The specific original text 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".
Gu Cheng is an important representative poet of China misty poetry school, and is known as a contemporary "Left-leaning 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.
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.