To deeply feel and understand this poem, we must first understand the land complex in Ai Qing's poems and the multiple symbolic meanings of land in Ai Qing's poems. Ai Qingsheng was born in rural land, grew up in rural land, and grew up sucking the milk of the peasant woman Daye River (Daye River), from rural land to cities, and then to France to study. After returning home, he wants to plant dreams and hopes on the land of the motherland with great enthusiasm. However, what is presented to him is poverty, backwardness and ignorance. The storm of war is constantly attacking the land of the motherland, especially the Japanese invaders trample and trample on the iron hoof of the land of the motherland. The poet's heart is always implicated in the suffering land and people. Shortly after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, on the night of February 28th, 1938, he wrote Snow on the Land of China. The poem is divided into four parts, each of which runs through the central sentence of "Snow falls on the land of China, and cold hinders China", and the disaster brought by war is repeatedly seen from many angles: "In the areas gnawed by bonfires, countless land cultivators/lost livestock/lost fertile land/crowded in desperate and dirty alleys of life." The poet sighed bitterly and angrily: "The road in China is so rugged/muddy." "The pain and disaster in China is as vast and long as this snowy night!" In the poem "Trolley", the poet stood on the yellow land in the north, saw the deep ruts criss-crossing like whip marks, and heard the sharp whistle of the trolley when the patient struggled. His heart felt heart-wrenching pain for the suffering land and people struggling on it, and felt that the gray-yellow land and the deep ruts carved on it were "intertwined/the sorrow of the people in the north". From these poems, we can feel the poet's deep affection for the mother earth, the nation and the people. When the anti-Japanese bonfire approached the Yellow River and the alarm of national peril continued to roar in the poet's mind, Ai Qing was in the ancient Tongguan, looking around the sad north, with tears in his eyes, and wrote a melancholy, thoughtful, desolate and tragic song "In the North". This poem not only faithfully describes the profound disaster brought to the north by the Japanese war of aggression, but also expresses the poet's deep anxiety about the fate of the motherland and deep sympathy for the people in the war, and even expresses the poet's loyalty and love for this barren land: "I love this sad land,/the endless desert/which also arouses my reverence." "I love this sad land,/its vast and barren land/it brings us simple language/and vastness. /I love this sad country/this country/I have raised the hardest/oldest nation in the world that I love. " At this critical moment of national peril, the poet's eulogy of the land is undoubtedly inspiring people to establish firm beliefs and unyielding will. This is the poet's faith, loyalty and love for the land. It can be seen that the land image has been integrated into the poet's life and soul. It is the mother of life, the mother of the motherland, the symbol of national spirit, Chinese civilization, the destiny of the motherland, China history, national cohesion, people's will and strength. In a word, the land image embodies the poet's extremely complex emotional information and ideological information.
Because of this, land has become an eternal complex in the poet's works. Land is the object of poet's eternal attachment, talk, loyalty and praise. All these complex emotions come together, and finally the poet has a strong desire; To be the most loyal singer of the land, this famous poem "I love this land" was born.
This poem was written in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, which concentrated Ai Qing's sincere love for the land. Between the smallness and brevity of individual life and the vastness and eternity of life on the earth, the poet imagines himself as a "bird" in order to express his sincere and deep love for the land, flying tirelessly around the motherland forever, singing endlessly for the motherland, not only singing the suffering and indignation of the earth, but also singing the joy and hope of the earth; Even if you die, you should melt your whole body into the land of your motherland to show your love for the land. The whole poem has a strong and restrained feeling and a deep and melancholy tone. It can be said that the combination of the projection of the times and true feelings makes this poem's feelings extremely sincere, more infectious and more resonant for readers.
Judging from the art of writing, this poem is characterized by its short length and ingenious conception. Land is a vast image, and poets choose it as the object to express their feelings and pour out their feelings. Its realm is extremely broad and its images are extremely rich. The poet's feelings are multi-angle and multi-level, and the poet's imagination and poetic thinking are infinitely free and broad. However, he did not lengthen the length of the poem and let the feelings of the poem wander. But in the line 10, the poet's profound love for the land is concentrated, and the best artistic effect is achieved.
The poet writes not from the real place, but from the imaginary place. He imagines himself as a "bird" and develops the artistic realm of the whole poem through the relationship between the bird and the land, which makes the whole structure of the whole poem appear ingenious and natural, making people unaware. Poetry begins with "if", which is novel and unique, convenient for turning people into birds and pushing the poetic realm to the virtual artistic realm. Of course, the "bird" in the poem is only a general term, which is symbolic, unlike the ancient poems (such as cuckoo, crane pigeon, etc. "Singing with a hoarse throat" is an eye-catching, gripping and thought-provoking poem, and it is also a unique highlight in the whole poem to deepen the poet's feelings for the land. This is the tragic atmosphere of the times at that time (the early days of the Anti-Japanese War), the poet's special personality temperament (Ai Qing called himself a "sad poet") and the poet's special expression needs. , and the aesthetic image produced by the combination of * * *. It greatly enhances and strengthens the aesthetic expression of images-from which we can not only feel the breath of the times, the poet's personality and temperament, but also feel that the poet's love for the land is so persistent, loyal and tenacious.
Next, the poet tells us who he wants to sing. From the perspective of sentence structure, parallelism is used; In terms of methods, he used a close-up shot similar to a movie montage, and introduced to us the objects he wanted to sing in turn: land, river, wind and dawn. These are broad images of nature or the universe, but the poet chose these typical images, which are extremely concise and vivid, but they can make us have rich imagination and association and cause deep meditation. It is worth pointing out that the poet deliberately added emotional adjectives or modifiers before "land, river, wind and dawn", so that they were all transformed into symbolic and suggestive pictures, which not only hinted at the troubled fate of the motherland, but also hinted at the indomitable people and the growing hope on the earth, and also hinted that the poet should try his best to win them with fate. Even if you die, you should bury yourself in this land and enrich it with your body. From the perspective of conception, the poet still sticks to the virtual image of "bird" ("even feathers rot in the land"), which makes a strong contrast between life and death, and shows the bird's persistence and sincere love for the land in the comparison, thus artistically shaping the image of a singer who is loyal to the land.
The second feature of this poem is its ingenious transformation, which creates a new poetic realm. It stands to reason that it is very difficult to express poetry after its climax. However, the poet skillfully broke a line, separated a line, made the necessary intermission and pause, began a clever transformation, and wrote the ending of two lines with a prominent image, further sublimating his feelings. It makes people feel excited, unforgettable and memorable after reading it.
First, the lyric perspective has changed. The first paragraph of the poem is to imagine from a virtual angle, that is, from the perspective of birds, showing the loyalty and love of birds to the land, which seems implicit; The second section has changed to a realistic perspective, that is, from the poet's own point of view, he wrote his "tearful eyes" and poured out his "deep" love for the land, which is a straightforward expression. In this way, the combination and correspondence of the virtual and the real creates an internal and complete artistic space of the whole poem; The correlation and contrast between the result and the reason constitute the internal logical structure that supports the whole poem.
Second, the writing techniques have changed. The previous section used comparison, which is the realm of imagination; The latter paragraph uses fu, which is a realistic expression of the mind. The whole poem turns from the montage-like picture suggestion in front to the direct guidance of the poet behind, and ends with strong emotional expression, thus introducing the reader's attention into a rich emotional atmosphere and feeling the poet's loyalty and love for the land again.