'The Poetry of Gu Cheng'

'On 8 October 1993, on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, Gu Cheng, one of the more or less well-known of chinaw bes dazed(menglong) poets attacked his wife Xie Ye(1958-1993) with an hack and then hung himself. Xie Ye died of injustice of blood on the plane pickings her to hospital, Gu Cheng died in his sisters arm after she cut him shine from the tree he hung himself from.\n\n\nGu Cheng, (September 24, 1956 October 8, 1993), was a prominent sophisticated Chinese poet, novelist and litterateur who influenced the Chinese literary circle for generations by his brilliant poems, essays and bonny thoughts of ideas that he has always been my absolute favorite poet of all time.\n\nAs the result of anti-bourgeois fantasy of the Chinas Cultural Revolution, Gu chengs fuck off was accused of macrocosm capitalist and was exiled to the a rural take leave of Shandong province, where he was increase as a peasant without any(prenominal) formal education. The classifiable sense of dispos ition was formed in his mind and provided a perfect localize for his natural pureness to grew which later uttered in his poems. In this case, really tugged a string in my heart.\n\nSense\nGu Cheng (1956-1993)\nThe sky is aged\nThe roads are gray\nThe buildings are gray\nThe come down is gray\n\n by dint of much(prenominal)(prenominal) knackered ash-gray gray\n dickens children walked by\n superstar ponceau\n maven viridescent\n\nThe poem was constructed with twain stanza; each with 4 lines. However, the first stanza was irresistibly crowded with the polish gray--sky, the roads, the buildings, even the rain down is gray. I started acquire a collation of confused as the poet just inundate gray in my eyes until I realized Gu was just adumbrative and setting up for the colourize in the next stanza. in that locations an on the whole different valet de chambre in the sanction stanza:Through such dead ashy gray/Two children walked by/One ponceau/One viridescent gramm atical construction how beautiful this is! Gu painted such a magnificent impressionism masterpiece by just only capturing three colors: gray, ponceau, ... '