The night gave me black eyes. What do you mean?

The Generation written by the modern poet Gu Cheng is a short poem with only two lines. It was written in April of 1979, published in the third issue of 1980 "Stars", and later included in the author's poetry collection "Black Eyes". The original poem is as follows:

The night gave me black eyes.

I use it to find the light.

Generation is a poem written by the unknown poet Gu Cheng in Beijing in 1979. This poem is one of the representative works of obscure poetry in the new period, which is widely circulated. It expresses the voice of a generation, and also entrusts the ideals and ambitions of a generation-the tenacious desire and persistent pursuit of "light" after "night".

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Gu Cheng, the author of this poem, is an important representative poet of China misty poetry school, and is called the contemporary "Zuo Ke Romantic" poet. Gu Cheng has high attainments in new poetry, old-style poetry and fable poetry. The phrase "The night gave me black eyes/I used them to look for light" of his generation became a classic sentence in China's new poems.

Gu Cheng 1956 was born in a poet's family, and his father was a famous poet Gu Gong. Gu Cheng/Kloc-started his writing career at the age of 0/7, contributing to various newspapers and magazines. 1987 began to travel to Europe for cultural exchange. 1988 lived in seclusion in Rapids Island, New Zealand, and lived a self-sufficient life. 1993, 10 year10.8, he killed his wife Xie Ye with an axe and hanged himself under a big tree. Xie Ye died later.

In the poetry generation, in the color contrast between night and light, all emotions are expressed through black eyes. A simple sentence can show that Gu Cheng has gradually grown into a strong young man in that dark society, and this young man's indomitable spirit of exploration will support him to cross the twisted dark society and find his own utopia of life.

This poem also fully embodies the artistic characteristics of Gu Cheng's poems in artistic techniques and is unique in the construction of images. Poets use images closely related to life feelings in their lives and express their fresh experiences of the world, life and life with unexpected combinations.

Two short poems summarize the psychological course of a generation and express the denial of dark politics and the yearning and pursuit of light. This poem strongly proves that poetry is the essence of art, its ideological content is highly concentrated and its artistic expression is highly purified, which makes it have strength and capacity that novels, essays and other styles do not have.

Reference materials? Baidu Encyclopedia-A Generation