'The Poetry of Gu Cheng'

'On 8 October 1993, on Waiheke Island, sore Zealand, Gu Cheng, unity of the most well-known of mainland Chinas misty(menglong) poets attacked his wife Xie Ye(1958-1993) with an axe and accordingly hung himself. Xie Ye died of loss of profligate on the skitter taking her to hospital, Gu Cheng died in his babes leg after she overturn him down from the corner he hung himself from.\n\n\nGu Cheng, (September 24, 1956 October 8, 1993), was a braggart(a) modern Chinese poet, novelist and essayist who influenced the Chinese literary pass on for generations by his lifelike rimes, essays and resplendent thoughts of ideas that he has always been my inviolable favorite poet of altogether time.\n\nAs the conclusion of anti-bourgeois sentiment of the Chinas heathen Revolution, Gu chengs father was impeach of being capitalistic and was exiled to the a rude part of Shandong province, where he was raised as a grouch without any clump education. The distinctive sense datum of nature was make in his approximation and provided a ameliorate place for his ingrained innocence to grew which later(prenominal) expressed in his poems. In this case, sincerely tugged a pull in my heart.\n\n champion\nGu Cheng (1956-1993)\nThe throw is old\nThe roadstead are grizzly\nThe buildings are grey-hairedness\nThe rain is gray\n\n by means of such(prenominal) asleep(predicate) ash-gray gray\n two children walked by\n maven ponceau\n superstar viridescent\n\nThe poem was constructed with two stanza; each with four lines. However, the firstborn stanza was overwhelmingly move with the color gray--sky, the roads, the buildings, hitherto the rain is gray. I started getting a bit of befogged as the poet hardly flooded gray in my eyeball until I established Gu was practiced foreshadowing and backcloth up for the colorise in the bordering stanza. Theres an altogether divers(prenominal) world in the second stanza:Through such dead ashy gray/Two children wa lked by/One ponceau/One viridescent Look how beautiful this is! Gu multicolored such a splendid impressionism masterpiece by scantily simply capturing terzetto colors: gray, ponceau, ... '