Attachment: On the desolation and sadness in Gu Cheng's poems
Gu Cheng's poems give people a different feeling from the beginning, like a child, but the child is sad. Everyone says he is a fairy tale poet, but I read a lot of helplessness, desolation and sadness in his poems. What impressed me the most was the poem Bubble: two free bubbles/rising from the depths of the dream sea .../misty silver fog/dispersed in the breeze/I hugged you like a child/vainly tried to bring the bubbles back to the real land. Gu Cheng has been doing this kind of work all his life, bringing bubbles to real land. He knew it was futile, but he couldn't stop himself. The greatest sorrow of people is not knowing that it is futile, but knowing that it is futile and still being done. Gu Cheng is such a person. He knows what kind of reality this is and that reality will not accept his dreams and fantasies, but he still can't live without his dreams and the pure and beautiful paradise that he has been longing for. It is this situation that can't bring the bubble back to the real earth that has created such a poet Gu Cheng, whose poems are full of desolation and sadness.
Gu Cheng has a very small and famous poem called "A Generation": The night gave me black eyes/but I used them to look for light. Perhaps this poem can be used as a portrayal of Gu Cheng's life. The poet did this, but he didn't find the light and was swallowed up by the darkness. The night gave me black eyes, which I used to look for light. I look very "sunny" and optimistic. The poet is happy with this situation and is not afraid of reality. Actually, it's not. This is just the surface of the poem When I first read this poem, I felt a dull pain in my heart. It's like a hopeless struggle and hopeless search. You can only find darkness in the darkness, where can you find light? The poet is not ignorant, but helpless. He shouldn't wait to be swallowed up by darkness, but should take the initiative to look for it, for fear of finding nothing. At least in life, "I" is active and "I" is struggling. It is impossible for you to enslave me, and I would rather be broken as soon as possible. I think this is the poet's mood. He is fighting against the darkness and refuses to cooperate with reality and darkness. Gu Cheng is using poetry, a desolate and sad poem, to interpret a way of life. For example, he said, "People can be born as beautiful as ants."
Gu Cheng is very stubborn. He clung to those impossible dreams and indulged in his own. He likes to wear a tall hat made of jeans legs. He said that he would feel safe. He refused to be assimilated into life. He has always insisted that "life has nothing to do with life" and "life has only instruction and life has only feelings". Gu Cheng is a pure man and has not been polluted by the world. He fell from the sky like a snowflake disappearing into the air, leaving people with endless reverie. Such a person is a sad person in the eyes of laymen. He came to a world where he shouldn't have come, and he was never understood. Gu Cheng has a poem "Resume". In the first sentence of the poem, the poet admits: "I am a sad child/I have never grown up." Why does the author say that he is a sad child and has never grown up? It is precisely because the poet is incompatible with this society that others see me as a sad child, unable to integrate into society, and therefore unable to grow up. What is the sad child doing? I don't know why, when I read this poem, I always associate indifference with the desert, and a wrong artistic conception arises: "The desert is dusty and looks like floating smoke from a distance, and a lonely child is telling a green story to the smoke." I know this is a wrong daydream, but this poem gives me a feeling full of desolation and sadness. No matter how the author finally tries to change this tone, it is useless. It's always gray. Just like the song "Feeling" from Gu Cheng gave me the same feeling. "The sky is gray/the road is gray/the building is gray/the rain is gray/two children/one is bright red/the other is light green." "Bright red" means blood refers to life, "light green" means plants refer to nature, and it is surrounded by gray. The whole world is gray, bright red and faint.