I love this land.
If I were a bird,
I should also sing with a hoarse throat:
This land hit by the storm,
This river of sadness and anger will surge forever,
This endless wind,
And the gentle dawn from the forest ...
And then I died,
Even feathers rot in the ground.
Why do I often cry?
Because I love this land deeply. ...
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I am a bird.
"Why do I often have tears in my eyes? /Because I love this land deeply ... "
This famous poem, from the day it was born, seemed to have wings and flew into the hearts of millions of readers in Qian Qian, violently impacting their hearts and shaking their feelings. Anyone who has read this poem is infected by the poet's sincere and deep feelings. Like poets, they have tears in their eyes. ...
This poem shocked the poetry world with its great artistic charm.
This poem was written in Wuhan in 1938.
At this time, the poet has already had rich experience. Whether it is social unrest, national crisis or people's suffering, poets have been or are being strongly shocked. And all this happened in this land of China. Poets who have been caring and thinking about this land have a deeper understanding of this land and stronger feelings. Born in Jinhua rural area, the poet has a deep affection for the land in the south since he was a child. Subsequently, with the ups and downs of life, the poet has been to Shanghai, Changzhou, Shanxi and Shaanxi, and was deeply moved by the land in the north. As a singer of an era, how should a poet treat this land that bears and nurtures himself, this land with a long history, this land with deep disasters, and this land that is burning with the bonfire of the Anti-Japanese War? The poet can't restrain his burning emotion any longer, and he wants to express his strong love for this land. ...
This strong emotion is condensed into the poem "I love this land".
Judging from the title of this poem, it is obvious that the poet's intention is to highlight the word "love" firmly and unequivocally. And how did the poet write about his love for this land? Reading this poem made us fall in love with it.
The poet's love for the land has been expressed in many of his poems. However, it is rare for this poem to be so concentrated, so strong and so inspiring.
What's your feeling for the land? This poem can be said to be a confession of the poet. The poet expressed his feelings for the land in a "direct" lyric way. As serious as "oath" and as solemn as "blood".
The poet compares himself to a bird:
"If I were a bird,/I should also sing with a hoarse throat:/This land has been hit by a storm,/This river of sadness and indignation is always surging,/This angry wind is blowing endlessly,/There is an incomparably gentle dawn from the forest .../-Then I died,/Even my feathers rotted in the ground."
I am a bird, and I want to sing to death. Who are you singing for? The poet summed up the mission of "I" with four symbolic poems. These four poems have no specific reference, but they have expanded and deepened the connotation of this mission with more vivid and broader general references. The land that the poet loves deeply is experiencing a great historical struggle and great changes. In this land, it is no longer a stagnant pool, nor is it just desolation and suffering. The people are rising, the nation is awakening, and the "incomparably gentle dawn" is just around the corner ... As a bird, the poet will sing for this great era!
In order to accomplish his historical mission, the poet looks upon death as death. "-then I died,/even my feathers rotted in the ground." This sentence sharpened his determination and made the relationship between the poet and the land thorough. When I die, my flesh, bones and blood will be buried in the land, and my feathers will rot in the land, that is to say, everything I have will be dedicated to this land without reservation. ...
At this point, the poet's love for the land has been fully expressed. The phrase "even the feathers rot in the ground" is enough to shake people's hearts. However, the poet did not stop there, but shocked the readers again with the last two sentences:
"Why do I often have tears in my eyes? /Because I love this land deeply ... "
These two sentences are simple and clear, but they have earth-shattering power. Because these "tears" contain too many emotions! A thousand words, needless to say, everything is contained in this "tear".
Here, we see how the poet grasps his emotions well and how he expresses his emotions well!
What is a good poem? This kind of question often revolves in the reader's mind. Indeed, such a simple question is often difficult to answer. However, a good poem is a good poem after all, and there is a recognized truth.
Simply put, a poem that can be understood is not necessarily bad, not necessarily straightforward, and not necessarily tasteless. Poems that you can't understand are not necessarily good or profound. It depends on what the poet wrote and how. Ai Qing once said: "whether a poem is good or not cannot be measured by whether it can be understood;" Nor can the degree of human understanding be used as a measure of the value of a work. "
The poem "I love this land" is not difficult to understand, and its meaning is clear. And this poem is so outstanding and influential. This clearly shows that whether a poem with clear meaning can be created depends on the artistic strength of the poet.
The poem "I love this land" is the representative work of Wuhan poets. This poem, together with The North and other poems, marks another bumper harvest period for the poet. Poetry in this period occupies an important position on the poet's creative road. (Guo Baochen)
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Image Art in I Love This Land
Image is the basic element of poetic image composition, the unity of the poet's inner feelings and outer life images, and the tangible scene created by the poet through the fusion of "meaning" and "image". "I Love This Land" is one of Ai Qing's representative works, which was written at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, when the country was in peril and the mountains and rivers fell. It inevitably brought the tragic atmosphere of that era. Therefore, the images in his poems are bound to have this tragic color. After reading the whole poem, from the images of "land", "river", "wind" and "dawn", it is not difficult for us to taste the ups and downs and bitterness experienced by the author, as well as the deep love for the motherland, the people and the land.
"Land" is a common image of Ai Qing, which can be said to be his other life. The land of resurrection, snow falling on the land of China, the north, the wilderness (another chapter), the pond in winter and so on. , all contain his love for the land. He lamented for the poor land: "Snow falls on the land of China,/Cold blocks China ..." (Snow falls on the land of China) At the end of the poem, he wrote: "China,/My weak poem/Can I give you some warmth in the dark without lights?" He loves this land, and in the poem I Love this land, the author shows it incisively and vividly. The author assumes that he is a bird. If he wants to cut his throat, even his feathers will be buried underground. "Why do I often have tears in my eyes? /Because I love this land deeply ... "is the best interpretation of the image of land.
The "land" here is no longer a simple objective scenery, but an "image" that focuses on the author's subjective feelings. The author feels extremely sad for the old, weak and sick motherland. When the poet looked around with melancholy eyes, the carrier of lonely and barren wasteland-land entered the poet's mind. By praising the "image" of the land, the author curses those who destroy it and fantasizes that the land can be full of vitality. In the poem, the author's voice is hoarse but generous, sad but broad, showing a strong sense of life; Although primitive, it is vigorous and powerful, because land is the foundation of all things.
It is precisely because of this love and attachment to the land that the other three images in the poet's works flow downstream. Adding adjectives "surging forever" and "grief and indignation" before "river" and modifiers "blowing endlessly" and "irritating" before "wind" have turned these two external pure landscapes into "images" containing the author's subjective feelings, making people who are sad and angry persevere in saving the land. The image of "dawn" shows that the author firmly believes that there will be dawn and victory in the turbulent struggle of the people. But the author is still unfinished. "-Later I died, and even my feathers rotted in the land" expressed the author's persistent love for the land. The last two sentences "Why do I often have tears in my eyes?" ? Because I love this land deeply ... "The image of returning to the land deepens the theme of the article.
It can be seen that the use of images in poetry can make abstract emotions tangible, stimulate our rich association and imagination of unexpected images, and thus observe the meaning reflected by the author in poetry.