What poems did Ba Jin write?

According to Ba Jin's chronicle, when Ba Jin came to Shanghai to study in 1923, he published three short poems in Women magazine. So I went to the Shanghai Library and finally found this book, Volume 9 of Women's Magazine,No. 10, which was published by Shanghai Commercial Press in June 10. Carefully open the slightly yellow pages, and sure enough, in the poetry special edition behind, I saw three poems written by the signature "Pei Gan" (the pseudonym of Ba Jin): life, loneliness and night flight. These three poems are very short, adding up to only 1 1, but they are a true portrayal of Ba Jin's thoughts and feelings when he left his hometown of Chengdu for the first time. He wrote in the poem:

Undeveloped-budding;

Will open-open;

What has opened-withered;

This flower spent her life peacefully.

-Life

A plum blossom that had been pierced died in the basin.

Her life is so lonely!

-"Loneliness"

Ba Jin was born in a closed and backward feudal family in Chengdu. What I have been exposed to since childhood is the darkness of society, the corruption of politics, the intrigue between people in large families, and the cruelty of feudal ethics to people. All this caused great pressure and made young Ba Jin feel depressed, lonely and sad. Life is a description of his feelings. There is also "a plum blossom that has been pierced died in the pot ..." People can't help but think of the tragic experience of "Mei" in Home, which reflects Ba Jin's deep sympathy for countless young men and women persecuted by feudal ethics and his disgust, accusation and resistance to feudal autocracy. He doesn't want to be lonely. He longed for out of the dark, leaving this big family which he called "dark autocratic kingdom" to explore the truth and run towards the light. 1923 In May, he and his third brother Lin Yao decided to leave Chengdu and go to Shanghai to study. "An ideal waved to me in front, and my eyes brightened."

"I saw a red light flashing in the distance. I don't know where the light is, but it pulls my heart as if someone is leading the way. " When the scenery of his hometown disappeared from sight, he looked at the boat for a long time and touched the scenery, and conceived the poem "Night Sailing":

It's dusk. In this foggy river,

Where on earth is our ship going?

Far red light,

Please come closer!

In this poem, Ba Jin regards "far red light" as a symbol of light and future, and as a symbol of life navigation mark. As he later said in the preface to Riptide: "I am still young, I want to live, and I want to conquer life. I know that the torrent of life will never stop, see where it takes me! " This poem just shows his positive attitude towards life.

After Ba Jin came to Shanghai, he was admitted to Nanyang Middle School with his third brother Lin Yao. When these three poems were published, he was living in the second grade of Nanyang Middle School. Nanyang Middle School is a famous private school in Shanghai. It is located in the suburb of Rihui Port. It has a beautiful campus, excellent education and complete facilities, including teaching buildings, dormitories, physical and chemical laboratories and a well-known library in Shanghai. The management of students is relatively loose, and students are encouraged to be independent and self-reliant. Entering such an environment, Ba Jin, who is far away from home, has a stable place to stay and study. On the one hand, he studied foreign languages hard and read Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and olivier K, and on the other hand, he continued to engage in literary creation, so he edited and published the above three short poems when he came to Shanghai.