I am your shabby old waterwheel by the river.
Old songs that have been spun for hundreds of years.
I am a miner's lamp with your forehead blackened.
When you grope in the tunnel of history.
I am a withered ear of rice; This is a roadbed that is in disrepair.
This is a barge on the beach.
Draw the rope deep
Pull it into your shoulder
-the motherland!
I am very poor.
I am sad
I am your ancestor.
Painful hope.
It's a flying sleeve.
Flowers that never fall to the ground for thousands of years
-Motherland
I am your brand-new ideal.
Just broke free from the mythical spider web.
I am the germ of your ancient lotus under the snow.
I am your tearful smile.
I am the newly painted white starting line.
This is crimson dawn.
Spraying
-Motherland
I am one billionth of you.
Is the sum of your 9.6 million square meters.
With your scarred breasts,
raise
Lost me, considerate me, boiling me.
And then from my flesh and blood
get
Your richness, your glory, your freedom.
-Motherland
My dear motherland!
"Motherland, My Dear Motherland" is one of Shu Ting's representative works, and it is an affectionate patriotic song. Compared with similar poems in the past, it has distinct characteristics and personality of the times-both the confused pain and happy hope of contemporary youth, and the true feelings of daughter's dissatisfaction and dedication to the motherland, blending with a deep sense of history and a strong sense of the times. The whole poem has novel ideas and sincere feelings, and sings the motherland from a unique angle. In order to express this deep feeling, the poet adopted a rhythm from low to high. Like crying and complaining, like sorrow and complaining, passionate and indomitable. The whole poem uses the method of alternate blending of subject and object, expressing the poet's blending consciousness and dedication to the motherland.
Shu Ting is one of the representative poets of misty poetry. Her "Motherland, My Dear Motherland" was written in the first spring when China entered the new period of reform and opening up. To read this poem aloud, we must first understand the image connotation of "I" in the poem and clarify the relationship between "I" and the motherland. Secondly, it is necessary to correctly understand the meanings of many images in poems, and combine with reading other poems of Shu Ting after class to understand the characteristics of euphemistic twists and turns in Shu Ting's poems.
There are four image group in this poem. Through their progressive combination, it not only expresses the development process of the motherland from suffering to rebirth, but also expresses sympathy for the younger generation with a special emotional process from confusion to deep thinking to boiling. Poetry first suppresses and then promotes, just like a multi-part symphony, showing a language rhythm from soothing to urgent, from low to high. The dignified emotion expressed by the novel image is the key point to appreciate the whole poem.
In the first section, the poet traces the centuries-old history of poverty and backwardness of the motherland with deep sadness and euphemistic twists and turns. The poet summed up the long-term poverty and backwardness of the motherland with dense images such as "shabby old waterwheel" and "black miner's lamp"
The second part describes the people's pain and hope. The motherland and people have not lost hope because of "poverty", but hope has been too slim for a long time, like the flowers in the sleeves of "flying", which are beautiful and attractive and have not yet fallen to the ground.
The third section depicts the image of the motherland at a turning point in history with a set of images. The new motherland has stood on the "snow-white starting line".
The fourth section once again emphasizes the inseparable relationship between "I" and the motherland. The "lost" and "contemplative" poet was full of blood, and she poured out her desire to devote herself to the motherland in heartfelt language.
There is not a word in the whole poem, which is described by images and runs through with emotions. The selected image is concise, vivid, unique and appropriate, and every word is closely related to the described scene. Lyricism is not an unobstructed view, but pays great attention to its ups and downs, from sadness, low to joy, high, from excitement to deep, tangled with a variety of complex and dignified feelings such as sadness, anxiety, fierceness, disappointment and hope, sigh and pursuit, which embodies the poet's unique euphemistic, deep, soft and meaningful lyric personality.