Poetically, the road taken by revolutionaries is tightly locked by the enemy, while the road to surrender to betray the revolution and act as a shameful traitor is open. The reactionaries shouted at the top of their lungs: surrender! Give you freedom! I long for freedom, but I deeply understand how a real revolutionary gets freedom by selling out the revolution! I hope that one day, the torch of revolution will burn me with the prison of reactionaries, and I should gain eternal life in the struggle between blood and fire.
Original Prison Song (copied according to the author's handwriting)
The doors that people come in and out are locked,
The hole the dog climbed was open,
A voice shouted:
Climb out and set you free!
I long for freedom,
But I also know—
How can a person's body crawl out of a dog hole!
I can only hope,
That day-
The underground fire burns rapidly,
Burn this living coffin with me,
I deserve to live forever in fire and blood!
Writing background
Ye Ting, the author, was illegally arrested by the Kuomintang during the Southern Anhui Incident. He was imprisoned in Shangrao, Jiangxi, Enshi, Hubei and Guilin, Guangxi, and finally transferred to the concentration camp of China-US Institute of Special Technical Cooperation in Chongqing. In prison, Ye Ting suffered all kinds of inhuman torture, but remained faithful and unyielding. In the face of all kinds of inducements from the Kuomintang, he showed the integrity of a producer. He wrote this poem on the prison wall and was widely read by later generations.
works appreciation
This is a vernacular narrative poem, divided into two sections. The whole poem is easy to understand, easy to understand, just like blurting out, but it is intense in emotion, heroic in momentum and clear and complete in artistic conception. This is the true expression of the poet's noble sentiment, which makes readers feel the awe of the poet's noble personality.
In the first half of the poem, the author compares "man" with "dog", "door" and "hole", and clearly expounds the revolutionaries' lofty pursuit of personality integrity. Hungarian poet petofi once said, "Life is precious, but love is more expensive. If you are free, you can throw both. " Famous sentences express people's persistent pursuit of freedom. Kuomintang reactionaries want to use this instinctive desire of the people to conquer revolutionaries who can't be conquered by torture. It is this instinctive desire. However, how can they know the difference between the "freedom" they give and the "freedom" that revolutionaries yearn for? This temptation has no effect in front of such a determined revolutionary as the poet. Revolutionaries are willing to shed their heads and blood just because they want to fight for real freedom for more people, even if they are in jail. Although I have lost my personal freedom now, what can I cherish if I lose this "little freedom" and gain more people's "great freedom"? The ancients said: "The reason why martyrs are different from constant people is to match friendship with fighting." And the poet is such a rich and unyielding, poor and unyielding upright revolutionary. He wrote: "I long for freedom, but I deeply know how a person's body can climb out of the dog hole!" " Therefore, when he was faced with the choice of "freedom" and "imprisonment", he would rather choose "imprisonment" in order to safeguard the dignity of a "person" and the revolutionary integrity of a producer. The poet's great personality is fully reflected here.
In the second half of the poem, the poet answered the voices shouting outside with impassioned tone, told them their own choices, and expressed their lofty aspirations and fearless spirit with fierce words. In the poem, the poet uses a "living coffin" as a metaphor for this human purgatory that imprisons revolutionary volunteers. On the one hand, it exposed the atrocities of the Kuomintang reactionaries who brutally persecuted the revolutionary volunteers and slaughtered the producers here; On the other hand, it also reveals that the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang is bound to perish. The poet firmly believes that the revolution will eventually win the final victory, and he is looking forward to the blazing fire of the revolution and burning the purgatory on earth. He is willing to give his blood and life for the country and the nation, so that he can embody the true value of life in the struggle between blood and fire and gain eternal life. We seem to see that in the burning fire, an indomitable image of party member stands tall and radiant.
This is a magnificent movement written by a revolutionary with his life. Although there are no gorgeous words carved, the sound is loud and clear, and it is so powerful to read. After the founding of New China, this poem was selected as a textbook for primary school students and used as a textbook for patriotic education. The lofty revolutionary integrity and great patriotism revealed in the poem have educated generations of China teenagers.
The poetry of this article is:
The road taken by revolutionaries is tightly locked by the enemy, but the road to surrender, which betrays the revolution and acts as a shameful traitor, is open. The reactionaries shouted at the top of their lungs: surrender! Give you freedom! I long for freedom, but I deeply understand how a real revolutionary gets freedom by selling out the revolution! I hope that one day, the torch of revolution will burn me with the prison of reactionaries, and I will gain eternal life in the struggle between blood and fire.
This is a poem written with life and blood. The poet used symbolism and contrast to show people the revolutionary's strong revolutionary will, lofty revolutionary integrity and revolutionary spirit of fighting to the end.
Brief introduction of the author
Ye Ting (1896 ~ 1946) was born in Huiyang, Guangdong. China proletarian strategist, one of the founders of China People's Liberation Army. Graduated from Baoding Military Academy. He used to be the battalion commander of the guard regiment of Marshal Sun Yat-sen's office, telephone number 192 1. 1924 went to Moscow Oriental University. /kloc-joined the China * * * production party in 0/925, and served as the chief of staff of the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army and the head of the independent regiment during the Northern Expedition. 1927 Participated in and led Nanchang Uprising and Guangzhou Uprising. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the New Fourth Army. 1946 was killed in a plane crash on the way back to Yan' an from Chongqing on April 8.
Ye Ting, formerly known as Xun, is a native of Xiping and a Hakka in Huiyang County. Founder of China People's Liberation Army, one of the important leaders of the New Fourth Army, a world-famous politician and strategist. The Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army was called the "Iron Army" in the Northern Expedition. Participated in Nanchang Uprising and served as Commander-in-Chief of the former enemy. When he participated in the Guangzhou Uprising, he was the commander-in-chief of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was the commander of the New Fourth Army. Was detained by the Kuomintang in the Southern Anhui Incident. He rejected Chiang Kai-shek's threats and inducements and wrote the famous Prison Song to show his ambition. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was readmitted as party member by China * * * Production Party after he was released from prison, and he and his wife Li Xiuwen, Qin Bangxian, Deng Fa, Wang Ruofei and other comrades were unfortunately wrecked on their way back to Yan 'an. 1988, identified by the Central Military Commission as one of the 36 founding strategists.