There are four image group in this poem. Through their progressive combination, it not only expresses the development process of the motherland from suffering to rebirth, but also expresses sympathy for the younger generation with a special emotional process from confusion to deep thinking to boiling. Poetry first suppresses and then promotes, just like a multi-part symphony, showing a language rhythm from soothing to urgent, from low to high. The dignified emotion expressed by the novel image is the key point to appreciate the whole poem.
In the first section, the poet arranged a series of images: waterwheels, miner's lamps, ears of rice, roadbed and barges. These words are preceded by long or short modifiers, such as "shabby", "black", "shriveled" and "disrepair", which show their suffering. "Hundreds of Years" and "Historical Tunnel" show that they have gone through a long time. The last and most emphasized "barge" is on the "muddy beach" and is struggling to move forward under the traction of the fiber rope "deeply pulled into your shoulder" at the other end. The author repeatedly uses the sentence pattern of "I am ……", and in telling the deep feelings of the motherland, he melts the individual "I" into the big image of the motherland, expressing the feelings of "I" and the motherland that are life-and-death dependent and flesh-and-blood linked. In the last line, a dash leads to the passionate singing of "the motherland", which is the transformation of the narrator and also makes the poem pause in a small high tide. The following two sections also end in this way.
In the second part, there are no specific images arranged as in the first part. In this section, "poverty", "sadness" and "hope" are abstract words. "Flying in the sky" is a god who can fly in the sky in religious legends. It is highly respected among the people and entrusted with the wishes of simple people for life. The first two poems are all about the history of the motherland. The first section talks about realism, and this section talks about spirit. Mentally, people have always maintained "painful hope" in poverty, and have been looking forward to "landing" and becoming a reality for thousands of years.
The third section is about the present. Faced with new historical opportunities, a Millennium country has begun a new life. Thirdly, the poet arranged a series of vivid images, such as "ideal", "embryo of ancient lotus", "vortex with tears", "new white starting line" and "crimson dawn is spreading". This shows that the motherland has got rid of the shackles and is thriving.
The fourth section is the declaration of "I". Personally, I am one of China's one billion people and the "one billion" of the motherland. But from my mission, I should shoulder the heavy responsibility of rejuvenating China, and I should be integrated with the motherland, so it is the sum of 9.6 million square meters. You have scarred breasts/nurtured me/lost me, cared for me and boiled me. So, what can I do to repay my mother's kindness? The poet solemnly declared to the motherland, "Then take away your wealth, your glory and your freedom from my flesh and blood". Finally, I read the last chapter of Motherland/My Dear Motherland with strong repetition.
There is not a word in the whole poem, which is described by images and runs through with emotions. The selected image is concise, vivid, unique and appropriate, and every word is closely related to the described scene. Lyricism is not an unobstructed view, but pays great attention to its ups and downs, from sadness, low to joy, high, from excitement to deep, tangled with a variety of complex and dignified feelings such as sadness, anxiety, fierceness, disappointment and hope, sigh and pursuit, which embodies the poet's unique euphemistic, deep, soft and meaningful lyric personality.
The poet expressed the feelings of being linked with the motherland and sharing weal and woe, and expressed a strong sense of patriotism and historical responsibility.
The image of "I" in the poem is cast in the big image of the motherland, sharing joys and sorrows with the motherland, and shouldering the heavy responsibility of obtaining "prosperity", "glory" and "freedom" for the motherland in the face of historical opportunities. The poet expresses this emotion through concrete things such as "old waterwheel", "miner's lamp", "ear of rice", "roadbed" and "barge", which symbolizes the indomitable vitality of the motherland.
1. Appreciation of Motherland, My Dear Motherland (Cai Qijiao)
Syntactically, this poem draws lessons from the ring sentence in Goya by the Soviet poet Woznetsky: "I am Goya! ..... I am in pain. I am the voice of war. ..... I'm hungry! ... I am ... the throat of a hanged woman. ..... I am Goya. " Voznesenski wrote about my relationship with the war and used cyclic sentences to strengthen my sadness and anger at the war. Shu Ting's writing about my relationship with my motherland also uses this sentence pattern to increase the depth of pain and love, but it is also a creative development. Circumferential sentences often appear in works that express strong feelings, and are best used to render sad and painful feelings.
Repetition is a common artistic technique in poetry creation, and circular sentence pattern is a rhetorical method of repeating the same type of sentence or word, that is, connecting several parts of a very complete language unit and arranging them in a circle to form a harmonious whole in meaning and tone. Can be divided into two points, three points, four points and many points. This poem uses many elements.
Poetry reached its climax from the beginning, which is Shu Ting's consistent technique. The first two clauses of the first section are balanced sentences, which contain descriptions of sounds and colors. Three or four sentences are shortened and not depicted; The five sentences are long, the lines are short and tight, and the intensity exceeds the previous four sentences, so the subject (motherland) appears.
In the second quarter, direct dialogue is started without adjectives. Three or four sentences summarize the front, and then the theme appears.
The third quarter is another change. The quintile is divided into seven lines, and the rhythm is staggered. If the first paragraph and the second paragraph are written in the past tense ("flowers that have not landed for thousands of years between flying sleeves"), use the present tense; This third section is about the future (The Newly Painted White Starting Line), and it also uses the present tense, which is more concrete and realistic, connecting the preceding with the following, and the pain rises to hope, so the subject appears again.
The first two lines in the fourth quarter are one billionth small and 9.6 million square meters large. The unity of the big and the small is the enhancement of contrast, which means that I am a member of the motherland, but my chest contains the whole motherland. Next, scarred breasts nurtured me, taken from my flesh and blood, which is another contrast, highlighting my inseparable connection with the motherland; Even confusion, deep thinking and boiling are the opposites of richness, glory and freedom, so that we can see the endless joys and sorrows. If the first three sections are about my relationship with the motherland syntactically, the fourth section is about my relationship with the motherland in turn, which is the theme. Syntactic ambiguity is a manifestation of extreme excitement, which ends in the double-calling sentence of the subject (the subject at the end of the first three paragraphs is a single-calling sentence) and reaches a climax.
There are only thirty-four lines in the whole poem, but four semicolons are used. The clauses in these semicolons have a short duration, which reflects the changes of rhythm and melody. This poem is political, but it is not discussed, but only described, which is also a feature. All the symbols and metaphors in the poem are simple and beautiful, and every word is closely related to the scenery and images described. The poet not only observes with his own national elements, but also writes the spiritual essence and typical tone of people's inner life and outer life with national language means and expressions that people can understand. What she feels and says is exactly what her compatriots feel and say.
(Selected from the Dictionary of Appreciation of New Poetry, Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, 199 1 edition)
2. Appreciation of Motherland, My Dear Motherland (Li Tingming)
When it comes to the motherland, people often think of the four great inventions of the Yangtze River, the Great Wall, Huangshan Mountain and the Yellow River, which are vast in territory and rich in resources ... praise the strength and greatness of the motherland with a kind of illusion that seems bold but empty. Shu Ting did the opposite, found another way, faced the ancient history and grim reality of the motherland, selected a large number of vivid and meaningful images, edited and combined them into a flowing and dignified picture in a montage way, and sang a true affection for the motherland with a slow and deep rhythm.
In the poet's mind, the motherland is no longer a huge and empty abstraction, but a collection of vicissitudes of the past, the reality of poverty and despair and the hope of crimson dawn. As the lyric subject, the poet integrates the self with the images in his poems, so that the materialized self-image can be embodied in the images of the motherland. I am an old waterwheel worn by your river, a miner's lamp blackened on your forehead, a painful hope of your ancestors, a brand-new ideal of yours, a tearful smile vortex of yours, a billionth of yours, and the sum of your 9.6 million square meters ... The poet is not just a simple individual who grew up in the embrace of the motherland.
This poem is like a symphony with many voices. The first two sections are gloomy and dignified, full of sorrow for the disaster history and severe reality of the motherland; The last two sections are fresh and lively, revealing the joy of the motherland to get rid of suffering and eager to fly; At the same time, it expresses that a generation of young people who have experienced setbacks share the fate of the motherland and exchange their blood and sweat for the aspiration of the motherland's prosperity, glory and freedom.
(Selected from Extracurricular Reading and Appreciation of Middle School Students and Modern and Contemporary Poetry of China, Sichuan People's Publishing House, 2000).