Wild Grass

Grass

Grass refers to various families of plants. The three major families of grasslike plants are true grasses (Poaceae), sedges (Cyperaceae), and rushes (Juncaceae). Lawns and pasturelands are typically composed of true grasses, five of which cover 46% of the world's arable land: rice, wheat, maize, barley, and sugar cane.

Wild Grass

Wild Grass is a 2009 French comedy-drama film directed by Alain Resnais. The film competed in the main competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

Wild Grass (poetry collection)

Wild Grass is a collection of prose poetry by Lu Xun, published in July 1927. It comprises twenty-four pieces, written between 1924 and 1926. Among the best-known are "Autumn Night", "The Kite", "Snow", "The Passer-by", and "The Epitaph". All of them first appeared in serial form in the magazine Yusi . The collection was composed during Lu Xun's courtship of Xu Guangping, against the backdrop of the Beijing Women's Normal University Incident and the March 18 Massacre; these events left a deep imprint on its content. Wild Grass levels a critique at the darkness of contemporary Chinese reality, while also expressing the author's personal philosophical concerns and recording his emotional life. The pieces fall broadly into two thematic groups: one set comprises the author's self‑analysis of his own darker psychological states—for instance, "The Shadow's Farewell", "The Passer-by", and "The Epitaph"; the other depicts Lu Xun's struggle against conservative forces, as in "Autumn Night", "Revenge", and "In the Faint Light of Bloodstains", In terms of genre, the collection belongs to the category of prose poetry: it is concise, poetic, and occasionally rhymed. The prevailing mood is gloom and darkness, reflecting the poet's depression, grief, and disappointment with the masses. Technically, Wild Grass draws on modernist artistic methods such as symbolism, metaphor, and allegory, creating a rich tapestry of imagery and sometimes touching on the absurdity of surrealism. The work was inspired by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's My Prose Poems (或る散文詩), as well as by the writings of Kuriyagawa Hakuson, Natsume Sōseki, Mikhail Artsybashev, Charles Baudelaire, and Ivan Turgenev. It is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Lu Xun's individual creative output and is generally acknowledged as one of the great works of modern Chinese literature.

wild

Adjective

1. Untamed; not domesticated.
2. Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.

Adverb

1. Inaccurately; not on target.
2. Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.

grass

Noun

1. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Verb

1. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
2. To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.