The poem repeatedly uses the rhetorical device of simile to graphically illustrate the importance of ideals to life and society, and calls on people to set up ambitious ideals and persistently strive for them.

Second, the article line

The whole poem ****12 stanzas, divided into three parts.

The first part (stanza 1) summarizes the significance (directional significance) of the ideal. --Ideal is: stone, fire, lamp, road, four "top true" metaphor, image shows that ideal is the direction of progress.

The second part (vv. 2-11) is divided into the meaning of the ideal. There are three levels:

Level 1 (sections 2-3): the historical significance of ideals - ideals have epochs and continuity; ideals from one generation to the next promote the development of history.

Level 2 (section 4-7): the personality significance of ideals - the realization of ideals is arduous and long-term; ideals give people optimism, fighting spirit, and youthful strength; but ideals should not be the field of fame and fortune ("golden dreams" and "honors"). "and "honor", etc.),

Level 3 (sections 8-11): the ideal of the... Meaning of life. --Ideals bring the unfortunate back to life and make ordinary people "capitalized people"; ideals can restore a person's conscience; ideals, if "tarnished", If ideals are "tarnished" or "pickpocketed", they should be recovered and alerted, and ideals should be regarded as life: if one abandons ("loses") one's ideals, it will do great harm. Positive and negative comparisons, highlighting the importance of ideals to life,

Part III (Section 12) summarizes: the practical significance of ideals-inspire people to set up ideals and strive for them. --Today's ideal "flower" is tomorrow's "sweet fruit"; today's ideal "bud" is tomorrow's "thick shade"; today's ideal "bud" is tomorrow's "sweet fruit"; today's ideal "bud" is tomorrow's "thick shade". Today's ideal "flower" is tomorrow's "sweet fruit"; today's ideal "bud" is tomorrow's "thick shade". Spring is bright, the sky is clear, the realization of the ideal, a great deal of work.

Third, writing method

The poem praises the significance of ideals from multiple angles and levels. From the perspective of the significance of the ideal direction, historical significance, personality significance and life significance, the poem firstly unfolds and praises the rich significance of the ideal layer by layer after the general division (for specific instructions, see the previous "thought structure")

Language image, with a series of specific metaphors, revealing the rich significance of the ideal: such as in the first stanza, with the ideal like a lamp, illuminating the night walk. like a lamp, illuminating the road at night; human ideals are like a chain of pearls, the image vividly praises the ideals of mankind from generation to -generation, promoting the development of history. Section 12 compares the ideal to the flower of peach and plum. Than the buds of elm and poplar, specific image illustrates the establishment of the ideal, unremitting struggle, will achieve fruitful results. Another example is section 10, the "Gang of Four" than the "demons", the ideal is "tainted" by them, that is, they spoil, so that you can not recognize the true and false, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, and thus make the ** ** ** ** ** ** ideal distorted. The ideals of ****analism have been distorted. Subsequently, some people's belief in ****productivism is no longer firm and persistent, so that it is shaken and lost, so that the ideal is like being "pickpocketed". The language is also very specific and graphic.