"I don't want to be a roller coaster" is from "To the Oak Tree" by Shu Ting.

The poet uses the oak tree as an object to express the passion, sincerity and steadfastness of love. Through the artistic technique of anthropomorphization, the inner monologue of the kapok tree is used to sing passionately and honestly about her own personality ideals and the concept of love that requires her to stand shoulder-to-shoulder and to be independent of and affectionate towards each other.

In terms of artistic expression, the poem adopts the inner monologue of lyricism, which facilitates frank and open expression of the poet's spiritual world, and at the same time, the overall symbolism of the construction of the imagery, so that philosophical ideas can be born in the image of the intimate and palpable, poetic, and thus the first rich in rational temperament.

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Shu Ting, alias Gong Peiyu, a native of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, published her debut poem "O Motherland, My Dear Motherland" in 1979, which attracted attention and was awarded the National Outstanding New Poem Award for Young and Middle-aged Poets in the period of 1970-1980. she was transferred to the Literature Federation of Fujian Province to engage in professional creative work in 1980. He is the author of the collections of poems "Two-masted Ship", "Singing Iris" and "The Beginning Bird", and the collection of prose "Smoke of the Heart", etc. He is also the author of a book of poems and a book of essays.

Shu Ting rose to prominence in the late 1970s, when she and her contemporaries Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, and Liang Xiaobin set off a wave of "hazy poetry" with a style of poetry that differed greatly from that of their predecessors.

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