Author: Shu Ting
I am your shabby old waterwheel by the river, spinning tired songs for hundreds of years;
When you grope in the tunnel of history, I am a miner's lamp with black forehead.
I am the withered ear of rice, the disrepair roadbed;
It is a barge on the muddy beach, pulling the rope deep into your shoulder,-motherland!
I'm poor and I'm sad.
I am the painful hope of your forefathers, the flower that will never land between the sleeves of "flying"-the motherland!
I am your brand-new ideal, just breaking away from the spider web of myth;
I am the germ of your ancient lotus under the snow; I am your laughing vortex with tears hanging;
I am the newly painted white starting line;
What is breaking out is the crimson dawn; -the motherland!
I am one billionth of you, the sum of your 9.6 million square meters;
You fed me with scarred breasts, confused me, considerate me and boiled me;
Then get your wealth, your glory and your freedom from my flesh and blood; -Motherland, my dear motherland!
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Motherland, My Dear Motherland is one of Shu Ting's representative works, which aims to express the poet's deep affection for the motherland. Compared with similar poems in the past, it has distinct characteristics and personality of the times-both the confusion, pain and happy hope of contemporary youth and the true feelings of daughter's dissatisfaction and dedication to the motherland.
The whole poem is novel in conception and sincere in feelings, which is contrary to the floating and mythical praise of some previous poems and sings the songs of the motherland from a unique angle.
As the poem sings: "I am your brand-new ideal,/I just broke free from the spider web of myth", the poet scans the poverty and backwardness of the motherland with the eyes of a naked child and expresses the sad affection with the heart of a daughter: "I am poor,/I am sad. /I am your ancestor/painful hope,/I am a "flying" sleeve/a flower that never leaves for a thousand years ",after the pain of indulgence.
He also expressed the joy of hope: "I am your brand-new ideal", "I am your tearful smile vortex" and "it is a crimson dawn/burst". In order to realize this beautiful hope, the poet expressed a desire for dedication: "Then get your richness, your glory and your freedom from my flesh and blood."
In order to express this deep feeling, the poet adopted a rhythm from low to high. Only when you are low and slow can you cry like complaining, like sadness, like resentment; Only with high pitch and quick action can you be passionate and indomitable. In order to express the poet's blending consciousness and dedication to the motherland, the whole poem adopts the method of alternating blending of subject and object.
The subject is the poet's "I" and the object is the "motherland". In the process of the whole poem, let them be integrated-I am the motherland and the motherland is me. The motherland is my pain, and I am the sorrow of the motherland; The motherland is my confusion, and I am the hope of the motherland; I am the whirlpool of tears and laughter of the motherland, and the motherland is soaring and running in my flesh and blood and soul.
Traditionally, people call works such as Motherland, My Dear Motherland Oak, This is Everything, After the Storm and so on. As the "high-pitched area" of Shu Ting's poems. Because they directly express the poet's political feelings and ideals of the times, they have won more praise and praise.
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