Starlight. Spring Water - World Youth Literature Classics Collection

Author: Bing Xin
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: "Starry Sky" and "Spring Water" are Bing Xin's poetry collections, which are her casual notes of "thoughts and memories recorded anytime, anywhere." Later, inspired by Tagore's Stray Birds, she felt that her short, spontaneous musings also contained poetic elements and decided to compile them into two collections. At the time, Bing Xin likely did not anticipate that the publication of these two subtle and profound, philosophy-rich small poetry collections would touch the long-silent hearts of so many young people, influencing the New Poetry movement since the May Fourth Movement to enter an era where small poems became popular. This book is part of the World Youth Literature Classics Collection, from which one can easily see Bing Xin's pure and beautiful prose and delicate writing style. It allows you to relive the dreams of childhood, lying on the grass under the night sky and counting stars together with her. Starry Sky is a poetry collection consisting of 164 short poems. Bing Xin, throughout her life, believed in the philosophy of "love," believing that "with love, everything is possible." In Starry Sky, she repeatedly sang the praises of love. Her favorite subject to celebrate was maternal love. Beyond cherishing her own parents, Bing Xin also treasured sibling bonds. She loved her three younger brothers. In a later essay titled To Young Readers. Letter 13, she compared her three brothers to three bright stars. Bing Xin celebrated maternal love, the love of humanity, and childhood innocence, while also celebrating nature, especially the ocean, which she had been familiar with since her childhood. Praises for nature, childhood innocence, and maternal love became the eternal themes of Bing Xin's lifelong creations. Spring Water is the sister volume to Starry Sky, consisting of 182 short poems. It was also first published in the Supplement to the Morning News, but Spring Water was released three months later than Starry Sky. In Spring Water, while Bing Xin continued to celebrate maternal love, family bonds, childhood innocence, and nature, she devoted more space to subtly expressing the anxieties and frustrations of herself and her peers, the young intellectual generation of her time. With a gentle yet slightly melancholic tone, she shared her inner feelings while also exploring the meaning of life and expressing her desire to understand the true nature of the world.