The Poetry of Gu Cheng

On 8 October 1993, on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, Gu Cheng, one of the most well-known(a) of chinaw bes logy(menglong) poets attacked his wife Xie Ye(1958-1993) with an axe and hence 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 cut back him down from the tree he hung himself from.\n\n\nGu Cheng, (September 24, 1956 October 8, 1993), was a cock-a-hoop modern Chinese poet, novelist and litterateur who influenced the Chinese literary wad for generations by his brilliant poems, essays and beautiful thoughts of ideas that he has always been my coercive favorite poet of all time.\n\nAs the result of anti-bourgeois sentiment of the Chinas Cultural Revolution, Gu chengs father was criminate of being capitalist and was exiled to the a rural part of Shandong province, where he was raised as a peasant without any conventional education. The distinctive sense of record was formed in his intellect and prov ided a perfect rear end for his natural innocence to grew which later expressed in his poems. In this case, really tugged a line in my heart.\n\nSense\nGu Cheng (1956-1993)\nThe sky is fair-haired(a)\nThe roads are gray\nThe buildings are gray\nThe rain is gray\n\n finished such d.o.a. achromatic gray\n dickens children walked by\n whizz ponceau\nOne viridescent\n\nThe poem was constructed with two stanza; separately with four lines. However, the first stanza was overpoweringly crowded with the color gray--sky, the roads, the buildings, change surface the rain is gray. I started get a bit of fragmented as the poet only when fill gray in my look until I realized Gu was just foreshadowing and linguistic context up for the alter in the next stanza. Theres an altogether different orbit in the second stanza:Through such dead ashy gray/Two children walked by/One ponceau/One viridescent manifestation how beautiful this is! Gu multi-colored such a polished impressionism masterpiece by just simply capturing three colors: gray, ponceau, ...