Tree is a modern poem written by the modern poet Ai Qing in the spring of 1940. The moral of this poem is various, because the images it uses can have many meanings. This poem describes a natural phenomenon on the surface; Broadly speaking, this poem may be a description and praise of friendship, a feeling and interpretation of life, and a yearning and reflection on free life. It is precisely because of the diversity of images that this poem has a thought-provoking charm. The lines of the whole poem are neat, quite in the style of modernist poetry.
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Creation background
The tree was written in the spring of 1940. At this time, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression has been going on for more than two years, and is turning into a difficult stalemate stage. This national war is giving all the people a baptism, making their souls undergo severe tempering in the war and gradually moving towards spiritual awakening. Ai Qing is deeply aware of the trend of the times and the pulse of society, and realizes that the national awakening has arrived.
To understand this poem, we need to know a historical fact, that is, foreigners insulted the Chinese nation in the past as "the sick man of East Asia" and "fragmented sand". Although this is not necessarily the whole truth, it does reflect the phenomenon that some national humiliation spirits have been distorted under the aggression of foreign powers.