The whole poem uses symbolism and irony to deeply expose the dark rule of Beiyang warlords and show their determination to be at odds with this dark government. The whole poem compares the dark and stale old China under the warlord's rule to "a ditch of desperate stagnant water", and strongly lashes and curses it, showing the poet's deep patriotic enthusiasm.
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The creative background of stagnant water;
1922, the poet went to the United States to study with the ambition of serving the motherland. In a foreign land, the poet tasted the bitterness of China people being humiliated and discriminated against. 1925, the poet returned home early with strong patriotic feelings and ardent expectations.
However, after returning home, the motherland presented to him was a scene of extreme disappointment-warlords fighting and imperialism running rampant, so that the poet's feelings changed from disappointment and pain to extreme anger. The poem "Dead Water" was written under such circumstances.
Brief introduction of the author of "Dead Water":
Wen Yiduo (1899- 1946) is a modern poet and scholar. Xishui people in Hubei. I studied literature and art in America. He joined the crescent society in his early years and was a major member of the society. He wrote poems such as "Red Candle" and "Dead Water". In the form of new poetry, he advocates meter and emphasizes "symmetry of stanzas and uniformity of sentences".
Later, he mainly engaged in academic research, and made great achievements in the study of The Book of Songs, Songs of the South and Zhouyi. He taught in Qingdao University and Tsinghua University successively, and was a professor at Kunming Southwest United University during the Anti-Japanese War. Mr. Wen Yiduo's life path is poet → scholar → democracy fighter, which is a brave, shining and bumpy life.
Formerly known as Wen Jiahua, also known as Duoduo, Yiduo and Yiduo, the word is especially three and especially good. Crescent School is a representative poet, whose works are mainly included in Wen Yiduo's complete works. China was a great patriot in modern times, a staunch democratic fighter, an early leader of China Democratic League and a close friend of China Producers' Party. He was honest and took an active part in the patriotic and democratic movement. He was assassinated by Kuomintang agents in Kunming in the summer of 1946.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Dead Water (Wen Yiduo creates poems)