The Poetry of Gu Cheng

On 8 October 1993, on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, Gu Cheng, one of the most long-familiar of chinaw bes bleary(menglong) poets attacked his wife Xie Ye(1958-1993) with an axe and then(prenominal) 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 visit him down from the tree he hung himself from.\n\n\nGu Cheng, (September 24, 1956 October 8, 1993), was a bad modern Chinese poet, novelist and essayist who influenced the Chinese literary travel for generations by his brilliant poems, essays and well-favoured thoughts of ideas that he has always been my unquestioning favorite poet of all time.\n\nAs the result of anti-bourgeois sentiment of the Chinas Cultural Revolution, Gu chengs father was accuse of being capitalist and was exiled to the a rural part of Shandong province, where he was raised as a peasant without any imposing education. The distinctive sense of reputation was formed in his headland an d provided a perfect household for his natural innocence to grew which after expressed in his poems. In this case, really tugged a train in my heart.\n\nSense\nGu Cheng (1956-1993)\nThe sky is greyish\nThe roadstead are gray\nThe buildings are gray\nThe rain is gray\n\n through with(predicate) such assassinated achromatic gray\n devil children walked by\n unmatched ponceau\nOne viridescent\n\nThe poem was constructed with two stanza; apiece with four lines. However, the first stanza was overpoweringly crowded with the color gray--sky, the roads, the buildings, plain the rain is gray. I started getting a bit of mazed as the poet upright flood gray in my look until I realized Gu was just foreshadowing and set up for the colourize in the next stanza. Theres an altogether different orb in the second stanza:Through such dead ashy gray/Two children walked by/One ponceau/One viridescent front how beautiful this is! Gu varicoloured such a slender impressionism masterpiece by just simply capturing three colors: gray, ponceau, ...