The wind roared past ... thunder roared ... piles of dark clouds, like blue flames, burned in the bottomless sea. The sea catches lightning arrows and extinguishes them in its own abyss. These lightning shadows are like salamanders, swimming around in the sea and disappearing in an instant. -Storm! A storm is coming! This is the brave Haiyan, flying proudly in the roaring sea and in the middle of lightning; This is the prophet of victory shouting: "let the storm come more violently!"
Writing background:
Haiyan wrote in 190 1. At that time, there was an industrial crisis in Europe and the crisis spread to Russia. The Russian revolutionary movement continues to rise, and the revolutionary struggle is shaking the foundation of czar's rule. At this time, Gorky came to Petersburg to attend a meeting held by the Russian Writers' Association to commemorate the 40th anniversary of serf liberation, and to participate in demonstrations. Based on the experience of this struggle and the situation at that time, he wrote a short story with symbolic significance, The Melody of Spring. The famous Haiyan is its last chapter. It took a lot of twists and turns to publish, but once it was published, it had a great response in Russia and spread widely, and it became the most popular and propagandistic poetry leaflet for a time. Putting Haiyan on the sea before the storm is actually putting it on the eve of the Russian revolutionary movement. Haiyan is no longer an ordinary bird, but a symbol of proletarian revolutionary pioneers.