Haiyan has profound political significance and symbolic connotation. Through several scenes before the storm, the work depicts the image of Haiyan, a pioneer of proletarian revolution, which symbolizes great wisdom and courage. "On the vast sea surface, the wind gathers dark clouds." When the storm was brewing, Haiyan had already been unable to hold back her desire and joy for the storm, impacting between clouds and waves and bravely shouting.
Other seabirds-seagulls, sea ducks and penguins-regard the storm as a disaster and are terrified, while Haiyan is eagerly welcoming new life; When the storm comes and the dark clouds are on top, Haiyan is still like a "black lightning", an arrow that leaves the string, dancing in the wind and thunder, laughing and howling, like a "spirit in the storm"; When thunder and lightning, mountains calling for tsunami and storms are about to break out, Haiyan, as the "prophet" of victory, finally issued a cry-"Let the storm come more violently!"
This is the declaration of the war of the times, which indicates the coming of the revolutionary storm, inspires people to take active actions to meet the great battle, shows the strong and fearless revolutionary idealism spirit, is full of lofty sentiments and stirs people's hearts.
Haiyan embodies the typical characteristics of revolutionary romanticism in Gorky's early works. With the magnificent nature as the background, the whole poem tries its best to render the tense atmosphere of stormy waves, lightning and thunder, roaring winds and magnificent waves, writes strong and vivid colors like oil paintings, and creates an artistic image like "arrogant and black storm spirit".
It contains strong emotion and satirical style, has distinct revolutionary romanticism characteristics, and creates a strong atmosphere of heroism and idealism on the whole, which gives people a strong shock. It reflects Gorky's early aesthetic proposition-he said in a letter to Chekhov: "Indeed, the era of heroism has arrived. Hope is not like life, but higher than life, better than life. "
In writing skills, the most prominent feature of Haiyan is the use of symbolism. The "sea" symbolizes the overwhelming power of the people at the height of the revolution, while the "dark clouds" and "strong winds" symbolize counter-revolutionary forces and dark social environment. Symbolism makes the thought more vivid and emotional, and expands the ideological connotation and aesthetic space of the work.
The work also uses a variety of rhetorical devices, such as contrast, repetition, contrast, metaphor, personification and so on. , which further enhances the artistic expression and the three-dimensional sense of the image: instead of shaping the image of "Haiyan" on a plane, they depict "seagulls" full of fear of storms, symbolizing all kinds of revolutionaries who are afraid of revolution, unrevolution and fake revolution.
Their timidity, selfishness and escapism contrast and contrast Haiyan's lofty spirit of courage, persistence, fear of violence and dedication. It is in the sharp contrast of two completely different attitudes towards the storm that the image of Haiyan, which is brave, selfless, optimistic, firm and excellent, stands out. Writing "wind", "thunder", "cloud" and "electricity" is also to set off Haiyan's vigorous and brave fighting posture and optimistic and fearless revolutionary pride.
Gorky used the contrast and contrast of images to suppress evil and promote good, lash out at evil and ugliness and praise good, and created the artistic image of "Haiyan" full of strength and beauty, which profoundly reflected the characteristics of the times, thus blowing the horn of marching into a bright era, awakening the people and encouraging them to bravely join the liberation struggle.
As far as overall aesthetics is concerned, Haiyan is not only a colorful lyric poem, but also an oil painting with musical rhythm and fluidity. It combines the characteristics of poetry and prose, and shows the beauty of music and painting of poetry. The style of writing is rough and bold, magnificent, colorful and emotional, which gives people a strong artistic appeal.
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Historical evaluation
Lenin's wife Krupskaya recalled: "Vladimir ilych attached great importance to Alexei Macsimovici Gorky as a writer. He especially likes his mother, ... likes Song of the Eagle and Song of Haiyan, and likes the artistic conception of these poems. "
Ulyan Nova, Lenin's sister, once recalled when Gorky died: "I recalled the role played by Gorky, the importance of his works to each of us, the silent years during underground activities, and the significance of Gorky to young people who lost their freedom of speech at that time. I recall that we were fascinated by his work Mother, and everyone remembered Haiyan's immortal song. "
In the article The Road of Underground Activities of Proletarian Writers, Yaroslavski recalled the situation in the early 20th century: "Gorky's Haiyan, a revolutionary poem of fighting, is of great significance. ..... reprinted in every city, spread in the form of mimeograph and typewriter printing, copied by hand, recited and repeated among workers and college students. "
References:
Baidu encyclopedia, Haiyan