Mowing child Ai Qing
The setting sun burned the grassland red. The mowing child mowed the grass silently, bowed his head, bent over and set off in a hurry.
Move slowly from side to side.
Grass has covered his little body-in the grass we only see:
A bamboo basket full of grass, a few piles of grass, a sickle shining with golden light in the sunset.
"The Child Cutting the Grass" shows the characteristics of "painting in poetry" incisively and vividly.
This poem does not seem to use any skills, but simply writes the mowing scene of "mowing children" truthfully. No exaggeration, no exaggeration, no symbol, simple as grass.
The poet only chose a picture of a child mowing the grass, and left nothing else written, which is a very high skill in itself. "Eliminating redundancy and preserving thinness" is an important technical requirement as well as an aesthetic requirement.
Red sunset, green grass, golden sickle, bright colors; Children (bamboo baskets, sickles) are points, the route of mowing is lines, the grassland is surfaces, and the composition is harmonious and rich; The whole poem contrasts the smallness of children with the spacious and beautiful atmosphere, and the feelings are touching.
In poetry, "red", "grassland (green)" and "golden light" are colors; Cutting grass, bamboo baskets and sickles, moving slowly from one side to the other, are dotted lines in the picture; "Grassland" and "sunset" are the background of composition. Through the combination of these images, the author presents the picture of children mowing grass to people.