Guo Xiaochuan's ode to the coal capital

Guo Xiaochuan's poems are the most contradictory poems to me, and Guo Xiaochuan's people are the most puzzling poets.

As one of the most famous political lyric poets at the beginning of the founding of New China, Guo Xiaochuan used his most passionate language to infect countless people who were preparing to devote their lives to the new China. From Guo Xiaochuan's life, we can easily find that he has no higher education, but this does not affect the cultivation of his poetic temperament, and even helps him to create a different poetic style. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he "joined the Red Army and went to the front with tears", worked in the "Struggle Drama Club" of the Political Department of the 359th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army120th Division, and joined the China * * * Production Party in the same year, from which he began his political lyrical career. It can be said that he is a red poet who supports the work of our party from the heart to the action.

When it comes to Guo Xiaochuan's poems, we have to talk about his personal character, and reading one's letters and diaries is the best way to understand one's personality. From Guo Xiaochuan's letter to his wife, we can easily see Guo Xiaochuan's burning passion and infinite love for the socialist cause. Because you will be surprised to find from the letters from home that Guo Xiaochuan's letter format started with "Dear Hui Jun" and "My dearest person" and ended with "Kiss you" and "Kiss you again" until he was 47 years old. This is enough to prove that this passionate man has a natural poet potential. Perhaps it is the reason of the times, but also the reason of personal belief. In his letters, Guo Xiaochuan often mentioned that he hoped his wife would work and study actively (Marxism), and because he was a member of the Chinese Writers Association and a special correspondent of the People's Daily, his understanding of the spirit of various meetings and leaders' speeches was almost described in the letter in the tone of mainstream media, and even his wife could say "of course" when she entered Xingtai ultra-leftwing, which showed his consistent support for the new China and his loyalty to the socialist cause (of course, he wrote "Looking at the Starry Sky")

In several letters after 1969, the author swept away the enthusiasm and brightness of the past and replaced it with a low and calm. Ten years after the Cultural Revolution, Guo Xiaochuan and his wife also entered the ultra-leftwing and were persecuted. At the end of the Cultural Revolution, as a "latent writing" at first, Guo Xiaochuan wrote poems such as Autumn in Tuanbowa. This can be said to be his masterpiece on the road of poetry creation and the last aspiration of a political lyric poet.

Knowing this, we can walk into this poet with an objective attitude and a historical perspective, and into the most legendary poetry world in the 1950s and 1970s.

Two "A Fire in Winter" —— Poems by Nana Ogawa

196 1 As a relatively successful poem in To Young Citizens, March on Difficulties-To Young Citizens written at the beginning had a considerable influence on young readers at that time. This poem is written in the form of Mayakovski's Stairs. At first glance, we can clearly feel all the characteristics of political lyrics, such as "let's March into difficulties with a hundred times of courage and perseverance;" Not only in words/but also in actions/we are real citizens ... "and other sentences make a kind of propaganda and agitation overflow, and the poet himself said," At that time, the great call for socialist construction and socialist revolution has resounded through the sky, and I can't help writing a political sentence with the gesture of propaganda drum mobilization, just like writing a mobilization slogan on a rural wall during War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's period. "We know that once poetry is aimed at propaganda and agitation, it is easy to lack connotation and appear stiff and dry. In order to avoid empty words, the author quoted many images to pave the way for political theory, such as the opening "horses/flying on flat ground/sometimes afraid to cross/rushing rivers;" Wild geese/love to sing heroic marches in spring/are full of sadness when they meet with severe winter/songs. "Although not exquisite, but also played a very good role in resolving emotions. Many people think that this poem is rougher than the poet's later poems and lacks artistic tempering. The author himself said, "At that time, I didn't think too much about artistic expression in my creation, nor did I pay attention to capturing and accumulating images and language in my life. I just wrote it casually and expressed my feelings without modification. "But I think this poem is more natural and fluent than many later works in terms of freedom of language and accuracy of words. China's poems have a saying that "words don't hurt meaning" since ancient times. In A Dream of Red Mansions, Lin Daiyu even pointed out that writing and style are the last things. First, intention is important; Moreover, it is taboo to change the word into rhyme. Guo Xiaochuan's poems, especially those that have been "tempered by art", are often suspected of being "taboo", and some words are slightly stiff and far-fetched. Of course, due to the limitation of the times, we can't be strict with everything of our predecessors. This is just a superficial view. In a word, this poem has made an outstanding example in the fusion of lyricism, philosophy of life and political propaganda, and "stood at the peak of the poetry with the same theme at that time" (Yang Kuanghan and Yang Kuangman: Guo Xiaochuan, soldier and poet).