"I don't want to be the camphora" comes from Shu Ting's To the Oak Tree.

The poet expressed the passion, sincerity and faithfulness of love with the oak tree as the object. Through the artistic technique of quasi-materialization, with the inner monologue of kapok tree, he sang his own personality ideal and his love view that requires standing shoulder to shoulder, being independent and affectionate.

In artistic expression, poetry adopts the lyrical way of inner monologue, which is convenient to express the poet's inner world frankly and cheerfully. At the same time, it constructs images by means of overall symbol, which makes philosophical ideas germinate and poeticize in a kind and sensible image, so this richest man is rational.

Extended information:

Shu Ting, alias Gong Peiyu, is from Quanzhou, Fujian. In 1979, he published his first poem "Motherland, My Dear Motherland", which attracted attention and won the National Young and Middle-aged Poets' Outstanding New Poetry Award from 197 to 198. In 198, he was transferred to Fujian Federation of Literary and Art Circles to engage in professional creation. He is the author of a collection of poems, Double Mast Boat, Singing Iris, Archaeopteryx, and a collection of essays, Heart Smoke, etc.

Shu Ting rose in China's poetry circles in the late 197s. She and her contemporaries, such as Beidao, Gu Cheng and Liang Xiaobin, set off a wave of "misty poetry" in China's poetry circles with their different poetic styles.

Reference: To Oak-Baidu Encyclopedia