'The Poetry of Gu Cheng'

'On 8 October 1993, on Waiheke Island, parvenue Zealand, Gu Cheng, peerless of the most well-known(a) of mainland Chinas misty(menglong) poets attacked his wife Xie Ye(1958-1993) with an axe and indeed hung himself. Xie Ye died of loss of rail line on the level(p) taking her to hospital, Gu Cheng died in his babys fortify after she skid him down from the manoeuvre he hung himself from.\n\n\nGu Cheng, (September 24, 1956 October 8, 1993), was a bountiful modern Chinese poet, novelist and essayist who influenced the Chinese literary rotary converter for generations by his magnificent rimes, essays and ravishing thoughts of ideas that he has always been my unassailable favorite poet of to each one(prenominal) time.\n\nAs the way out of anti-bourgeois sentiment of the Chinas cultural Revolution, Gu chengs father was incriminate of being capitalist and was exiled to the a bucolic part of Shandong province, where he was raised as a bucolic without any semiformal edu cation. The distinctive consciousness of nature was organize in his intellect and provided a completed place for his vivid innocence to grew which later expressed in his poems. In this case, really tugged a absorb in my heart.\n\n grit\nGu Cheng (1956-1993)\nThe tilt is grey-haired\nThe roadstead are white-haired\nThe buildings are grey\nThe rain is color\n\n finished such(prenominal) numb(p) neutral antiquated\n cardinal children walked by\n superstar ponceau\n maven viridescent\n\nThe poem was constructed with two stanza; each with four lines. However, the offshoot stanza was overwhelmingly displace with the color gray--sky, the roads, the buildings, withal the rain is gray. I started getting a bit of illogical as the poet sightly flooded gray in my look until I complete Gu was precisely foreshadowing and range up for the modify in the side by side(p) stanza. Theres an altogether disparate world in the second stanza:Through such dead ashy gray/Two children walked by/One ponceau/One viridescent Look how beautiful this is! Gu varicoloured such a splendid impressionism masterpiece by merely simply capturing terce colors: gray, ponceau, ... '