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Modern poems by Sha Bai 1962, a modern poet in a water town. This is a pure pastoral poem. Once a poet visited a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, he expressed the whole process of visiting the water town in a poetic way, which made readers feel that the water town in the south of the Yangtze River was full of poetry. The whole poem is concise and elegant, full of wonderful life interest. This poem was selected as a Chinese textbook for primary schools in Hebei Education Edition.
This poem was written in March 1962. It was published in the second issue of Poetry Journal, 1962, and later included in the author's poetry collection "Apricot Flowers and Spring Rain in the South of the Yangtze River", which is one of the representative works of the author's early poems. At that time, poetry was still trapped in a strong political atmosphere and was mainly regarded as a tool of class struggle.
The trip to the water town is a pure pastoral landscape poem, without the sword and shadow of class struggle and the smell of gunpowder throughout. It was the lack of the "spirit of the times" advocated at that time, so it suffered some criticism. But as soon as it came out, it was welcomed by readers and became a famous article for a period of time.
Knowledge expansion:
This is a pure pastoral landscape poem, which describes the scenery of Jiangnan water town, but it is different from other landscape poems. Generally, there are few imaginations and metaphors in landscape poems, and this poem has almost none. What the poet describes for us is an objective and true pastoral scenery, simple, natural, beautiful and quiet, which can make people linger.
Contemporary poets and essayists recall Pearl's Small World: "A small poem is only because it realizes that it should return to poetry as the standard of poetry;" It is precisely because it does not depend on a certain political gasp that it presents its aesthetic value with an independent artistic life, and it can gain its own place among many aggressive "strong voices of the times", which is intriguing. "
Contemporary writer Huang Bangjun's Dictionary of China's New Poetry: "The whole poem presents a quiet, simple and beautiful water town genre painting. Poetry has a long artistic conception, well-trained words and strong melody. It's a good poem, easy to remember. "