In artistic expression, poetry adopts the lyrical way of inner monologue, which is convenient for expressing the poet's inner world frankly and happily. At the same time, the image is constructed as a whole symbol (the whole poem symbolizes the independent personality and sincere love of both lovers with the whole image of oak and kapok), which makes philosophical thoughts and ideas germinate in the intimate and sensible image and poetic, so this richest man is rational.
Shu Ting himself admits: "10 years, I have written a lot of essays, and the total amount far exceeds poetry. But most readers only remember my poems and often equate my name with an oak tree. " In the book True Water Without Fragrance, she recalled the prototype and creative process of To the Oak.
1975 Cai Qijiao, an old returned overseas Chinese poet who once helped her a lot in writing, visited Gulangyu Island. That night, when Shu Ting accompanied him for a walk, Cai Qijiao told her about the girl she met in her life. It was bold to talk openly about liking girls in the 1970s.
Shu Ting said that she was very angry after listening to it. She thinks this is male chauvinism and men and women should be equal. So that night, she wrote a poem "Oak Tree" and gave it to Cai Qijiao. Later, when it was published, it was changed to To Oak.
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Baidu encyclopedia-to oak tree