1. Appreciation
"Paper Boat" is a representative song in "New Moon Collection".
This poem is full of childish imagination, and delicately depicts the child's innocent, lovely and imaginative character and psychology. In order to highlight imaginary things and various moving moods and whimsical thoughts full of children's characteristics, the poet pays attention to the use of restrictive and modifying words.
For example, the paper boat is a paper boat with "my name and the name of the village where I live written in big black letters"; the flowers are "blooming at dawn"; the basket is "full of dreams", and at night , my paper boat floats forward "slowly" under the midnight stars.
These words or phrases not only make my whimsical ideas clearly highlighted, but they are also vivid and concrete, making them more childlike.
2. Original text
"Paper Boats" Rabindranath Tagore
Every day I place the paper boats one by one in the fast-flowing stream.
I wrote my name and the name of the village where I lived on the paper boat in big black letters.
I hope people who live in other places will get this paper boat and know who I am.
I load my little boat with the shiuliflowers that grow in the garden, hoping that these flowers that bloom at dawn will be carried safely to the shore during the night.
I launched my paper boat into the water and looked up into the sky,
and saw the little clouds setting out their white sails bulging with the wind.
I wonder what playmate of mine in the sky has lowered these boats to race with my boats!
When night comes, I bury my face in my arms,
I dream of my ship floating slowly forward under the midnight stars.
The Sleeping Fairy sat in the boat with a basket full of dreams.
Extended information:
Theme of the work
Tagore believed that love created the world, and the essence of the world is love; and maternal love and child love are the most important human beings. The most sincere and simple emotion; this kind of emotion is permeated in everyone's daily life. Excessive familiarity often makes it unnoticed and unnoticed, or even numb and almost forgotten. The "defamiliarization" theory always observes problems from a new perspective and constantly updates the way of perceiving the literary world. In essence, the theory of defamiliarization is to break the obscurity and deception of daily experience, and to break the mechanical way of thinking. sex and habit.
In "New Moon Collection", the poet sometimes transforms into an innocent and lovely child, sometimes into a gentle and kind mother. Through the children's novel and lively imagination and the mother's pure and loving words, the poet turns this love into The beautiful concrete image produces a soul-stirring charm.
In the collection of poems, the poet’s love for God is reflected in his love for the most sublime divinity of nature and man. In Tagore's mind, God, truth and infinity are synonymous. Humans and nature are limited. Finiteness and infinity must be unified and integrated, so that the world will be full of love, showing joy and harmony. That is to say, in a harmonious and unified world, the finite appears infinite, and the infinite exists within the finite.
The God in Tagore's heart is not as nihilistic as the God in the West, so high and difficult to achieve. It exists in nature and people, and is a tangible and tangible "infinity". "The spring water flowing from the infinite to the finite is "truth" and "goodness". In other words, the finite shows the existence of the infinite God with truth, goodness, and beauty.
If we talk about the children sung by Tagore The love for mother is like a clear stream, which produces the beauty of lively and crystal clear beauty under the refraction of sunlight; then, the love of children for nature described by Tagore is like the bamboo flute under the moonlight night. The beauty is so light and pure. Tagore believes that the most fundamental principle of the universe is harmony and coordination. In his view, the relationship between man and nature is like a child. Just like the relationship with mother, only by falling into the embrace of nature can people find "the path to the shore of the endless sea of ??happiness."
A child's pure love for nature represents human beings' "investment." The wish of "the embrace of nature". "New Moon Collection" uses fiery passion and joyful writing style to depict bright and beautiful, warm and elegant pictures - a poetic world where children and nature are integrated. It It takes us back to the time when we sat in the dirt and used dead branches and stems as beds, and makes us relive in our hearts the time when we used shells as tableware, fallen leaves as boats, and dewdrops on the green grass as beads on the beach. Children's Dream.
Artistic Features
Tagore adopts three narrative perspectives in "New Moon Collection": child, mother, poet.
Each. Each poem is a pure perspective, either a mother, a child, or the poet's own omniscient perspective; the single identity of the protagonist of the poem from a pure perspective excludes the individual identity role of a social person. Complexity and diversity lead to the simple novelty of poetic language in plot narration and emotional expression, and do not include the utilitarian considerations of secular society and the stereotyped thinking of people's cognitive things after multiple socialization; it is more reflective of It is the poet's emotional feeling rather than people's usual rational cognition.
20 of the 37 poems in "New Moon Collection" are written in the tone of children, and 12 are purely children's perspectives. The first part appears in the form of the mother's loving words, which also express the child's actions and psychology.
The other five poems were written as poets who transcended the mother and the child, either looking down at the family love between the mother and the child in the world, or as if the grown-up child was reminiscing. Beautiful childhood; the latter two can be regarded as the alienation of children's perspective. This unique aesthetic perspective creates the fantasy and strange atmosphere of the poetry collection. ?
Tagore's "viewing things with myself" and the attitude of observing things with love gave the natural landscape in the collection of poems "New Moon Collection" a strong subjective color by the poet.
In the poem, people cannot see the fierce sun and dry land of Bangladesh, but only the green trees, white reeds, swimming ducks and other poetic and beautiful landscapes. Du Fu once said, "I feel tears when I feel the flowers, and I am frightened when I hate the other birds" to illustrate that when people observe nature with emotions, nature will take shape according to their heart.
The poet sketched a quiet and leisurely gongbi painting with delicate brushstrokes, expressing the poet's infinite yearning for a harmonious life.
Even a night full of sin will be full of poetry in the poet's writing. In the woods shrouded in darkness, "fireflies flicker their light", "pigeons coo where they live, and fairies' anklets jingle in the starry night" ("Stealing Sleep") ”). The poet's heart is filled with love for all things, so in the dark night, his eyes are shining with fireflies and the sky is full of stars; his ears are catching the low singing of peace doves and the sweet jingle of fairy anklets.
There is no word about love in the poem, but this wonderful landscape is filled with the poet's love for nature.
In terms of artistic expression, "Crescent Moon Collection" has a light and graceful artistic conception, the language is meaningful and simple, the rhythm is clear and musical, and its overall form is a novel and lively prose style. Gives people a fresh and pleasant feeling. In addition, the 37 short poems in the collection are all very delicately conceived. Almost all of them contain philosophy, and fully express childlike innocence, maternal love, and natural beauty. However, the three do not exist in isolation, but combine reason with emotion and place emotion with scenery: reason, emotion, and scenery achieve a close and harmonious unity.
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia: New Moon Collection - Appreciation of Works