-read Ceng Zhuo's "The Tree on the Cliff"
Li Xiaobo
The author condenses life into a tree and tells people with this unique metaphor: life is like a tree, destined to bear many storms alone, and the key to a happy ending is that we have enough perseverance and courage to fight and fight!
Throughout the poem, the author doesn't seem to have much sadness or joy. The scenery and lyricism are plain and eloquent, but they are fresh and natural to read. It seems that he has realized the true meaning of life.
Appreciate;
If your life is on a cliff, how should you face it? Then be this tree: fly in adversity!
Ceng Zhuo began to write poetry at the age of seventeen, and he was one of the "July School" poets who were active in the poetry circle during the Anti-Japanese War. Before liberation, a collection of poems "Door" and a long poem "Mother" were published, which truly recorded the arduous course of intellectual youth in the rear area during the Anti-Japanese War. 1955 was forced to stop writing because of the "Hu Feng incident", and finally resumed the political life in the new era and picked up a new pen to sing for the new era. Tree on the Cliff, a collection of poems published by 198 1, has a great influence because it can sincerely reveal its emotional and spiritual world. Reading these unpretentious poems, we can feel the loneliness and pain of a soldier who was abandoned by the collective, and we can also feel the joy and excitement after being accepted again. So that we can imagine the small waves aroused in his emotional world and philosophical field.
Sincere feelings and vivid images are the main features of Ceng Zhuo's poems. His masterpiece "The Tree on the Cliff" takes a "tree about to fall into a deep valley" as a symbol of interest, and creates an unyielding warrior image who is attacked by strong winds and stubbornly lives near the cliff. Although the tree on the edge of the cliff was blown to the cliff near the deep valley by "I don't know what strange wind" and its body was bent into the shape of the wind, it was lonely and painful, but it was still like "spreading its wings and flying" ... Obviously, this tree is a symbol of countless aggrieved revolutionaries. The absurd years and strange things have left a deep imprint on the poet's mind, so the poet, with a strong sense of history and the times, melted into his childlike innocence and sang this bitter and deep song.
Poetry is actually the reappearance and visualization of the poet's soul. From this perspective, the tree on the cliff also shows the upright and upright character of the poet Ceng Zhuo. He has always maintained his integrity as a thinker and poet, which is particularly important for poets in today's materialistic era. Only pure land poets who protect their souls can create noble poems. However, many poets have lost or deformed this kind of ethics, and regard debauchery or playing the muse as a fashion, which makes the creation of hymns increasingly secular and superficial. Because of this, it is more necessary to review the character and personality of the old poet.
The lonely images of "the tree on the edge of the cliff", "standing there alone" and "looking lonely and stubborn" first enter the readers' minds, giving them vivid impressions and broad imagination space. Ai Qing, an old poet, said that "there is no poem without imagination" and that "the most important talent of a poet is to use imagination" (Ai Qing on Poetry), but a poet can have noble and vivid imagination only if he has integrity and high artistic accomplishment. This "tree" is like a lonely old man who has gone through many vicissitudes. He has suffered all kinds of grievances and tempering, "it seems that he is about to leap into the deep valley", but he "seems to be flying." A soaring image, not a person who is full of longing and hope, loyal and trusting in the future, is unimaginable. As the famous poet Zhao Guotai said, this involves a question of "the poet's moral image". This "virtue" requires the poet's spirit to rise to the realm of truth, goodness and beauty.
Many excellent poets. It is known to the world for its unique moral image, such as Ai Qing's "torch" image and Gong Liu's "camel" image, while Mr. Ceng Zhuo's moral image is an "old sailor" as stubborn as a tree on the edge of a cliff. As teacher Zhao Guotai commented on Zeng Lao in a short article, "The order of life once gnawed at his muse with huge teeth, but his morality was in his chest. He faced up to social life, cast his eyes to the end of the world, and called for lofty ideals with his body temperature voice." I used to quote "tree" as a moral image, meaning that it suffered a great blow in all aspects of body and mind. We will not sink, we will not compromise, and we will still face life, history and future with a fiery heart. Let the latecomers have a "lesson from the past" and point out the direction for them. This is the power of the poet's pride.
In the poem "The Tree on the Cliff", the "tree" is just a starting point, in which the poet's rich life feelings are integrated, which gives people inspiration, profound association and understanding. In this respect, Mr. Ceng Zhuo also showed the edge of a thinker. Let people see alarming and enlightening thoughts from specific poems. Reading this poem makes us deeply realize that there is no obvious gap between poetry and thinking, and we can find hidden philosophical thinking through the image of the poem. The view that poetry and reason are absolutely opposite can only lead to superficial content and shallow thinking of poetry.
That tree stands there alone/looks lonely and stubborn, which is not only the image of an innocent revolutionary in distress, but also the image of the poet Ceng Zhuo's aloof and fiery character and character. It is with this spiritual outlook that Zeng Lao was able to withstand the wind and rain and write one poem after another as fresh and philosophical as a tree on a cliff.