"Motherland, My Dear Motherland" is one of Shu Ting's masterpieces. It is an affectionate patriotic song. Compared with similar poems in the past, it has distinctive characteristics of the times and personality - it contains both the confused pain and joyful hope of contemporary youth, as well as the daughter's true feelings of dissatisfaction and devotion to her mother Ai Ai, blending with deep and profound feelings. A sense of history and a strong sense of the times. The whole poem has novel ideas and sincere feelings, singing about the motherland from a unique perspective. In order to express this innocent affection, the poet adopts a rhythm from low and slow to high and fast. It is both weeping and complaining, sad and resentful, but also passionate and unrestrained, and moving forward indomitably. The whole poem uses the technique of interweaving and blending of subject and object to express the poet's sense of integration and dedication to the motherland.
(2) Guide to Studying the Method
When reading this poem, you must first pay attention to understanding the image connotation of "I" in the poem, and clarify the meaning of "I" and the motherland becoming one. relation. Secondly, it is also necessary to correctly understand the meaning of the many images that appear in the poems, and read Shu Ting's other poems outside of class to understand the characteristics of Shu Ting's poems that express her inner voice in euphemistic twists and turns.
(3) Aesthetic Appreciation
The beauty of ordinary and rich imagery
This poem aims to express the poet’s deep love for the motherland, and the choice of imagery is Novel and unique. The poet strives to select ordinary and distinctive images, and finds beauty in ordinary things that are not noticed by ordinary people. For example, "shabby old waterwheel" indicates the primitive and backward agricultural production methods. Likewise, the "blackened miner's lamp" is intended to represent the backwardness of industrial production methods. The two are connected, and it is not difficult to understand that the poet wants to use this image to illustrate that the motherland has been in a state of poverty and backwardness for a long time. Not only that, the poet also continuously used dense images such as "dry ears of rice", "disrepaired roadbed" and "barges in the silt" to form a group of images, which once again highlighted the poverty and backwardness of the motherland. The four image groups in the whole poem, through their progressive combination, not only express the development process of the motherland from suffering to rebirth, but also express the feelings of the young generation who have a special emotional process from confusion to deep thought to boiling. One voice.
(4) Breakthrough of key and difficult points
1. How should the image of "I" in the poem be understood? What specific connotation does it have?
[Analysis] On the surface, this question is to analyze an image in the poem. In fact, the connotation of the lyrical protagonist "I" in this poem is, to some extent, a part of the interpretation of this poem. The key helps to understand the thoughts and feelings expressed in the whole poem.
[Reference answer] In this poem, the sentence pattern "I am you..." or "I am..." appears repeatedly, emphasizing that "I" have gone through hardships and difficulties together with the motherland. Through the vicissitudes of life, "I" and the motherland are closely linked to each other in life and death. The image of "I" represents a generation of people who have the same fate as the Communist Party of China. Facing new historical opportunities, they will assume the historical responsibility of revitalizing China. The image of "I" is cast in the big image of the motherland.
2. Summarize other specific images that appear in this poem, analyze the characteristics of these images, and what kind of feelings does the author express towards the motherland through these images?
[Analysis] On the one hand, this question is for readers to understand the thoughts and feelings expressed in this poem. On the other hand, it once again deepens the understanding of the characteristics of poetry that use images to express emotions, express aspirations, and reason. understanding.
[Reference answer] Other specific images that appear in this poem include "shabby old waterwheel", "blackened miner's lamp", "withered ears of rice", "disrepaired roadbed" and " Barge on the Silt Bank.” These images together symbolize that the motherland has endured many hardships but still has strong vitality. Through these images, the author expresses his flesh-and-blood connection with the motherland, his feelings of honor, disgrace and passion, and expresses his strong patriotism and sense of historical responsibility.
3. Combine the whole poem to understand the specific symbolic meaning of the dotted images in the following test sentences in the poem.
(1) I am your dilapidated old waterwheel by the river.
(2) I am the blackened miner’s lamp on your forehead.
[Analysis] To understand the meaning given by poets to these objects, it is necessary to combine life experience and grasp the characteristics and directionality (modifiers) of objective things to understand. If there is a lack of correct analysis methods and Life experience is often difficult to understand.
[Reference Answer] "Waterwheel" represents the agricultural production method, while "shabby old waterwheel" represents the primitive and backward agricultural production method. "Blackened miner's lamp" represents the backwardness of industrial production methods. The two are connected, and this image symbolizes the long-term poverty and backwardness of the motherland.
4. Shu Ting’s poems often express her sincere feelings in euphemistic and tortuous lyrics. Please refer to the first and second stanzas of the poem to understand.
[Analysis] The same subject matter and the same purpose of writing often show vastly different appearances due to differences in authors. This is the author's creative personality and creative style. But precisely because of this, literature becomes even more charming.
[Reference answer] For example, in the first verse, "I am the dilapidated old waterwheel by your river, spinning tired songs for hundreds of years." The image of "old waterwheel" has experienced Despite the long years, "tired", it still maintains its tenacious vitality, reflecting the image of perseverance in hardships.
In the second stanza, the lines of poem "I am the painful hope of your ancestors, and the flower on Feitian's sleeves that has not fallen to the ground for thousands of years" express the Chinese people's repeated setbacks but never lose their hope. . The two stanzas of the poem describe the past of the motherland. Although they describe poverty and suffering, their emotions always flow with love, attachment and praise for the motherland.