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"The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find light!" This little poem is the full text of a generation. The author is a modern poet Gu Cheng, born in 1956, who immigrated to New Zealand and committed suicide in 1993. Gu Cheng, like Xu Zhimo, is also a poet who lives in a dream and is known as "a writer who touched China".

A generation's interpretation;

The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light. It was selected from the Star, No.3, 1980. Vico, an Italian historical philosopher, waved his sword neatly 300 years ago, cutting off the thinking connection between poetry and philosophy. However, in the past 300 years, poets have spread the seeds hidden in images and cultivated the "symbolic forest". Through corresponding means, poetry and philosophy were successfully unified. Generation seems to be a proof that in the unity of opposites between black and light, two short poems have crossed the walls of Vico's handiwork smartly, and the abstract philosophical implication is presented to the world in a charming way through appearances.

"The night gave me black eyes". These two "blacks" are undoubtedly "literary eyes" and are worth pondering. We know that "black" is not a color. The so-called color is the result of all kinds of light waves reflected by objects. If it doesn't reflect, it turns black. Of course, the world without light can only be dark Therefore, "black" is the result of killing all the light, and night is the tomb of light, which is a suffocating symbol of a specific era. However, "black eyes" is undoubtedly the rebellion of the night. Its blackness is "endowed" by the night, and it is also the result of the night blocking the light. In addition, black eyes are not a symbol of abandoning light, but a symbol of longing for light. Because black does not reflect light, it has the characteristic of completely absorbing light. Black eyes are the eyes of this generation ready to absorb light at any time. From another point of view, black eyes also reflect the critical spirit, which is a deep denial of the great arrogance of black to black and night. Compared with the colorful bright world, black is an end, which is opposite to light. However, the extremes meet, and the black eyes rebellious from the dark night are definitely easier to accept the light than the eyes of any color. In other words, the great awakening of the "generation" coming from the specific black age is beyond the reach of other people in out of the dark. Two short poems, with grand topics and themes, fully show the symbolic charm in the unity of opposites.

Judging from the author's life course, the night in the poem seems to be a "ten-year catastrophe", and "a generation" of course refers to the contemporary China people who grew up in this particular historical stage. However, after all, poetry is not history, and the capacity of poetry can often be infinitely expanded by the magic of art. If we transcend time and space, we can easily see the image of "a generation" in people of different eras such as Qu Yuan, Du Fu and Lu Xun. They all live in the "dark night" and have a particularly keen "black". . .

Attend to city's introduction:

Gu Cheng was a boy with big eyes when he was a child. At the age of ten, he read The Story of Insects by Fabres, a French entomologist, and began to think naively about people's fate. The insect world told him that every tiny life has its own life. Gradually, he found that he could hear the sound of everything changing and growing between heaven and earth, which was the sound of his own life changing and growing. This is the same sound. What first made him feel poetic was raindrops. "The world shining in raindrops is purer and better than the world we live in." In nature, he "felt countless lifeless and lifeless histories." But it's hard to write this feeling into poetry! The shock of the great beauty of nature made his body "full of a subtle trembling". How much he wanted to write "The light on that cloud shook like a flame".

In the "misty poetry" era of the last century, Gu Cheng was a special existence. On 1979, he wrote the famous poem "Generation" in only two sentences, which became the spiritual motto of the "generation" who just woke up from the disaster: "The night gave me black eyes, but I used it to find light". After that, a young and childish poet, in the starry sky of new poetry, crossed a short decade.

If we need to select the fairy tale poets in China in the 20th century, I think only Xu Zhimo in the 20th century and Gu Cheng in the 1980s are qualified. On the issue of love, they all regard it as the whole meaning of life. Whoever has love will have happiness. The success of love is the success of life, and the failure of love is the failure of life; They are wayward children who don't grow up, and they all have simple life beliefs. The ideal life that Xu Zhimo wants to pursue is all contained in his "simple belief", one is "love", the other is "freedom" and the other is "beauty". While "Gu Cheng" indulged in his own illusion. "True childlike innocence is still a valuable artistic spirit". Comparatively speaking, perhaps Gu Cheng is more melancholy and paranoid at the end of the century in temperament.

Gu Cheng believes that "the poet's job is to collect broken life and restore its natural integrity." He revered Andersen, who, like him, was a clumsy carpenter in cold northern Europe. "You take a kingdom of heaven/balloons with flowers and dreams/all innocent childishness/all your ports."

Gu Cheng, like Xu Zhimo, is a poet living in a dream. Dreams are far from reality, which is a question of distance. Poetry is faint, and poetry is indifferent. Honesty between people is far and near, and he would rather choose "cloud" than "you". "Cloud" is far and near, "You" is near and far. The poet's final tragedy is not caused by the "distance" and "proximity" of love. He has a "fantasy beyond reality" and strives to pursue a simple and isolated world. He only has her/himself, and the trembling Arctic Ocean.

Gu Cheng's death consciousness and death complex are extremely strong. When he felt that the love used to fight death could not be "far away from the coming night", he dedicated himself as "an ear of barley" to death. The pain of despair makes the courage of existence seem so helpless in the face of death, and the desire to attend to the city is obviously the poet's "childlike innocence" desire.

If the love triangle between Gu Cheng and Xie Ye, Ying Er or Gu Cheng and Ying Er and "another man" happened today, it wouldn't be shocking. But in such an era of China, there are still earth-shattering things happening. According to the general understanding, their relationship is nothing more than the empathy of a man or a woman. But three of the quartet are "poets", which is not so common. I never doubt that the love of either side is sincere and unforgettable. As for whether Yinger lied, he invented the first night of rape; It doesn't matter whether it destroys a beautiful family.

Although Gu Cheng is a poet, despite his childishness, he is still a man with secular desires. As a person, he is also a poet. Therefore, these two women are regarded as women of desire in his mind, and they are also artistic treasures of the world.

His love for Xie Ye is real and poetic; Love for Yinger is also poetic and true. When he was a poet, he didn't cheat the feelings of two women. But his "Don Quixote idea" made him try his best to create an "Eden" where Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit but pretended not to eat it-New Zealand's "Riptide Island"; When he was a man, he "selfishly" wanted to possess the feelings and bodies of two people, thinking that eating the forbidden fruit would only put the blame on Satan. The poet's art and the man's physical desire coexist in The Ancient City.

Gu Cheng had a clear understanding of himself for a long time. I am a paranoid person, and I like absoluteness. Finally, it is this "paranoia" and "absolutism" that makes him crazy and irrational, "killing" his wife and "killing" the mother of his children. 1993 10 10 On October 8th, a wife who was extremely happy and deeply in love with her husband died under the axe of her husband who also deeply loved her.

Gu Cheng said, "After the soul is quiet/blood will flow for many years." At the last minute, is he a neurotic crazy poet, completing a fairy tale for Andersen? In this bloody fairy tale, he is taking revenge on a woman who is about to leave him. I believe/everything is a seed/only after being buried/can we live.

"A ghost is as calm as water, but once disturbed, it will destroy everything." This "ghost" is Gu Cheng himself. When he was disturbed by love in "a quiet house, a place where he can dream undisturbed" and "calm as water", he really destroyed everything. Because he knew, "the dead didn't disappear. Ghosts dissolve in air, dusk, lights and everyone. "

Death may be the best reward for Gu Cheng's childlike innocence. The mystery of his death disappeared at the moment of his death, and the understanding of future generations is often just to weave a bloody wreath in memory. In his view, the first condition to become a great poet is the soul. "A soul that is always awake, smiling and in pain, a soul that looks at the reflection of the wine glass and everything and its own soul, a soul that looks at the blood, thoughts and emotions on the river bank, a soul that is loved and driven by the CD-ROM drive, moves forward in the illusion of layers of objects."