Lu Li is an important poet in the history of modern Chinese literature. This song "Mud" is a quintessential lyrical poem in the style of aphorisms, and is also a representative work of Lu Li.
The whole poem has four lines and is divided into two stanzas. The first section is a true description of a state of life. Over the years, there have always been some people like this: as soon as they have some ability, they feel that they are great, and they start to admire themselves and regard themselves as special. However, the real world does not welcome such people. What such people leave to society is just a few sighs about not being able to appreciate their talents. In ancient times, there were indeed people whose talents were not appreciated. Due to the tyranny or stupidity of the feudal rulers, how many people with lofty ideals had no way of serving the country but their talents and knowledge! However, today's times have changed, and scholars with talents have a broad field of use. When the people are carrying out revolution and construction in full swing, whoever still regards themselves as pearls will have entered a misunderstanding in life, and will inevitably suffer from "buried pain". How to be free? The second stanza of the poem tells us the answer: "Treat yourself as clay / Let everyone trample you into a road." This undoubtedly means that all human beings, regardless of their intelligence or ability, should devote themselves to the great cause of the people's creation of the world. Moreover, we must be willing to be ordinary, willing to sacrifice, and willing to contribute!
This poem was written in the late period of the Anti-Japanese War. It advocates a socially responsible attitude towards life and expounds a spiritual concept of having the courage to sacrifice personal interests. The poet Lu Li "left his hometown and lived in a foreign country" since he was a child, and returned to China in 1932. It has been 17 years since the birth of New China. In the past 17 years, the poet has taken root in the fertile soil of life, thought for thousands of years, and seen thousands of miles, and created a large number of literary and artistic works. When summarizing these 17 years of creation, the poet said: "Most of the poems and prose reports I wrote during the past 17 years are...crying for the fate of the motherland and the heroic struggle of the workers, peasants and soldiers in the democratic base areas. And the eulogy also partly expresses the inner expression of revolutionary intellectuals in the torrent of the times and the furnace of revolution." Undoubtedly, the poem "Soil" is one of the "inner expressions" he called. However, his "expression" is not boring: the use of metaphors and transitional structures, the symbolic contrast between "pearl" and "earth", and the plainness and simplicity of the language have established the unprecedented success of the poem in art. It is precisely because of the high unity of philosophy and artistry that this poem makes everyone who reads it love it and it has become a motto for many people
Answer: Xiao Wu Daxia | Level 1 | 2009- 11-29 14:30 | Report
In society, if people were allowed to choose to be pearls or clay, pearls would win the hearts of more people, right? However, time went forward for more than half a century, and there was a poem like this: "If you treat yourself as a pearl, you will often have the pain of being buried. Treat yourself as soil, and let people step on a path from it." The author of the poem is Lu Li.
Lu Li is not just writing poetry, nor is he just writing such poems. His life is also a life melted by such poetry, rather than making poems for others to read. A wise man who lets others be the clay but holds on to his pearls.
Lu Li is a stubborn "stupid" who does whatever he writes.
When he was leading a group of children to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda, a car rushed over and the children were in danger. Everyone shouted to stop him, but Lu Li jumped on the car pedal, raised his fist, and broke the windshield. window and managed to stop the car, but his hands were bloody! In a subsequent petition event, when the petition team was locked out of the gate, it was Lu Li who jumped into the courtyard first!