I should also sing with a hoarse throat:
This land hit by the storm,
This river of sadness and anger will surge forever,
This endless wind,
And the gentle dawn from the forest ...
And then I died,
Even feathers rot in the ground.
Why do I often cry?
Because I love this land deeply. ...
1938 1 1 month17th, Ai Qing is a singer of the land, and "land" is one of the two most common images in his poems (the other is "the sun"). "Land" symbolizes the troubled motherland that gave birth to him and raised him. Love for "land" is an inexhaustible melody in Ai Qing's works.
I love this land in1938165438+10. At that time, the country was in a national crisis, and the vicissitudes of the motherland were once again trampled by the Japanese aggressors. As a poet, Ai Qing firmly integrated into the torrent of national liberation struggle and became the "trumpeter" of the times. He said that he "fought for liberation as a tragic race." It shows Ai Qing's sincere love for the land. In order to express his sincere and deepest love for the land, the poet imagines himself as a "bird", flying tirelessly around the motherland forever and singing for the motherland forever, 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 the motherland to show your deep 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.
From the perspective of writing art, this poem is characterized by its short length and exquisite conception. Land is a vast image, and poets choose it as the object of expressing their feelings and confiding. 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. But he didn't lengthen the length of the poem, and didn't let the feelings of the poem wander. He just put it away.
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, making the whole structure of the whole poem appear ingenious and natural, which makes people unaware. Poetry begins with "if", which is novel, unique and convenient, and pushes the poetic realm to the virtual artistic realm. Of course, the bird in the poem. Different from those in ancient poems (such as cuckoo and crane pigeon), "singing at the top of one's lungs" is an eye-catching, exciting and thought-provoking poem, and it is also a peculiar highlight of deepening the poet's feelings for the land in the whole poem. This was the tragic atmosphere at that time (the early days of the Anti-Japanese War), the poet's special personality (Ai Qing called himself a "sad poet") and the poet's special expression needs. * * * The aesthetic image produced by the same action on the bird image greatly enhances and strengthens the aesthetic expression of the image-from which we can not only feel the breath of the times, the poet's personality and temperament, but also feel the poet's love for the land is so persistent, loyal and tenacious.
Next, the poet tells us who he wants to sing. In terms of methods, he used a close-up shot similar to a movie montage to introduce us to the objects he wanted to sing in turn: land, river, wind and dawn. These are broad natural or cosmic images, but the poet chose these typical images, which are extremely concise and vivid, but they can make us have rich imagination and association, causing deep meditation. It is worth pointing out that before "land, river, wind, dawn", the poet deliberately added adjectives or modifiers with emotional colors and turned them 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 hope that the earth was still growing, and hinted that the poet should make every effort to sing for them with fate. Even if you die, you should bury yourself in this land and enrich it with your own body. From the point of view of conception, here, the poet still sticks to the virtual image of "bird" ("even feathers rot in the land"), forming a strong contrast between life and death, showing 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.