The author of "Comfort" is Gu Cheng.
Original text of the poem:
The green wild grapes,
The pale yellow moon,
My mother is worried,
How to make jam?
I said:
Don’t add sugar.
On the fence in the morning,
there is a sweet,
red sun.
About the author:
Gu Cheng (1956-1993) is a representative figure of misty poetry. He was born in Beijing in 1956. In 1969, he was transferred to Dongzhong Commune, Changyi County, Shandong Province with his father for five years. After returning to Beijing, he worked as a fondant worker and porter. In 1987, he was invited to visit European and American countries for cultural exchanges and lectures. In 1988, he went to New Zealand and was hired as a researcher in the Department of Asian Languages ??at the University of Auckland. He later resigned and lived in seclusion on Waiheke Island. He left behind a large number of poems, calligraphy and paintings, and published "Complete Collection of Gucheng Poems", the novel "Ying'er", and many collections of essays.
Features of Gu Cheng’s works:
1. Fairy tale stage
The period from 1969 to 1982 is the early stage of his creation. The overall style is bright and pure, and the early fairy tale poetry language It is concise, has the characteristics of children's language, is ethereal and pure, the sentence structure is usually very short, the artistic conception is very beautiful, and the fine artistic feeling mixes all the sounds, colors, lights and tastes into a wonderful world.
2. Period of Transformation
The period from 1983 to 1986 belongs to the middle period of his creation. The works of this period are a period of self-exploration and transformation of the poet, and have received mixed reviews. From this part of the work, readers can clearly feel the differences and connections with the earlier and later works. The works of this period still retain a strong fairy tale color, but also have deeper connotations.
3. The dream stage
The period after 1987 was the later period of his poetry creation. After going abroad, Gu Cheng almost stopped copying and editing his own poems. He also increasingly felt that writing poems was the most basic and purely natural phenomenon of life for him. Even later, he still looked at the world from the eyes of a child, but by then he had an adult body and a heavy heart.