Feng Zhi is the author of "Yesterday's Song", "Journey to the North and Others", "Fourteen Elements" and so on. The Fourteen Sonnets is a collection of representative poems and the first collection of sonnets in China. Written during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it contains 27 new fourteen-line poems written by him in 1941.
"You are a bush of white grass / have not lived up to a name" is selected from Feng Zhi's "Fourteen Elements - Rat Grass", which refers to sage grass.
"Rat Grass" explores the true meaning of life by describing the ordinary and small survival process of Rat Yeast Grass. Sage grass is silent and self-sufficient in the ordinary state of life, silently negates the "all descriptions, all the hustle and bustle" that occurs in the world for the pursuit of beauty, and understands a serious life thinking from the praise of its noble qualities: the pursuit of a noble personality; the praise of a plain, serious, and persistent attitude towards life.
A brief analysis of the theme of Feng Zhi's poem "Rat Qucao":
By describing the ordinary and small survival process of rat grass, we explore the true meaning of life.
Celebrate the ordinary and noble personality and the peaceful, serious and persistent attitude towards life.
Express the negation of "all the descriptions, all the noise" that occurs in the world for the pursuit of fame and profit.
"Du Fu" is one of Feng Zhi's "Fourteen Elements", in which Feng Zhi enlightens Du Shi everywhere, portraying the image of Du Fu who endured hunger in the chaos of AnShi and still had the image of a "poetic saint" who still had a heart for the people in his wanderings, and deplored the image of a "poetic saint" with a responsible spirit who was broken in the country and mountains and sang tragic and mournful songs with all his heart and blood. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China was in a situation similar to the "Anshi Rebellion". In the poem "Du Fu", Feng Zhi, through the shaping of Du Fu's image, calls on the intellectuals to take responsibility for the dangers of the nation and the times.