1, creative background:
Ai Qing's fate suddenly changed after the more and more famous Spring Flute Art Research Institute was targeted by the French concession patrol room. On the night of July 1932, the administrative police of the French Concession dispatched patrols to surround No.4 Fengyuli, and Ai Qing was arrested. 1932 In August, the third branch of Jiangsu Provincial High Court sentenced Ai Qing to 6 years' imprisonment. Ai Qing was detained in Mas South Road Prison in Shanghai.
1933, in a prison in Shanghai, Ai Qing published the long poem Dayan River-My Nanny for the first time under a pseudonym, which is one of Ai Qing's representative works. Ai Qing once lived in the abundance of Danshui Road for a period of time.
2. Poetry structure:
The whole poem can be divided into four parts:
The first part (1─2) describes the reason why Dayan River got its name and the relationship between Dayan River and itself.
The second part (section 3-8) recalls the wet nurse's career, servant's career and his "deep love", and emphatically depicts the industrious, simple and kind quality of Dayan River, expressing the poet's nostalgia and respect for Dayan River. Touching the scene and recalling the life of Dayan River;
The third part (9- 1 1) returns to reality, eulogizing the river.
The fourth part (paragraph 12- 13) is outspoken and praises Dayan River.
Writing characteristics:
1, autobiographical lyric poetry (free verse).
This style, one line at a time; Each line has no certain syllables and each paragraph has no certain number of lines; There are also poems that are not segmented. Rhyme and rhyme of free verse.
2. Lyrics with a certain narrative.
As far as the general trend of this poem is concerned, the author did not tell the reader a complete or almost complete story about his nurse. He used these stories or fragments of pictures to pour out his deep affection for Dayan River. So this poem is a lyric poem, not a narrative poem.
3. Respond from beginning to end.
The whole poem does not rhyme, and the number of sentences in each paragraph is different, but each paragraph echoes from beginning to end, and there is a strong internal connection between paragraphs; Poetry does not pursue rhyme and lines, but the proper use of parallelism makes many images complex and not chaotic, unified and harmonious. These make poetry smooth and simple, and contain rich contents.
Poets are good at extracting typical images from ordinary life and writing strong rhythms with prose-like poems. Poetry is bold and unrestrained, with beautiful and smooth rhythm, which expresses the poet's feelings of going to the deep valley and perfectly embodies Ai Qing's free poetic style.