Ideal is the stone that knocks out the spark of a star;
Ideal is the fire that ignites the extinguished lamp;
Ideal is the lamp that illuminates the road in the night;
Ideal is the road that leads you to the dawn.
Ideals are the way to lead you to the dawn.
Ideals are the way to feed yourself in times of starvation and cold;
Ideals are the way to civilize yourself in times of feeding yourself.
In the era of chaos, the ideal is stability;
In the era of stability, the ideal is prosperity.
Ideals are like pearls, one after another,
through the past and the present, stringing up the future, and glittering endlessly.
The beautiful pearl chain, the backbone of history,
the past shines on the present, the present shines on the future, and the ancestors shine on the descendants.
Ideal is the compass that guides the ship;
Ideal is the ship that carries you to the sea.
But sometimes ideals are the arcs where the sea and the sky kiss,
and the unattainable, tormenting your enterprising heart.
Ideals make you look at life with a smile;
Ideals make you fight against your destiny.
Ideals make you forget your gray hair;
Ideals make you gray and still naive.
Ideal is the alarm clock that breaks your golden dream;
Ideal is the soap that cleanses your selfish heart.
Ideal is an acquisition,
ideal is a sacrifice.
Ideal is a by-product if it brings you honor,
but more than that, it brings you the silence of misunderstanding,
the laughter in the silence, and the sorrow in the laughter.
Ideals bring misfortune to the faithful;
ideals bring life to the unfortunate.
Ideals are what make the faithful unfortunate;
Ideals are what make the unfortunate come back to life.
There are always people in the world who abandon their ideals,
but ideals never abandon anyone.
Ideal is the herb that gives a new life to the sinner;
Ideal is the loving mother that calls the prodigal son back to life.
Ideals are tarnished, no need to resent,
That is the demon testing your steadfastness;
Ideals are stolen, no need to cry,
Get it back, and be careful in the future!
The hero loses his ideals and is transformed into a mediocre man,
boasting disgustingly about his accomplishments; the mediocre man loses his ideals and spends his whole life,
cursing ridiculously about his immediate surroundings.
If ideals blossom, peaches and plums will bear sweet fruits;
if ideals sprout, elms and poplars will have thick shade.
Please ride on the horse of ideal, and set off from here,
The road is in perfect spring color, and the sun is shining in the sky.
I. Overall grasp
This poem is more "is the word sentence", more "make the word sentence", a series of "ideal is...", "the ideal is...", "the ideal is...", "the ideal is...", "the ideal is...". ...", a series of "ideals make ......", praising the significance of ideals. The last stanza says "please ride on the horse of ideal, waving the whip to start from here", hoping that people will set up great ideals and work hard for them. All in all, the poem is saying that one must have ideals in life. The poet praises ideals from many angles, and a series of figurative metaphors contain rich meanings.
Second, the study of the problem
1. The four metaphors in section 1, what is the metaphor?
It is not necessary to isolate the metaphorical meaning of each metaphor, from the stone to the fire, from the fire to the lamp, from the lamp to the road, the four metaphors are chained, which is also known as the rhetorical device "thimble. The first two metaphors pave the way for the third one, and the meaning of the poem lies mainly in the latter two metaphors. "Dawn" refers to the ideal state. In the long dark night, the ideal indicates the bright direction, so it is said that "Ideal is the lamp that illuminates the road at night;/Ideal is the road that leads you to the dawn", so the meaning of this stanza is mainly that the ideal is the direction to go forward. In the context of reality, it is very easy to understand. Marxism spread to China, the Chinese advanced elements set up the ideal of socialism***productivism, this ideal is like a lamp, illuminating the road at night. This ideal, like a road, leads the Chinese people to a bright new China, and leads them to socialist modernization. The first two metaphors, from the spark of a star, to ignite the lamp extinguished, said the process of spreading the ideal, for example, Li Dazhao and others spread Marxism at the earliest, ****productivist ideals in China is a spark; Marxism in China continues to spread, and become the guiding ideology of the Chinese ****productivist party, it is like a bright light.
2. The second stanza of the poem says that there are different ideals in different times, and ideals have their times, right? What else does it mean?
That's right. Ideals have a time, ideals have a hierarchy. The society is progressing and the ideals are improving. As society progresses, ideals are raised. When one need is satisfied, new needs and new ideals arise. In turn, the ideals are gradually raised, and society progresses. The punctuation of this section is noteworthy. In the first and third lines, there are semicolons at the end of the sentences, only two periods, and two sentences from two perspectives. Hunger and cold, food and clothing, and civilization are the living conditions. Disorder, stability, from the social order.
3. What is the meaning of verse 3? How is it related to verse 2?
Section 2 says, human ideals step by step, from food and clothing to civilization, from stability to prosperity, has a historical nature; section 3 from the historical perspective of human ideals, the ideals compared to pearls, human ideals are like a chain of pearls. Why is it the backbone of history? Because it is the ideals from generation to generation, so that human history continues to move forward, the ideal is the spiritual impetus for the continuous struggle of mankind. The word "shine" in the poem "Shine", not only follows the word "shining light", but also corresponds to the word "shine" in the first stanza of the poem. "The word "illuminate" in the first stanza of the poem is a reference to the ideals of our forefathers, which illuminate the path of our children and grandchildren. To summarize, the meaning of this stanza is that the ideals of mankind from generation to generation have driven the development of history.
4. What is the point of verse 4?
The focus is on the last two lines. "Ideal is a compass that guides the ship", and the third line of the first stanza, "Ideal is a lamp that illuminates the road at night", both say that ideal makes people clear direction. The fourth sentence of verse 1 says "Ideal is the road that leads you to the dawn", the dawn is bound to come, and this ideal is bound to be realized. The fourth stanza says another situation: "Ideal is sometimes the arc where the sea and the sky kiss, / Unattainable, tormenting your enterprising heart." What is said here is that the realization of the ideal, often through many setbacks and failures, or not as close as expected, initially underestimated the long-term nature, the more later the more you realize the enormity, the long-term nature.
5. What is the best way to summarize the main idea of section 5?
First, understand each line of the poem. "Ideals make you look at life with a smile." This means that ideals make people optimistic. For example, in the year of famine and cold, with the ideal of having enough to eat and drink, believing that you will be able to earn enough food and clothing with your hard work, you are full of hope, and your mood will be optimistic. "Ideal makes you stubbornly fight against fate", which means that ideal makes people full of fighting spirit, stubborn and unyielding struggle. For example, in the face of misfortune and bad luck, if you have an ideal and believe that bad luck can be overcome and the future is bright, you will fight relentlessly. "Ideal makes you forget the early white hair; / ideal makes your head white still naive", that is to say, the ideal makes the old man's mental age is very young, his heart is strong, the struggle is endless, it is the ideal to make him full of vitality.
The first is optimism, the second is fighting spirit, the third is vitality, and in general, it is power, including spiritual power. The general idea of this stanza can be summarized as follows: Ideals give people strength.
6. How to understand the sixth stanza? Does the word "sacrifice" mean that the dream of gold is shattered and selfishness is washed away?
Yes.
That's right. Obviously, the ideal that the poet is talking about is a noble social ideal, not a golden dream. A person wants to get rich, want to have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions of assets, is not what the poet said the ideal, even through the legitimate means to get rich is not what the poet said the ideal, not to mention, by illegal means to seize the money. Struggle for the lofty social ideals, it does not care about personal wealth, and all kinds of personal interests, he obtained for the ideals and struggle for the happiness of the ideal, the joy of the ideal realization, at the expense of other personal interests.
7. Why is it said that "if the ideal brings you honor, / it is only a by-product of it"? Why is it that "more often than not, it brings the silence of the misunderstood"? How can there be laughter in the silence? How can there be laughter in laughter?
The by-products of making something are called "by-products". Ideal is the pursuit of social food, civilization, stability, prosperity and so on, rather than personal honor. Ideal realization, society gives you honor, this honor is only a by-product of the ideal.
Silence, is silent, empty. People with high ideals are misunderstood, as if it were incomprehensible, as is often the case in history. The ideal is to change the status quo. But those who have not yet realized, always think that the status quo is justified, to change the status quo, in their view, is treason, madness, maniacs, avoid him, oppose him, the situation of the struggler is in the lonesome.
The man who has a heart for his ideals and fights for them enjoys the joy of the struggle, despite the loneliness of his situation, and so there is "laughter in the loneliness". But, after all, he was misunderstood and treated as an alien, so there are sorrows in the laughter.
8. What is the central meaning of verse 8?
The eighth stanza is divided into two large sentences, each with a semicolon between the first and second clauses. The first clause of the first sentence follows on from the previous one, and the word "misfortune" means "misunderstood silence" and "sorrow". The meaning of the two stanzas is transitive, and in prose, it would be "Ideals make the faithful unfortunate, but ideals bring the unfortunate back to life", so the emphasis is on the latter stanza. This stanza is about the significance of ideals in life. Ideals bring the unfortunate back to life, and make ordinary people great. The so-called "capital man" is the real man, the noble man, the great man.
9. What does verse 9 mean? How does it relate to the previous section?
Verse 9 says that anyone can set up an ideal, even a sinner, once set up an ideal, he can be reborn; even a prodigal son, once set up an ideal, "the prodigal son returns to his senses". "Ideal is the herb that restores the soul" means that a sinner is a sinner because he has lost his soul and is driven by evil thoughts to do wrong. If you set up an ideal, you will recover your conscience and restore your normal soul, and you will be able to be a human being again. "Ideal is a loving mother" means that ideal can guide the prodigal son on the right track.
10. What does verse 10 mean by "ideals tarnished" and "ideals stolen"?
It's easy to understand the historical context. Ten years of catastrophe, the "Gang of Four" distorted Marxism-Leninism, the implementation of their false Marxism-Leninism, ****productivist ideals were spoiled by them, tarnished. As a result of their destruction and defilement, some people's beliefs have been shaken, that is to say, their ideals have been stolen. Demons have defiled ideals, and it is a test to see if you can recognize the true and the false, and to believe in the true ideals, which can also be said to be "demons testing your steadfastness". The reason why the ideal will be pickpocketed, in their own side, but also because of the lack of perseverance, so that the first to retrieve, and the second to raise the alarm, "be careful in the future", to the ideal as life.
11. What is the connection between verse 11 and the above? Why is it "disgusting" to "boast about the achievements of the past"? Why is it "ridiculous" to "curse the present circumstances"?
The previous stanza says "pickpocketed", this stanza says "lost", the former is passive, the latter is subjective abandonment, there is a hierarchical relationship. And section 8 and constitute a positive and negative contrast, "ordinary people because of ideals and great", and "heroes lose ideals, metamorphosis into mediocrity", the two are reversed, the contrast is very clear. Positive and negative comparison, more prominent ideals for the importance of life.
Boasting about one's accomplishments and not making new ones is to eat old money, to lie on the book of achievements and to fight for fame and fortune, which is of course disgusting. "Cursing the immediate environment", but do not want to change the immediate environment and struggle, of course, ridiculous.
12. Section 12, "Ideal blossom" two sentences metaphor? The end of why not according to the "light up the road at night", but "the road is in perfect spring color, the sun in the sky is clear"?
"Ideal blossom" two lines is that today's ideal flower, is tomorrow's sweet fruit, today's ideal buds, is tomorrow's shade, set up an ideal, unremitting struggle, will achieve a fruitful harvest.
"The road spring color is just right, the sun in the sky is clear", symbolizing the great situation. The new historical period, with the sun in the sky and spring colors, is the best time for the Chinese people to realize their beautiful ideals.
13. Explore the pulse of the poem.
To explore the vein, first understand the general idea of each section, and then the similar ones together, it is easy to understand.
2 and 3 are similar and can be summarized by "the historical significance of the ideal".
Sections 4, 5, 6, and 7 are similar, and can be summarized by the phrase "the meaning of the ideal personality.
Sections 8, 9, 10 and 11 are similar and can be summarized by the phrase "the meaning of an ideal life".
It can be seen that the whole poem mainly praises the meaning of the ideal, from the historical significance, to the meaning of personality and the meaning of life.
The opening stanza summarizes the significance of ideals, and the last stanza inspires people to set up ideals and strive for them. This combined summary, the whole poem is clear.
The first stanza summarizes the meaning of ideals.