"Why do I often have tears in my eyes? /Because I love this land deeply ... "
This famous poem, from the day it was born, seemed to have wings and flew into the hearts of millions of readers in Qian Qian, violently impacting their hearts and shaking their feelings. Anyone who has read this poem is infected by the poet's sincere and deep feelings. Like poets, they have tears in their eyes. ...
This poem shocked the poetry world with its great artistic charm.
This poem was written in Wuhan in 1938.
At this time, the poet has already had rich experience. Whether it is social unrest, national crisis or people's suffering, poets have been or are being strongly shocked. And all this happened in this land of China. Poets who have been caring and thinking about this land have a deeper understanding of this land and stronger feelings. Born in Jinhua rural area, the poet has a deep affection for the land in the south since he was a child. Subsequently, with the ups and downs of life, the poet has been to Shanghai, Changzhou, Shanxi and Shaanxi, and was deeply moved by the land in the north. As a singer of an era, how should a poet treat this land that bears and nurtures himself, this land with a long history, this land with deep disasters, and this land that is burning with the bonfire of the Anti-Japanese War? The poet can't restrain his burning emotion any longer, and he wants to express his strong love for this land. ...
This strong emotion is condensed into the poem "I love this land".
Judging from the title of this poem, it is obvious that the poet's intention is to highlight the word "love" firmly and unequivocally. And how did the poet write about his love for this land? Reading this poem made us fall in love with it.
The poet's love for the land has been expressed in many of his poems. However, it is rare for this poem to be so concentrated, so strong and so inspiring.
What's your feeling for the land? This poem can be said to be a confession of the poet. The poet expressed his feelings for the land in a "direct" lyric way. As serious as "oath" and as solemn as "blood".
The poet compares himself to a bird:
"If I were a bird,/I should also sing with a hoarse throat:/This land has been hit by a storm,/This river of sadness and indignation is always surging,/This angry wind is blowing endlessly,/There is an incomparably gentle dawn from the forest .../-Then I died,/Even my feathers rotted in the ground."
I am a bird, and I want to sing to death. Who are you singing for? The poet summed up the mission of "I" with four symbolic poems. These four poems have no specific reference, but they have expanded and deepened the connotation of this mission with more vivid and broader general references. The land that the poet loves deeply is experiencing a great historical struggle and great changes. In this land, it is no longer a stagnant pool, nor is it just desolation and suffering. The people are rising, the nation is awakening, and the "incomparably gentle dawn" is just around the corner ... As a bird, the poet will sing for this great era!
In order to accomplish his historical mission, the poet looks upon death as death. "-then I died,/even my feathers rotted in the ground." This sentence sharpened his determination and made the relationship between the poet and the land thorough. When I die, my flesh, bones and blood will be buried in the land, and my feathers will rot in the land, that is to say, everything I have will be dedicated to this land without reservation. ...
At this point, the poet's love for the land has been fully expressed. The phrase "even the feathers rot in the ground" is enough to shake people's hearts. However, the poet did not stop there, but shocked the readers again with the last two sentences:
"Why do I often have tears in my eyes? /Because I love this land deeply ... "
These two sentences are simple and clear, but they have earth-shattering power. Because these "tears" contain too many emotions! A thousand words, needless to say, everything is contained in this "tear".
Here, we see how the poet grasps his emotions well and how he expresses his emotions well!
What is a good poem? This kind of question often revolves in the reader's mind. Indeed, such a simple question is often difficult to answer. However, a good poem is a good poem after all, and there is a recognized truth.
Simply put, a poem that can be understood is not necessarily bad, not necessarily straightforward, and not necessarily tasteless. Poems that you can't understand are not necessarily good or profound. It depends on what the poet wrote and how. Ai Qing once said: "whether a poem is good or not cannot be measured by whether it can be understood;"
Nor can the degree of understanding be used as a criterion to measure the value of a work. "
The poem "I love this land" is not difficult to understand, and its meaning is clear. And this poem is so outstanding and influential. This clearly shows that whether a poem with clear meaning can be created depends on the artistic strength of the poet.
The poem "I love this land" is the representative work of Wuhan poets. This poem, together with The North and other poems, marks another bumper harvest period for the poet. Poetry in this period occupies an important position on the poet's creative road.
It is obvious from the title of this poem that the poet's intention is to highlight the word "love" firmly and unequivocally. And how did the poet write about his love for this land? Reading this poem made us fall in love with it.
The poet's love for the land has been expressed in many of his poems. However, it is rare for this poem to be so concentrated, so strong and so inspiring.
What's your feeling for the land? This poem can be said to be a confession of the poet. The poet expressed his feelings for the land in a "direct" lyric way. As serious as "oath" and as solemn as "blood".
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Ai Qing shared the national disaster with high patriotic enthusiasm and devoted himself to the great anti-aggression struggle. He picked up a pen and wrote many beautiful poems, one of which was I Love This Land. Written in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, it is a masterpiece that inspires the poet's emotions through land.
Simple image embodies deep love: image is artistic conception. "Land" and "Sun" are two main images in Ai Qing's poems. "Land" symbolizes the troubled motherland that gave birth to him and raised him. Therefore, the image of "land" embodies Ai Qing's deepest love for the motherland and the people, and his deep concern about the national crisis and the sufferings of the people. This can be seen from the title of the poem, such as "Why do I often have tears in my eyes?" Because I love this land deeply … ",these two true and simple poems tell the eternal" land "complex in the poet's heart. From this, we can easily draw a conclusion that Ai Qing's poems have a unique world of aesthetic images.
Article 3 For those who are familiar with the history of modern literature in China, I am afraid that no one does not know Ai Qing's name;
For readers who are familiar with Ai Qing's poems, I'm afraid no one can forget the famous sentence in Ai Qing's poems: "Why do I often have tears in my eyes?" /Because I love this land deeply ... "Reading these two poems, I remembered the beginning of this poem:" If I were a bird ",the image of cuckoo weeping blood would naturally appear in front of our eyes, and the voice of grief and indignation would ring in our ears.
I love this land is a short poem written by Ai Qing in the autumn of 1938, but it has become one of the representative works with distinctive characteristics of the times and showing the poet's unique personal style. When the poet wrote this poem, it was the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Half of the country's rivers and mountains fell under the iron feet of the Japanese invaders, and the people in the occupied areas were forced into exile, hungry and cold, and struggled to death. In the face of such a national disaster, the poet Ai Qing was both sad and angry. Just as the Japanese invaders had just extended their evil talons to North China in China, he sang sadly: "Snow has fallen on the land of China,/Cold is blocking China ..." ("Snow has fallen on the land of China") He felt the heavy suffering of the land in the north with the poet's trembling heart: "The north is sad/. However, Ai Qing, a poet, did not let his feelings just stay in the unbearable pain. On the one hand, he felt the pain of the people, on the other hand, he turned his deep grief into constant loyalty to the motherland and the people. In "North", he wrote: "The sand blowing in my face/the cold wind blowing in my bones/never cursed me", "It is vast and thin." In this song "I Love This Land", he once again pinned his deep affection for the motherland and the people on his love for the "land", expressing the unfailing childlike innocence of a China poet in the face of national disaster. Therefore, although this poem has only ten short sentences, it not only conveys the characteristics of the times and the sufferings of the nation, but also fully embodies the poet's artistic personality and becomes one of the most representative works of the poet.
The Deep Meaning of "Bird" Image
Comparing the poet's singing with the bird's singing, generally speaking, the poet's warm and cheerful singing, like the bird's cheerful singing, makes people feel the beauty of life. Only when a poet is full of affection can he feel warm and affectionate from the bottom of his heart like a magpie thrush. But in this poem, the poet's singing is different from the cheerful and high-pitched singing, but with the heaviness of the times: "If I were a bird,/I would also sing with a hoarse throat". These two lines of poems blurted out by the poet directly express his sincere feelings of singing for the motherland. Of course, they show the poet's warm feelings of singing with poetry, but what is more noteworthy is "singing with a hoarse throat" Why "singing with a hoarse throat"? This is the expression of the poet's deep feelings. His throat will be hoarse because of the severe pain. Therefore, at the beginning of the poem, it has created a sad tone and a heavy atmosphere for the whole poem, which makes us feel the great pain buried in the poet's heart.