If I love you——
I will never be like a climbing flower in the sky,
I use your high branches to show off myself;
What if I Love you——
Never imitate the infatuated bird,
Repeat a monotonous song for the green shade;
It is not just like a spring,
It brings cool comfort all year round;
It is not just like a dangerous peak,
it increases your height and sets off your majesty.
"To the Oak Tree" is a contemporary poem written by Chinese poet Shu Ting in 1977. The poem begins with two assumptions to express her view of love: She neither wants to be superior to the other person and use the other person's prominence to show off her vanity; nor does she want to drown herself in the shadow of the other person's indifference and sing the song of unrequited love alone.
Extended information:
This poem uses the artistic technique of overall symbolism and uses the inner monologue of "Kapok" to "Oak" to sing passionately and frankly about his personality ideals and requirements. The concept of love that stands side by side, is independent and affectionate to each other.
It can be seen that the poet has a careful design when selecting the materials for poetry creation: oak is so suitable to represent the masculine beauty of men, while kapok is so appropriate to represent women's self-reliance and the relationship with men. requirements for equality. As soon as this poem was born, oak and kapok became a new set of images in Chinese love poetry.