The Writing Background of To the Oak Tree

Writing background: 1975, Cai Qijiao, an old returned overseas Chinese poet who once helped her a lot in writing, visited Gulangyu Island. That night, when Shu Ting accompanied him for a walk, Cai Qijiao told her about the girls she met in her life.

It was bold to talk openly about liking girls in the 1970s. Cai Qijiao said that there are beautiful girls, but no talent; Talented girls are not beautiful; Beautiful, talented and fierce, he found it difficult to find a perfect girl.

Shu Ting said that she was very angry after listening to it. She thinks this is male chauvinism and men and women should be equal. So that night, she wrote a poem "Oak Tree" and gave it to Cai Qijiao. Later, when it was published, it was changed to To Oak.

The extended information poet takes the oak tree as the object, expressing the enthusiasm, sincerity and firmness of love. Through the artistic technique of quasi-materialization, he sang his own personality ideal and independent and affectionate love view with the inner monologue of Kapok Tree.

In artistic expression, poetry adopts the lyrical way of inner monologue, which is convenient for expressing the poet's inner world frankly and happily. At the same time, the image is constructed as a whole symbol (the whole poem symbolizes the independent personality and sincere love of both lovers with the whole image of oak and kapok), which makes philosophical thoughts and ideas germinate in the intimate and sensible image and poetic, so this richest man is rational.

Shu Ting, Zi Gong, is from Quanzhou, Fujian. After graduating from high school, I went to work in the countryside of Shanghang County. /kloc-started writing poetry in 0/971year. 1972 transferred to Xiamen and worked as a bricklayer, mortar worker, car stopper, statistician and welder. 1979 published his first poem, Motherland, My Dear Motherland, which attracted attention and won the 1970- 1980 National Excellent New Poetry Award for Young and Middle-aged Poets.

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