Chapter 46 Section 10 Lei, Ma, Ping, E

While reading and reciting "The Song of the Skylark", the principal Wang Xinggong suddenly summoned the teachers and students in the square in front of the Confucian Temple and announced an important message: the war was defeated, and the Japanese army might invade Sichuan. The Ministry of Education ordered all schools to go to safe areas in case of emergency. retreat.Designate Wuhan University to be protected by the headquarters of the Jiading Divisional Area, and if necessary, retreat into the "Leima Ping'e" Yi Autonomous Region in the Daliang Mountains on the border between Sichuan and Kangxi.The students are all adults, so don't panic, but you must be mentally prepared.

I seldom see the president in the university, and even less listen to him.I remember that day in the cold wind of early spring, President Wang, one of the early Chinese chemistry scholars and one of the founders of Wuhan University, was wearing his old robes, with a thin face and a sad tone. In this year, there will never be a day of giving up, and everyone must do their best. The Ministry of Education ordered all schools to continue singing until the last day." After sixty years, I have traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers, and the four words "Leima Ping'e" sounded in my heart from time to time with a solemn voice.Represents a kind of final security.There is no dead end in life. Under any circumstances, "Singing without stopping" is the greatest reliance on my life.

I wrote a letter to my parents, if Chongqing falls.How did I find my way home when I arrived at Leima Ping'e? Ten days later, my father wrote an express letter, which said briefly and forcefully, "The domestic front is too wide, and it is really difficult at present, but the situation of the Allied forces in the Pacific and Europe is getting worse It's getting better. My son will be safe by following the school, no matter how the battle situation changes, I will definitely find you in my lifetime." It was a period of real panic, sleeping on a wooden bed at night, thinking about the difficult situation of having to walk three hundred miles of dry road.In the girls' dormitory, there is a legend among senior classmates. The soldiers in Jiading's division said: These female students are usually so proud.When I went into the mountains with the army, I couldn't be proud.Some people also said that this is a rumor deliberately created by leftist "progressive elements".Some male students in the senior class suggested to the school that a team of 200 boys and girls should be assigned to accompany the army into the mountains.

In such anxious days, at the beginning of April 1945, in the Confucian Temple full of strings and songs, I read Keats's poems for the first time. The first one is written in the rhythm of the sonnet called "dancing with fetters". When he first read the new translation of the epic, he was like the ecstasy of an explorer discovering a new mountain. I can't read his ecstasy.Bombs are falling on all sides of my world. The roar of the falling bombs and the bursting sea of ​​flames, from near to far, and from far to near, trap me in this mountain city in the west of Sichuan, where three rivers meet.Not even here is safe now.I don't understand how he "discovered" a new style of poetry with his friends, read from dark to dawn, and at dawn, walked three miles under the stars back to the small house where he lived, and wrote these immortal fourteen lines in one breath Joy, send it to your friends by express mail...Since this poem, he exhausted his life's talents in five years, and died of vomiting blood at the age of twenty-six.

Five years is a long time for me, twenty-six is ​​still far away, and I don’t know what tomorrow will look like after today? My father said in his letter that he will find me in his "lifetime". He is forty-six years old this year , What does "lifetime" mean? I have an ominous feeling in my heart. When Teacher Zhu was in class again, he didn't mention a word about our situation, and started to explain the second Keats poem, "Ode to a Nightingale".He said that after reading Shelley's (Song of the Skylark) and then reading this "Ode to a Nightingale", people can see two aspects of the romantic period. The more you read in the future, the less you dare to give Romanticism a simple "romantic". name.When Keats was eight years old, his father fell off his horse and died, and when he was fourteen, his mother died of lung disease. At the age of twenty-four, beside his seriously ill younger brother, facing the fading life, sad and helpless, he tried to escape life through art Suffering, so I conceived this poem.Listening to the song of the nightingale in the gentle night is like drinking poison and intoxicating, like tasting fine wine and being intoxicated, but the nightingale must not know the sufferings of the world: "Here, Where men sit and hear each other groan" (Here, where we sit and lament the world ).The poet sat in the flower and fruit bushes, "listening in the dark and rich fragrance, in the singing of the nightingale pouring out the joy of the soul, facing the death of abundance, turning into grass mud."

It is not easy to read and recite this "Ode to a Nightingale". Keats's thoughts are between life and death, with long lines and deep and rich images.Under the coffin school, reading Shelley's golden tongue song) is as light as a nursery rhyme.After this poem, I read three short poems by Keats, "The Fear of Poems Are Not Ended, but Death Has Come" and another one, "Why You Laugh) and "Stars, May I Be Like You" In the middle of the month, I experienced another state of life. I felt a confidant who echoed Keats's poems.