Collected Item: “鳥 Bird”
Title (required)
鳥 Bird
Creator
H. Z. Chen
Description (required)
"One of the first poems in modern vernacular Chinese, written by Chen Hengzhe, the first woman professor in China, and published on 新青年 (Xin Qing Nian/ The New Youth Magazine).
Translation of the last verse:
[If I ever escape the cage,
I care not those directions lost,
Nor the sky storm-tossed,
I will fly to a world endlessly vast!
Fly till my last drop of strengthen drained, the last mountain conquered, and the last river exhausted,
Then to the raging wind I go forth,
Take my feathers, muscles and bones,
Every trace blown into the air of the free!]"
Translation of the last verse:
[If I ever escape the cage,
I care not those directions lost,
Nor the sky storm-tossed,
I will fly to a world endlessly vast!
Fly till my last drop of strengthen drained, the last mountain conquered, and the last river exhausted,
Then to the raging wind I go forth,
Take my feathers, muscles and bones,
Every trace blown into the air of the free!]"
Date (YYYY, YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD)
1918-05
Location
Cantong, China
Type
Poetry
Rights information
The 新青年(Xin Qing Nian/ New Youth) magazine is archived on the Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database and accessed only through Columbia library research account.
Source url
https://www.cnbksy.com/literature/browseEntity/89e3224a2bb8326f3c4c1637915541bc?bc=&source=FULL_BROWSER