Author: Han Niu
In Guilin
In a small zoo
I see a tiger.
I squeezed into the chattering crowd,
Separated by two iron fences
Give it to the tiger in the cage
Looking around for a long time,
But I've never seen it.
The gorgeous face of the tiger
Eyes are like flames.
Tiger in a cage
Turn your back on the timid and desperate audience,
Lying quietly in the corner,
Someone threw stones at it.
Someone slapped it hard.
Some people are still trying to persuade.
It ignores everything!
A long thick tail.
Long and fluttering,
Oh, tiger, tiger in cage,
Have you ever dreamed of a vast forest?
Is it a humiliating heart twitch?
Or do you want to beat those poor and ridiculous audiences with your tail?
Your strong legs
Extending in all directions,
I see every toe and paw of yours.
It's all broken,
Condensed with thick blood!
Your toes and claws
Be tied up by someone
Is it alive?
Or because of grief and indignation?
You used the same broken tooth
I heard that your teeth were sawed off by a hacksaw.
Bite them off with blood. ...
I saw it in an iron cage
On the gray concrete wall
There are bloody canyons here.
As bright as lightning!
I finally understand. ...
I left the zoo in shame,
Hear a voice in a trance
A groundbreaking roar,
Have an unruly heart
Skim over my head
Fly away,
I saw the flame mark.
Eyes are like flames,
And huge, broken, bloody toes and claws!
65438+June 0973
(Selected from the February issue of Poetry Journal 1982)
The author of South China Tiger, formerly known as Shi, was born in Dingxiang, Shanxi, 1923. Poetry creation began in the 1940s, and it is an important member of the "July" poetry school. He has published poems such as Colorful Life, Motherland, Love and Song, Hot Springs and Butterflies on the Sea, and selected works such as Earthworms and Feathers. During the Cultural Revolution, Han Niu's poems suddenly rose from grief and indignation, and he wrote many poems. These works "left us with a painful and lofty mental outlook of an era". Although Han Niu's poems are few in number, they can "write a little about life", and the conception is very clever.
The poem "South China Tiger" was written in June 1973, showing the specific time and space of "ten years of turmoil". This is an era that imprisons life and stifles animal spirits. With a sensitive heart, the poet strongly felt this kind of sadness and suffering, and at the same time felt the unyielding soul and tenacious struggle spirit of every warm-blooded China people to break away from imprisonment and yearn for freedom. In his poems, the poet endowed this kind of pain and blood to a living body-the imprisoned South China Tiger.