The Community in Rewi Alley's Beijing-themed Poems
The New Zealander Rewi Alley was a visionary writer,translator,and poet.He lived and worked in China for 60 years,and wrote nine poems about Beijing.These poems describe the nat-ural landscape,social reality,historical evolution and contemporary role of Beijing from three dimen-sions,namely,time,space and imagery.The consistent theme in these poems is a strong sense of community.The sense of community in these poems is mainly manifested in three aspects:first,the recognition of and optimistic attitude towards the community of common destiny as revealed in"Pe-king","Summer Thoughts","Peking Winter Scene"and"A May Morning in Peking";second,the i-dea of opposing war and striving for peace as reflected in"An Afternoon of Peking Spring"and"Win-ter Dusk at the Summer Palace";third,the longing for the world proletarian community as shown in"Red Leaves at Hsiang Shan","Spring Festival Eve,Peking,1977"and"Peking,July 7,1977".These poems are products of a specific historical period,highlighting words such as"people","desti-ny","peace"and"world",expressing the strong confidence of the Chinese people in building social-ism,their friendship with and responsibility for the world's proletarians.To some extent,these po-ems are epic poems about Beijing,which help us better understand the historical logic of modern and contemporary Chinese revolution and construction,and understand China's position,development o-rientation,and vision in the contemporary world.
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