The Poetry of Gu Cheng

On 8 October 1993, on Waiheke Island, impudently Zealand, Gu Cheng, one of the closely well-known of Chinas misty(menglong) poets attacked his wife Xie Ye(1958-1993) with an ax and then hung himself. Xie Ye died of loss of logical argument on the plane taking her to hospital, Gu Cheng died in his babys arm after(prenominal) she cut him down from the shoetree he hung himself from.\n\n\nGu Cheng, (September 24, 1956 October 8, 1993), was a prominent modern Chinese poet, novelist and essayist who influenced the Chinese literary circle for generations by his smart poems, essays and beautiful thoughts of ideas that he has etern each(prenominal)y been my absolute favorite poet of all time.\n\nAs the result of anti-bourgeois impression of the Chinas ethnical Revolution, Gu chengs arrest was accused of being capitalistic and was exiled to the a rural bring out of Shandong province, where he was raised as a peasant without each formal education. The distinctive common sense of nature was formed in his mind and provided a accurate place for his natural pureness to grew which later expressed in his poems. In this case, really tugged a string in my heart.\n\n whizz\nGu Cheng (1956-1993)\nThe sky is colouriseiseness\nThe roads are grizzly\nThe buildings are gray\nThe pelting is gray\n\nThrough such all of a sudden ashy gray\n dickens children walked by\n hotshot ponceau\n genius viridescent\n\nThe poem was constructed with two stanza; each with four lines. However, the premiere stanza was overwhelmingly crowded with the color gray--sky, the roads, the buildings, even the rain is gray. I started getting a pip of confused as the poet yet flooded gray in my eyes until I cognize Gu was just omen and setting up for the modify in the next stanza. thithers an altogether divers(prenominal) world in the stake stanza:Through such dead ashy gray/Two children walked by/One ponceau/One viridescent Look how beautiful this is! Gu painted such a splendid imp ressionism masterpiece by just simply capturing tierce colors: gray, ponceau, ...