In the first 13 lines of this poem, the poet denies the traditional view of love with six images: climbing Campbell flowers, spoony birds, fountains, dangerous peaks, sunshine and spring rain; 14 ~ 36 lines positively express their ideal view of love. "To Oak" was selected by People's Education Publishing House as a Chinese textbook for senior high schools, Zhengzhou University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and other universities.
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Although Shu Ting said To the Oak is not a love poem, more readers are willing to appreciate it as a love poem.
Through the artistic technique of overall symbol and the inner monologue from "kapok" to "oak tree", this poem enthusiastically and frankly sings his own personality ideal and love view, which requires standing shoulder to shoulder, independence and affection.
It can be seen that the poet has carefully designed when choosing the materials for poetry creation: oak is so suitable to represent the masculine beauty of men, while kapok is so suitable to represent women's self-reliance and equality with men. As soon as this poem was born, oak and kapok became a new group of images in China's love poems.
At the beginning of this poem, two hypotheses and six negative metaphors are used to express her love view: she doesn't want to climb on the other side and show off her vanity by the other side's prosperity; I don't want to drown in each other's indifferent shadows and sing unrequited love songs alone.