Origin of the work: The Melody of Spring;

Literary genre: prose poem;

Author: Gorky.

The original text is as follows:

On the vast sea, the gale rolls and gathers the dark clouds. Between the dark clouds and the sea the petrels, like black lightning, were flying high and proud.

At one time its wings touched the waves, at another time it arrowed straight toward the dark clouds, and it cried out,--and in the brave cry of the bird the dark clouds heard joy.

In this cry -- full of longing for the storm! In this cry the dark clouds heard the strength of anger, the fire of passion, and the confidence of victory.

The seagulls moaned before the storm,--groaned, as they scuttled across the sea, trying to hide their fear of the storm, in the depths of the sea.

The sea-ducks groaned, too, - they, the sea-ducks, could not enjoy the joys of life's battles: the rumble of thunder frightened them.

The stupid penguins, timidly hiding their fat bodies under the cliffs,...... only the proud petrels, bravely, freely, fly over the foaming sea!

The clouds grew darker and lower, and pressed straight down toward the sea, while the waves sang and rushed high into the air to meet the thunder.

The thunder boomed. The waves called in angry spray, and fought with the gale. And behold, the gale clutched up layers of huge waves, and flung them viciously against the cliffs, and dashed these great chunks of emerald into dust and mist and splinters.

The petrels shrieked and soared, like black lightning, arrowing through the dark clouds, their wings skimming the foam of the waves.

Behold, it flew, like a spirit,--a high, black spirit of the storm,--and it laughed, and it hooted ...... It laughed at those dark clouds, and it hooted for joy!

The sensitive spirit,--which had long heard the sleepiness in the thunder's fury,--was convinced that the clouds could not hide the sun,--yes, they could not!

The wind roared ...... and the thunder boomed ......

A heap of dark clouds, like green flames, burned on the bottomless sea. The sea seizes the arrowy lights of lightning and quenches them in its own abyss. The shadows of these flashes of lightning, living like a fiery serpent, slithered through the sea and disappeared in a flash.

--The storm! The storm is coming!

It is the brave petrel, soaring high above the roaring sea, among the lightning; it is the victorious prophet shouting:

--Let the storm come harder!

Expanded Information:

The Background of the Song of the Petrels:

"The Petrels" is the last chapter of "The Melody of Spring", a symbolic short story written in March 1901 by Gorky. As the industrial crisis that broke out in Europe in the 19th century soon spread to Russia, in the crisis years from 1900 to 1903, more than 3,000 large and small enterprises closed down in Russia, and more than 100,000 workers were fired;

Combined with the increasing darkness of the Tsarist rule, which was intolerable to the masses of the people, the revolt was growing, and revolutionary struggles flourished. The Russian workers' movement began to shift from economic strikes to political strikes, to demonstrations, to political demands for democracy and freedom, and to political slogans such as "Down with the Tzar's Dictatorship", shaking the foundations of the Tzar's rule.

It was the Russian workers' movement that was the most powerful in the history of the country.

It is in the contrast between the two attitudes to the storm, a brave, selfless, optimistic, determined, outstanding image of the sea oats came out. Wind", "thunder", "clouds" and "electricity" are also written to contrast the "sea oats". "The sturdy, courageous fighting posture and optimistic and fearless revolutionary sentiment. Gorky is the use of the image of the contrast, baking, suppressing evil and promoting the good, scourge the evil and ugly, praise the beauty and goodness, only to shape the "Haiyan" this is full of force and beauty, a profound reflection of the characteristics of the times of the artistic image.

On March 12, he returned to Nizhny Novgorod. After personally feeling the majestic momentum of the workers' and students' movements, and witnessing the brutal crimes of the Tsarist government in suppressing the student movement, Gorky, who came from the bottom of society and understood the suffering of the people at the bottom of the society, in order to enthusiastically glorify the pioneers of the proletarian revolution, based on the situation of the struggle at that time and the feeling of participating in the demonstration, he wrote a symbolic short story called "Fantasia". "The Melody of Spring". Its concluding part is the famous prose poem "Haiyan".