The first sentence of the poem "This is a backwater of despair" has profound implications: it symbolizes the corrupt and dark semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China at that time, just like a backwater of despair.
With rich imagination, figurative metaphor, vivid color description and satirical brushwork, the poet gradually and profoundly wrote the further changes of stagnant water after throwing out scrap iron and leftovers. Scrap copper and iron thrown into stagnant water will produce green rust and red rust, with copper rust green as "emerald" and rust red as "peach blossom".
Poets use colorful "Emerald", "Peach Blossom", "Rocky", "Xia Yun" and "Pearl" to describe dirty stagnant water, just like putting a delicate and elegant coat on the devil.
This is a contrast between false beauty and ugliness. The poet wrote this way to make the ugly class uglier. Write ugliness with beauty, and ugliness is even uglier. In this unique way, the poet shows the rancid nature of stagnant water more vividly, and at the same time makes his poetry have a strong irony.
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The poem A Desperate Dead Water is a symbol of semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China. The poet seized the "death" of stagnant water and approached it step by step, showing the feelings of "despair" incisively and vividly. The last verse of the poem shows that he has no illusions about darkness and firmly believes that ugliness cannot produce beauty; But unlike embers, he said angrily, "It is better to abandon ugliness and practice and see what world it has created."
Zhu Ziqing said in the preface of Wen Yiduo's Complete Works: "It is simply to make ugliness full of evil earlier, and there is hope in despair." Hope in despair and patriotic enthusiasm in cold are the themes of this poem.
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