After reading Ai Qing, I really realized the word "spirit". It is not necessarily a flame burning in the dark, nor is it necessarily the dawn when dawn comes. A person, a piece of paper and a pen are enough to show the spirit.
Just like fossil fish, it is always silent in the face of changes in external things, but it is not difficult to imagine how this fish swam happily in the water tens of thousands of years ago. This is the spirit and the soul. You can see rivers and lakes from fish bones, and you can also see spiritual light from people's eyes.
Ai Qing is so. It coincides with the alternation of old and new societies. In view of the darkness and terror of the old society, Ai Qing never stints his contempt and hatred, and pursues light and expectation with him. His spirit is the "morning star" to dispel the darkness; It is "to the sun" and yearns for sunshine; It is "spring", expecting perfection; It is snow lotus, which deals with the ugliness of human nature in a pure way. The world is dirty and I am lonely, and a fire is bright!
Why don't I want to have this spirit? Who doesn't want to have this soul?
When I was a child, I saw beggars in the street. There is no hope in the eyes, and there is no pursuit. I have also heard that some small vendors will open a big supermarket after consultation. I began to think about what people live on. After reading Ai Qing, I understand that people live in spirit. What a person does, no matter how great, can only affect the contemporary. And if it is his great spirit, it can affect a group of people for a lifetime. This is the power of spirit.
For Ai Qing, life is endless and fighting is endless, and his struggle with darkness will never end. For his spirit, it is his lifelong pursuit to drive away darkness and meet the light.
People in the new era, everyone should have such a soul!
As teenagers in the new era, they should have the courage and pursuit like Ai Qing. When chasing the light, don't forget to convey the dawn with your own spirit. At the same time, we should have a weather-beaten and indomitable soul. No matter whether we set foot on the top of the mountain or fall to the bottom, we should always remember that people are invincible as long as their spirit does not fall.
Notes on Ai Qing's Selected Poems 5
The Trumpeter is the most touching article I have ever seen in this book.
Trumpeters work harder than those soldiers who fight. Poems by Ai Qing:
"The trumpeter got up from the ground covered with straw. He didn't blame himself for sleeping in such wet mud. He tied his leg wrap lightly, washed his face with cold water, looked at his sleepy companion, and reached out and took his horn with him. It's still dark outside, and the dawn hasn't come yet. "
See that they are the first people to be awakened by the dawn. Before dawn, they sounded the dawn of new expectations with bronze horns soaked in blood.
He didn't complain. He even thought it was a sacred thing. He looked at the mountain, breathed the fresh air, and then blew the brass horn, but who can understand that behind this loud horn is the pain of the trumpeter.
"When he rubs the copper skin of the horn with his own breath to make it sound, there are often bloodshot eyes that are too thin to see and fly out with the horn ..."
In this poem, he created for us the image of a bugler and a bronze horn soaked with blood in the historical square of China, so that we can still clearly hear the horn that awakened a nation and inspired it to forge ahead courageously today, and also showed Ai Qing's patriotic feelings.
Ai Qing's poems make people sad.