This poem directly links the sacrifice of martyrs with the arrival of spring. In addition to expressing the author's anger and hatred for the reactionaries' crazy slaughter, it also shows a firm belief that any crazy suppression and slaughter is useless, and the price paid by the martyrs is to usher in a better spring.
This poem is ingenious in conception and rigorous in structure, which makes good use of the characteristics that people's imagination can be transformed.
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The poem "Spring" was written in April 1937. Ai Qing said: "This is written to commemorate the five martyrs of the Left Alliance. Hu Feng took it and published it in Life and Learning. " Rou Shi, Yin Fu, Hu Yepin, Li Weisen and Feng Keng, five young revolutionaries, writers and poets, were brutally killed by Kuomintang reactionaries in Longhua. This is an important event in history, which shocked the whole country at that time.
Faced with this cruel and serious incident, revolutionary poets and writers are filled with indignation. As a young poet at that time, Ai Qing was also furious. How can we express our feelings, expose the evils of the Kuomintang reactionaries, eulogize the revolutionary spirit of the five martyrs and arouse the people?
In order to reflect this event, the poet could have had many choices. You can express your mind directly, gush out like a dagger, directly and concretely describe the scene of the heroic sacrifice of five martyrs, or write a long poem about the revolution of five martyrs. The poet had no such choice, and finally chose spring.
This choice is unique. Because this not only grasps the essence of the event at once, but also grasps the cut-in angle, which can express the theme more vividly and concisely. Poets always write "Spring" around "Peach Blossom". The image of "peach blossom" has become the key to the success of this poem. Let's see how the poet develops step by step.
At the beginning of the poem, the poet pointed out "spring" and "peach blossom": "Spring has passed/Longhua peach blossom blooms". This is both real writing and imaginary writing. Fact: Five martyrs died in spring, spring, peach blossoms.
Virtual writing: this "spring" and this "peach blossom" are symbolic, symbolizing the light and symbolizing the new society. Of course, just looking at these two sentences, you can't see this symbolic meaning. Only by using the following poems can you understand.
Only by reading these two sentences, it is difficult for readers to guess what the poet wrote next. After reading the following poem, you can't help but marvel at the poet's ingenious turning point, and this turning point is extremely natural.
The phrase "It blooms in those nights" points out the environment in which the peach blossoms bloom-at night, the poet seized this "night" and began to describe it: it pointed out that those nights were "bloody", "no starlight", "windy" and "listening to the widow's sobs".
In our opinion, it is not only natural for the poet to write "peach blossom" but also an intention of the poet: the poet did not directly write the ferocious face of the executioner or their cruelty. Only these words have already revealed the cruelty of the executioner.
What a shocking picture these words make! The poet's complaint, the poet's anger also arises spontaneously!
Then, naturally, the poet expanded this cruelty, this accusation and anger to further expand the connotation of the poem: "This ancient land is like a hungry beast/sucking the blood of young people/tenacious people". Here, the poet skillfully put the pen on the description of "blood", which not only emphasized "blood" but also further emphasized the cruelty of "beast", further enhanced the power of accusation and anger, and paved the way for later poems.
"So after a long winter/a season of ice and snow/infinite expectation of sleepiness/these bloodstains/blood stains/in the mythical night/in the dark night of the East/blooming countless buds/decorating Jiangnan everywhere with spring."
These poems skillfully link "blood" with "peach blossom" and "spring", which implicitly expresses the profound significance of the five martyrs' blood sacrifice and also writes the poet's respect for the heroic sacrifice of the five martyrs.
At the same time, it also wrote the poet's confidence in the future-the blood of these martyrs will not flow in vain, and spring will definitely come! Although we still have to experience "the long winter", "the season of ice and snow" and "the expectation of infinite sleepiness", it will definitely come!
The poem begins with "Peach Blossom" and "Spring", which is not only complete, but also has a wide range of connotations, and the symbolic meanings of "Peach Blossom" and "Spring" are also understood by readers. The connection between "peach blossom" and "blood stain" is the key to the poet's conception and the success of this poem.
The poem ended here. It could have ended. But the poet did not stop there, and later wrote two more sentences: "People ask: Where does spring come from? /I said: from the tomb hole in the suburbs. "
These two sentences are the crowning touch, condensed from the whole connotation of this poem and played an inspiring role. The arrival of spring has brought the heroic sacrifice of thousands of martyrs, and this kind of thinking is more concentrated. The poet said, "In my years when I was not free, I sang freedom, I was an oppressed nation, and I sang liberation." The poem Spring is a masterpiece of the poet's belief.
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