To the oak tree.

I/if/love you

Never liked/climbed/liked trees,

Lend you/Gao Zhi/show off yourself;

I/if/love you-

Never be infatuated with birds,

For dark/repetitive monotony/songs;

Not just like fountains,

Perennial/delivery/cool/comfortable;

This is not only a dangerous peak,

Increase/your height, foil/your dignity.

Uniform/sunny.

Even number/spring rain.

No, these/not enough!

I/must be you/nearby/a plant/kapok,

As the image of the tree/standing with you/.

Root/,clenched in/underground;

Leaves/collide in the/cloud.

Every time a gust of wind blows,

We/everyone exchange/greet each other,

But/no one,

Understand/our/words.

You/have your/copper branches/iron stems,

Like a knife, like a sword, like a halberd;

I/have me/safflower,

Like/heavy/sigh,

Like/hero/torch again.

We/share the cold wave/,wind and thunder/,thunderbolt;

We/* * * enjoy the mist/,flowing mist/and rainbow.

As if/forever apart,

However/for life.

This is/greatness/love,

Loyalty/Right here:

Love-not only love your strong body,

I love you too/the position you stand for, the land you step on/.

To Oak is a love poem written by Shu Ting in March 1977. It is one of the representative works of the misty poetry school. As a pioneering work of literature in the new period, To the Oak is self-evident in the history of literature. Through the "confession" of the kapok tree to the oak tree, the author denies the secular and unequal view of love, calls for freedom, equality and independence, and shouts out the slogan of equality between men and women in love, and sends out the declaration of independence of women's yearning for love in the new era.

"To Oak" is Shu Ting's famous work, and Shu Ting himself admits: "10 years, I have written a lot of essays, and the total amount has far exceeded poetry. But most readers only remember my poems and often equate my name with an oak tree. " In the book True Water Without Fragrance, she recalled the prototype and creative process of To the Oak.

1975 Cai Qijiao, an old returned overseas Chinese poet who once helped her a lot in writing, visited Gulangyu Island. That night, when Shu Ting accompanied him for a walk, Cai Qijiao told her about the girl she met in her life. It was bold to talk openly about liking girls in the 1970s. Cai Qijiao said that there are beautiful girls, but no talent; Talented girls are not beautiful; Beautiful, talented and fierce, he found it difficult to find a perfect girl. Shu Ting said that she was very angry after listening to it. She thinks this is male chauvinism and men and women should be equal. So that night, she wrote a poem "Oak Tree" and gave it to Cai Qijiao. Later, when it was published, it was changed to To Oak.

To Oak-Baidu Encyclopedia