Although this poem is only 20 lines short, it outlines a true, desolate and scarred image of the northern land, which is heartbreaking. War and the weakness of the country, like deep and shallow cracks in the dry land in the north, spread all over the earth and are difficult to heal. The whole poem is very concise, the language is washed and practiced, and there is no superfluous word. The artistic conception and words are very unified, and the whole poem creates a desolate and sad atmosphere. Such as "countless dry river bottoms", "sharp sounds that make the dark sky twitch", "cold", "sadness", "poverty" and "gray loess layer" and so on. Every accurate and heavy word contains a true feeling of historical suffering.
The simpler the description, the easier it is for people to remember, just like the simple strokes on white rice paper in Chinese painting, which seem ordinary but have endless meanings. This poem goes like this. "Handcart" is the central image of this poem, and it is also the most unique image. In the choice of this "trolley" image, the author is very careful. China is a big agricultural country. In the agricultural production at that time, wheelbarrows were indispensable, so this image also represented the broad masses of farmers, that is, the broad masses of workers in China. The poem says "use a single wheel/make a sharp sound that makes the gloomy sky twitch", which is also the call sign of the broad masses of working people. Because of the war, the broad masses of people live in dire straits. They have no land to farm, so they have to push this empty car through this scarred land. What a helpless and tragic scene this is! In the second section, the author wrote "Depicting the deep rut/crossing the desert/from this road/to that road on the gray loess layer", that is, expressing the poverty and sorrow of the working people who moved around and avoided disasters in the war by writing the story of the unicycle.
Although the choice of images in the whole poem is simple, it is tangible and distinctive, which makes people think of corresponding scenes when reading it. It is by using the expressive technique of borrowing scenery to express emotion that the author expresses his strong inner sense of hardship in these scenes. In order to express the feelings of the whole poem more richly, the author also uses auditory description and visual description, which gives people a double shock. Render the pain around the "sharp sound" made by the people in the north when the tram is running, which gives people an auditory shock; Then closely follow the "rut" left by the tram during the driving process to render the scars in the hearts of the people in the north, which is visually shocking.
The trolley in the poem is personified and endowed with emotion and sadness, which is exactly what the author entrusts. But when I saw the cart in this poem, I thought of the "cart" that brought hope and encouragement. It was a symbol of the close cooperation between the military and the people in the Anti-Japanese War. People use trolleys to send food, clothes and medicine from the rear to the soldiers at the front to help transport the wounded. It is these "unicycles" that give the soldiers in front firm hope, and it is this stable rear that makes us win the final victory!
The pain under the rut is deep and shallow, but the hope under the rut can not be ignored. When we remember the pain, don't forget to help us take out the warmth of pain!