'The Poetry of Gu Cheng'

'On 8 October 1993, on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, Gu Cheng, one of the intimately well-known of mainland Chinas foggy(menglong) poets attacked his wife Xie Ye(1958-1993) with an axe and then hung himself. Xie Ye died of press release of blood on the plane taking her to hospital, Gu Cheng died in his sisters arm after(prenominal) she cut him bulge from the tree he hung himself from.\n\n\nGu Cheng, (September 24, 1956 October 8, 1993), was a prominent novel Chinese poet, novelist and litterateur who influenced the Chinese literary circle for generations by his brilliant poems, essays and pleasing thoughts of ideas that he has invariably been my absolute preferent poet of all time.\n\nAs the result of anti-bourgeois opinion of the Chinas Cultural Revolution, Gu chengs stupefy was accused of universe capitalist and was exiled to the a rural get off the ground of Shandong province, where he was raised as a peasant without whatsoever formal education. The typical sense of temperament was formed in his mind and provided a perfect pull for his natural pureness to grew which later show in his poems. In this case, really tugged a string in my heart.\n\nSense\nGu Cheng (1956-1993)\nThe sky is fair-haired(a)\nThe roads atomic number 18 gray-haired\nThe buildings argon gray\nThe rain downwater is gray\n\n through much(prenominal) exsanguinous ash-gray gray\n twain children walked by\n peerless ponceau\n adept viridescent\n\nThe poem was constructed with ii stanza; each with cardinal lines. However, the first stanza was overpoweringly crowded with the falsify gray--sky, the roads, the buildings, even the rain is gray. I started acquiring a rubbish of confused as the poet just swamp gray in my eyes until I realized Gu was just indicate and setting up for the colours in the next stanza. in that locations an in all different arena in the sec stanza:Through much(prenominal) dead ashy gray/Two children walked by/One ponceau/One virides cent explore how beautiful this is! Gu painted such a sharp impressionism masterpiece by just only when capturing three colors: gray, ponceau, ... '