I love this land.
This is a well-known lyric poem. The poet incarnates as a bird, singing with a hoarse throat and singing about our troubled country. Then it further describes the objects that birds sing ―― land, river, wind and dawn, all of which are images that have been hit by wind and rain for a long time, mixed with grief and indignation, and struggling.
In the second paragraph of the poem, the poet turned to my close-up, taking the tears in his eyes as a static close-up, showing the grief and pain that lingered in my heart for a long time. The last two sentences are the essence of the whole poem, and they are the confessions of all patriots' sincere feelings for the motherland in that era of suffering.
a tiger cowrie
A tiger shell given to Ai by a lady aroused the poet's emotion. The first eight lines of this poem use several metaphors to describe the appearance and texture of tiger-spotted shellfish, which makes people feel the image and texture of tiger-spotted shellfish. The last few words are not only related to the fate of tiger-spotted shellfish, but also to their own fate.
For many years, I have been at the bottom of despair/rolling in boundless waves/wearing jade armor/protecting the most vulnerable life//I never thought that I could see such beautiful sunshine if the accidental waves didn't bring me to the beach. It sums up the poet's painful experience for many years and the joy of returning to the sunshine later. The ingenious use of metaphor is the greatest feature of the whole poem.
The characteristics of Ai Qing's works:
1. Ai Qing's early poems pay attention to arousing emotions, exerting associations, capturing and selecting images, and condensing images by describing concrete and sensible things, forming one of the most remarkable features of early poetry art.
With revolutionary realism, he sang the sufferings and misfortunes of the land and people of the motherland deeply and gloomily, reflecting the tragic fate of the Chinese nation. At the same time, this poem inspired people in Qian Qian who didn't want to be slaves to fight bravely for the sacred land.
2. In poetic style: Before liberation, Ai Qing cursed the darkness and eulogized the light with deep, intense and unrestrained brushwork; After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he continued to praise the people, praise the light and think about life.
3. Ai Qing's works generally describe symbolic things such as the sun, torches and dawn, showing Ai Qing's hatred of darkness and terror in the old society and his yearning and pursuit of dawn, light and hope. Ai Qing, starting from his love for rural working people and approaching their demands, has been presenting his most authentic poems to them for more than ten years.