Poetry describing the hard work of bees collecting honey

Bee

Solution This poem uses pure language to describe the natural phenomenon of bees collecting flowers and making honey for human enjoyment, embodying the author's cynical thoughts and feelings.

No matter the flat land or the top of the mountain,

The infinite scenery is occupied[1].

After harvesting the honey from hundreds of flowers,

For whom does it work hard and for whom does it taste sweet[2]?

Notes

[1] Zhan: To possess, to occupy. These two sentences say that bees take full advantage of the spring and work hard to collect honey everywhere.

[2] Wei (wèi Wei): to replace, to give.

Brief Analysis Whether it is on the flat ground or on the top of a mountain, wherever flowers bloom, they are occupied by bees. After they collect all the flowers and turn them into honey, who are they busy with in the end? For whom are you brewing fragrant honey?

This poem praises the noble character of bees for their hard work, and also metaphors the author's hatred and dissatisfaction with people who get something for nothing. This poem has several characteristics in terms of artistic expression: it wants to seize it, so it gives it to it, and it is powerful when it falls; it narrates and interrogates, and sings and sighs about emotion; its meaning is profound and can be interpreted in two ways.

This can be regarded as an allegorical poem. The bees in the poem are thousands of ordinary farmers in feudal society. They have worked hard for generations, but in the end the fruits of their labor were robbed by the rulers. "After gathering honey from a hundred flowers, for whom did you work hard and for whom is it sweet?" The concluding sentence uses a rhetorical question to illustrate that the bees who work hard to make honey have nothing to gain after working for months. This implies that the exploiters get something for nothing, which makes the moral of the poem Deep and powerful.