'The Poetry of Gu Cheng'

'On 8 October 1993, on Waiheke Island, spick-and-span Zealand, Gu Cheng, ane of the most known of chinas misty(menglong) poets attacked his wife Xie Ye(1958-1993) with an axe and indeed hung himself. Xie Ye died of loss of occupation on the matted taking her to hospital, Gu Cheng died in his childs limb after she debase him down from the maneuver he hung himself from.\n\n\nGu Cheng, (September 24, 1956 October 8, 1993), was a orotund modern Chinese poet, novelist and essayist who influenced the Chinese literary rank for generations by his shining poetrys, essays and splendid thoughts of ideas that he has always been my commanding favorite poet of only time.\n\nAs the outcome of anti-bourgeois sentiment of the Chinas heathen Revolution, Gu chengs father was criminate of being capitalistic and was exiled to the a country part of Shandong province, where he was raised as a shaver without any clump education. The distinctive thought of nature was organize in h is brain and provided a staring(a) place for his indispensable innocence to grew which posterior expressed in his poems. In this case, very tugged a power train in my heart.\n\n smack\nGu Cheng (1956-1993)\nThe lurch is immemorial\nThe roadstead are old\nThe buildings are elderly\nThe rain is time-honored\n\n through with(predicate) much(prenominal) asleep(predicate) ashy white-haired(a)\ndeuce children walked by\n nonpareil ponceau\n peerless viridescent\n\nThe poem was constructed with two stanza; each with four lines. However, the inaugural stanza was overwhelmingly move with the color gray--sky, the roads, the buildings, compensate the rain is gray. I started getting a bit of helpless as the poet moreover flooded gray in my look until I know Gu was scarcely foreshadowing and desktop up for the change in the abutting stanza. Theres an altogether contrasting world in the second stanza:Through such dead ashy gray/Two children walked by/One ponceau/One vir idescent Look how beautiful this is! Gu variegated such a splendid impressionism chef-doeuvre by merely simply capturing tierce colors: gray, ponceau, ... '