Reef is a new poem written by modern poet Ai Qing 1954 in July. Through this poem, the poet expressed his sincere praise for this tenacious life, and also deeply inspired the people of the motherland in various difficulties and oppression. The language of this poem is concise, using the methods of comparison and analogy, with a calm and objective description, taking the narrative perspective of onlookers as the outline of the image, leaving the meaning or feelings to the readers to experience, which is very poetic.
Reef is a short poem by Ai Qing, with only two sections and eight sentences. However, this short lyric poem, which consists of eight sentences, uses a variety of writing techniques such as comparison and symbolism to create a song-like melody, picturesque scenery, infinite imagination and profound meaning. From the perspective of sound language, this poem adopts "free verse", and from the perspective of sound characteristics, it does not pay attention to the rules of old-fashioned poems such as antithesis, leveling and rhyming.
However, its voice is not completely without rhythm. For example, the word "Lang" in the first sentence of the first section can be regarded as "homonym with different meanings", which has the same rhyme with the word "sample" at the end of the second sentence of the second section, and is different from the word "foreign" at the end of the fourth sentence, but it is still the same rhyme, thus forming the rhyme of a certain period.
Judging from the sentence pattern of the poem, its length is relatively free, but the longest sentence "Every wave is at the foot" is only nine words, and the shortest sentence "One wave, one wave" is six words. Other sentences feel that the number of words is in the middle and relatively neat, which embodies what Mr. Wen Yiduo called "the architectural beauty of poetry." This branched and relatively neat sentence pattern makes us see the difference between it and prose and novel sentence patterns at a glance.
Brief introduction of Ai Qing
Ai Qing (19 10-1996), formerly known as Qu Qiubai, was born in Huangpi, Hubei. Ai Qing is a famous writer, poet and cultural celebrity in modern China. He has an important position in China's literary world, and is known as a poet who is "worthy of the grinding needle of the nation".
Ai Qing's creation covers poetry, prose, novel, drama and other literary forms. His works inherit the spirit of struggle, lyricism and criticism, and are full of thoughts and expressions about people's life, social reality and historical destiny. His poetry works are often full of passion, strength and musicality, with vivid images and unique language style. His prose works show his careful observation and deep thinking about life.