The Poetry of Gu Cheng

On 8 October 1993, on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, Gu Cheng, one of the most long-familiar of mainland Chinas blurred(menglong) poets attacked his wife Xie Ye(1958-1993) with an axe and wherefore hung himself. Xie Ye died of loss of blood on the plane taking her to hospital, Gu Cheng died in his sisters arm after she hack on him down from the tree he hung himself from.\n\n\nGu Cheng, (September 24, 1956 October 8, 1993), was a bragging(a) modern Chinese poet, novelist and essayist who influenced the Chinese literary wad for generations by his brilliant poems, essays and delightful thoughts of ideas that he has always been my domineering favorite poet of all time.\n\nAs the result of anti-bourgeois sentiment of the Chinas Cultural Revolution, Gu chengs father was incriminate of being capitalist and was exiled to the a rural part of Shandong province, where he was raised as a peasant without any form-only(prenominal) education. The distinctive sense of temperament was forme d in his heed and provided a perfect gear up for his natural innocence to grew which ulterior expressed in his poems. In this case, really tugged a absorb in my heart.\n\nSense\nGu Cheng (1956-1993)\nThe sky is remote\nThe roads are gray\nThe buildings are gray\nThe rain is gray\n\nthrough and through such bloodless ash-grey gray\n twain children walked by\n 1 ponceau\nOne viridescent\n\nThe poem was constructed with two stanza; distributively with four lines. However, the first stanza was overpoweringly crowded with the color gray--sky, the roads, the buildings, plane the rain is gray. I started acquiring a bit of split as the poet tho flood gray in my look until I realized Gu was just foreshadowing and put up for the color in in the next stanza. Theres an altogether different homo in the second stanza:Through such dead ashy gray/Two children walked by/One ponceau/One viridescent locution how beautiful this is! Gu variegated such a vivid impressionism masterpie ce by just simply capturing three colors: gray, ponceau, ...