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Haiyan?

The original name of NIZHNI NOVGOROD in Gorky City

On the vast sea, the wind gathered dark clouds. Between the dark clouds and the sea, Haiyan flies proudly like black lightning.

One moment its wings beat the waves, and the other moment it went straight into the dark clouds like an arrow. It cried, and in the brave cry of the birds, the dark clouds heard the joy.

In this cry-full of longing for the storm! In this cry, the dark clouds heard the power of anger, the flame of enthusiasm and the confidence of victory.

Seagulls groaned before the storm came-groaned, and they flew around the sea, trying to hide their fear of the storm in the depths of the sea.

The sea duck also groaned. They, sea ducks, can't enjoy the joy of fighting in life: thunderous thunder scares them.

Stupid penguins timidly hide their fat bodies under the cliff ... only arrogant petrels fly bravely and freely on the foam sea!

Dark clouds are getting darker and lower, pressing against the sea, while the waves are singing and rushing to the sky to meet the thunder.

Thunder roared. Waves cry in angry water droplets and contend with the wind. You see, the strong wind tightly rolled up layers of huge waves and slammed them on the cliff, smashing these large jadeites into dust and dust.

Haiyan cried and flew, like black lightning, like an arrow through the dark clouds, and its wings carried water droplets from the waves.

Look, it flies like an elf-a proud black storm elf-laughing, it is howling ... it is laughing at those dark clouds, it is howling happily!

This sensitive spirit-it has long recognized sleepiness from the thunder, and is convinced that dark clouds can't cover the sun-yes, they can't!

The wind roared past ... thunder roared ...

Piles of dark clouds, like blue flames, burn in the bottomless sea. The sea catches lightning arrows and extinguishes them in its own abyss. These lightning shadows, like salamanders, meander in the sea and disappear 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 get worse!

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Creation background

Haiyan is the last chapter of Gorky's short story The Melody of Spring, which was written in March 190 1 year.

As the industrial crisis that broke out in Europe in the19th century quickly spread to Russia, during the crisis years from 1900 to 1903, more than 3,000 large and small enterprises in Russia closed down and more than 65,438+10,000 workers were dismissed. Coupled with the growing darkness of the czar's rule, the people can't stand it, the resistance is rising day by day, and the revolutionary struggle is booming.

The Russian workers' movement began to turn from economic strike to political strike, to demonstration, to put forward political demands for democracy and freedom, and to put forward the political slogan of "overthrowing the czar's autocracy", which shook the czar's ruling foundation.

At that time, the people's revolutionary movement was surging, and the reactionary czar government stepped up its suppression of the people. It was a time of fierce fighting between revolution and counter-revolution.

Gorky arrived in Petersburg from Nizhny Novgorod (renamed Gorky City during the Soviet period and renamed it after the disintegration of the Soviet Union) on February/KOOC-0/90/KOOC-0/,attended a special meeting held by the Russian Writers Association to commemorate the 40th anniversary of serf liberation, and delivered a sharp speech attacking the czar government. On March 4th, he participated in a student demonstration near Kazan Cathedral in Petersburg and witnessed the bloody suppression of students by the Tsar's constitutional police.

He also signed an open letter written by some writers and social activists to protest against the atrocities of the czar's government. Return to Nizhny Novgorod on March 12.

Born at the bottom of society, Gorky knew the sufferings of the people at the bottom. After personally feeling the majestic momentum of the workers' movement and the students' movement, and witnessing the brutal crimes of the czar government in suppressing the students' movement, he enthusiastically praised the pioneers of the proletarian revolution, exposed the reactionary government of the czar, attacked opportunists and exposed the ugly faces of bourgeois liberals.

According to the struggle situation at that time and the feeling of participating in demonstrations, he wrote a short story with symbolic significance, Fantasia and Spring Tune. Finally, the famous prose poem Haiyan (it is estimated that the writing time of this work will not be earlier than March 14, nor later than March 24th).

Gorky personified birds in Melody of Spring, and added official titles and titles to some of them to satirize the representatives of various classes in Russian society and attack the rule of the czar, which could not be published at that time. Gorky wanted to publish it in Moscow's Courier, but it was rejected by the censor.

Gorky immediately sent the novel to Life magazine in St. Petersburg, which was also rejected by the censor, but its ending "The Song of Haiyan" was published separately in Life magazine in April of that year. This is due to the "negligence" of the czar's censorship authorities.

Posey, editor-in-chief of Life magazine, once recalled: "Haiyan was published after being examined in advance by the censor Ye Lageng, but he didn't see anything revolutionary about it." The censorship authorities soon discovered the serious mistakes caused by "negligence" and ordered the closure of Life magazine.