The mountains are high and the roads are far away (Wang Guozhen) Calling is the burst of silence. Silence is a silent call. No matter whether it is exciting or not, I pray as long as it is not dull. If the distance calls me, I will go to the distance. If the mountains call me, I will go to the mountains with my feet. If it is worn out, just let the setting sun smear the path. If your hands are scratched, let the thorns turn into cuckoos. There is no road longer than feet, and there are no mountains higher than people. (Excerpted from "Dialogue with Wang Guozhen", International Culture Publishing Company, 1991 edition) "The Mountain is High" The author Wang Guozhen was born in Beijing in 1956. He began to publish poems in the early 1980s, and has successively published poetry collections "Youth Tide", "Youth Thoughts", "Young Wind", "Dialogue with Wang Guozhen", "Selected Collection of Wang Guozhen's Lyric Poems", and his autobiography "Wang Guozhen Monologues", etc. . Wang Guozhen's poems are read by a large number of young people, setting off a moderate "Wang Guozhen craze", known as the "Wang Guozhen phenomenon". Commentators are divided on this phenomenon. But it is a fact that his person and poems once conquered young readers. Wang Guozhen's poems are pure, free and elegant, with philosophical meaning and speculative color. This was nothing short of a breath of fresh air in a climate where a hazy poetic style had brought sluggishness and decline to the literary world.
"High Mountains and Long Roads" can be called Wang Guozhen's masterpiece of poetry. This poem expresses an enterprising, persistent, optimistic, and self-confident emotion, and expresses the fighting, forging ahead, high-spirited, and upward spirit of contemporary youth, as well as those idle moaning sounds, and those empty and boring rhetoric. Poetry draws a clear line. It inspires people and gives them healthy and upward spiritual guidance, so it has won the love of the majority of young people. In terms of lyrical style, it is not like "Misty Poetry" that relies on words with difficult meanings or even exaggerated and deformed images to express emotions. Instead, it mainly relies on figurative discussions to express emotions. Discussion is the main lyrical method here, but it is different from dry preaching. It turns abstract thinking into novel and beautiful images, implying emotions in the discussion of images. For example, "My feet are worn out/I'd better let the setting sun smear the path/My hands are scratched/I'm going to let the thorns turn into cuckoos. This is about the hardships and twists and turns encountered in the struggle. My feet are worn out, and blood is sprinkled on the path; my hands are scratched Rotten and blood-stained thorns, this is a portrayal of a struggler, but the author turns pain and even suffering into beautiful images; the brilliant sunset and beautiful cuckoos express an attitude of contempt for suffering and overcoming it with optimism.
In terms of writing method, it is different from "misty poems" that allow people to interpret the meaning of poetry like guessing puzzles. Instead, it uses simple and plain language to make the poems clear and easy to understand and easy to be accepted by readers. Plainness is not plain, just like the author. In the pursuit of life, he dislikes being diligent and promising, and he also strives to avoid plain writing in his writing, looking for the "poetry eye". : "There is no road longer than feet/no mountain higher than people." The mountain is high and the road is long, but everyone can reach it. It also vividly and implicitly reveals the subjective initiative of people. A kind of spirit, an optimistic, enterprising, persistent and confident attitude towards life. The language of poetry is condensed and full of philosophical meaning - the poem is not about being gorgeous and brilliant throughout, but what is needed is such vigilance; such vigilant sentences are not there. Many, it is enough for a poem to have one sentence like this.