If I were a seed,
I should also break through the ground and grow up with weak strength:
This earth covered with hard rocks,
The water that helped me grow,
Wet soil wraps me and protects me,
Then, I came out of the ground,
Strong roots are buried deep in the soil that once protected me.
Why is there always firmness in my eyes?
Because I experienced the pain of growing up.
Introduction: I love this land is a modern poem written by the modern poet Ai Qing at 1938. This poem begins with "if" and describes the bird's voice with "hoarseness", and then continues to write the content of singing, from singing before death to writing that the bird's soul returns to the earth after death, and finally changes the image of the bird into the poet's own image, expressing the poet's sincere and warm patriotic feelings.
About the author: Ai Qing (1910-03-27-1996-05-05), formerly known as Jiang Zhenghan, was named Haicheng, and used the pen names A Jia, Ke Ya, Lin Bi, etc. , from Jinhua, Zhejiang. China's modern poet. He is regarded as one of the representative poets of China's modern poetry.
Theme: By describing that he lives in this land of the motherland, the author has more pain than joy, and there are too many "sorrows" and "angry winds blowing endlessly" in his heart; However, this is the motherland where he was born and raised. Even if he dies for her, he won't leave this land-even his feathers will rot in the land after his death. It expresses the author's greatest and deepest unforgettable and indelible patriotic feelings.
Artistic features: The land is a vast image, and the poet chooses it as the object of lyricism and pouring out, and its realm is extremely broad. But these feelings are all concentrated in 10 lines, which has achieved excellent artistic effect. First of all, this is because the author did not write from the real place, but from the imaginary place. He did not directly write about his relationship with the land, but imagined himself as a "bird", and used the relationship between the bird and the land to expand the artistic realm of the whole poem, making the overall structure of the whole poem look ingenious and natural. The "bird" in the poem is only a general term, which is symbolic, unlike in ancient poetry (such as cuckoo and partridge). Singing with a hoarse throat is an eye-catching, gripping and thought-provoking poem, and it is also a unique highlight in the whole poem to deepen the author's feelings for the land. Originally, the bird was beautiful and crisp, and there was no "hoarse" voice, but the author especially showed "singing with a hoarse throat" This is the tragic atmosphere at that time (in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War), the author's special personality and temperament, and the author's special expression needs. The aesthetic image produced by * * greatly enhances and strengthens the aesthetic expression of the image, from which we can feel that the author's love for the land is so persistent, loyal and tenacious: even in the face of such a land saturated with suffering, the author should love unconditionally and always do his best. Next, the author uses a montage-like close-up to introduce the objects he wants to sing in turn: land, river, wind and dawn. These are vast natural or cosmic images, which are dynamic and static, near and far, open and magnificent.