'The Poetry of Gu Cheng'

'On 8 October 1993, on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, Gu Cheng, one of the approximately well-known of chinas stuporous(menglong) poets attacked his wife Xie Ye(1958-1993) with an axe and then hung himself. Xie Ye died of outrage of blood on the plane pickings her to hospital, Gu Cheng died in his sisters arm after she cut him go through from the tree he hung himself from.\n\n\nGu Cheng, (September 24, 1956 October 8, 1993), was a prominent new Chinese poet, novelist and litterateur who influenced the Chinese literary circle for generations by his brilliant poems, essays and fair thoughts of ideas that he has forever been my absolute favorite(a) poet of all time.\n\nAs the result of anti-bourgeois apprehension of the Chinas Cultural Revolution, Gu chengs set about was accused of macrocosm capitalist and was exiled to the a rural deviate of Shandong province, where he was brocaded as a peasant without each formal education. The distinctive sense of disposition was forme d in his mind and provided a perfect go forth for his natural ingenuousness to grew which later denotative in his poems. In this case, really tugged a string in my heart.\n\nSense\nGu Cheng (1956-1993)\nThe sky is colourize\nThe roads atomic number 18 grizzly\nThe buildings be gray\nThe fallwater is gray\n\n with much(prenominal) at peace(predicate) neutral gray\ndeuce children walked by\n single ponceau\n one(a) viridescent\n\nThe poem was constructed with twain stanza; each with quaternary lines. However, the first stanza was irresistibly crowded with the pretext gray--sky, the roads, the buildings, even the rain is gray. I started acquiring a deed of confused as the poet just flood gray in my eyes until I realized Gu was just prognosticate and setting up for the color in the next stanza. thithers an whole different military man in the mho stanza:Through much(prenominal) dead ashy gray/Two children walked by/One ponceau/One viridescent examine how beautiful this is! Gu painted such a polished impressionism masterpiece by just precisely capturing three colors: gray, ponceau, ... '