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Burn it! Burn it!
The dream of burning the world,
The blood of the boiling world-
Save their souls,
Destroyed their prison.
This poem was written in 1923. The poet will publish his first book of poems. Looking back on his ideal exploration and poetic achievements in recent years, he wrote this famous poem "Red Candle" as the preface to the collection of poems of the same name.
The beginning of the poem highlights the image of a red candle, red, like a naked heart. Wen Yiduo wants to ask poets, can your hearts be so sincere and enthusiastic? Compared with this red candle, can you have the courage to spit out your sincerity? A vivid word "spit" shows the poet's persistence and sincerity in a glance.
The poet then asked Red Candle where its body came from and where its soul came from. Why do such bodies and such souls burn and destroy their bodies in the fire? Poets are confused, just like in life, they can't find the direction and think through many problems. Contradiction! Conflict! The poet strengthened his belief in the conflict that once existed. Because, the poet firmly said: "There is nothing wrong! There is nothing wrong. " The poet has found the direction of life and is ready to go to the ideal bright road, even if it is burned to ashes.
Since the fourth season, poetry has been praising the red candle, writing the responsibility of the red candle and the hardships and disappointments of life. The red candle will burn, it will break the fantasy of the world, burn the cruel prison, and save the living but not free soul with its own burning. The burning of the red candle is blocked by the wind and will burn with tears. Those tears, red candle's heart is anxious, because it can't realize the ideal as quickly as possible, and tears. Poets should praise the red candle, dedication and hard-won light. In this eulogy, the poet and the red candle are communicating. The poet found the direction of life in the red candle: hard work, exploration, firm efforts for his own ideals, regardless of the results. The poet said, "Mo Wen harvests, but requires cultivation."
This poem is full of romanticism and aestheticism. Poetry emphasizes fantasy and subjective emotion in expression, and uses a large number of lyric exclamations to strongly express the feelings in the heart with beautiful language. In the form of poetry, the poet pays great attention to the formal beauty and rhythm of poetry, so as to be consistent with the emotions to be expressed in the poem. For example, the use of repeated sentences, to some extent, adopts the rhyming form of China's traditional poetry, and each verse is relatively neat. The characteristics of China's new poems advocated by this poet are rhythm and musicality. It can be said that Wen Yiduo combined ancient and modern, cultural, Chinese and foreign poetic forms, opened up the poetic style of China generation with strong emotional expression and pursuit spirit, and inspired generations of China poets to cultivate and explore.
Song of the Seven Sons-Macau
You know Marko is not my real name,
I've been away from you for too long, mom.
But what they took was my body,
You still have my soul,
Soul, the biological mother who dreamed for 300 years!
Please name my baby Macau.
What is the song of the seven sons?
1In March, 925, Wen Yiduo, a famous poet living in new york, USA, was deeply impressed by current events. He described Macao, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province, Ahava, Guangzhou Bay, Kowloon and Luda, which were plundered by imperialism, as seven orphans separated from their mothers, and wrote seven pieces of land that cherished the motherland, among which Macao was the first of the "seven sons".
At the beginning of Song of Seven Sons, Mr. Wen Yiduo expressed his heart: the mother of seven sons is restless. Seven sons feel sorry for themselves, hoping to return to their mother's heart. The poet wrote "Kai Feng" to praise it. Since the Treaty of Nebuchadnezzar Chu, China has lost its land, lost the support of the motherland and been abused by other ethnic groups. It's more sad than the Seven sons of Kaifeng, so we chose seven places that have the closest relationship with China, and wrote a chapter for each place to express their loneliness and death, remember the grief of the motherland as soon as possible, and inspire the struggle of the people of China. The country has been broken for a long time, and the people are indifferent. Can't they see the French alsace-lorraine? "If you are sincere, the stone can be opened." In fact, the return of China's "seven sons" is in jeopardy!
Today, among the "seven sons", only Taiwan Province Province has not returned to the motherland. At that time, Mr Wen Yiduo wrote in Song of Seven Sons-Taiwan Province Province: We are a string of pearls in the East China Sea, Ryukyu is my group brother, and I am Taiwan Province Province. I still have the heroic spirit of Zheng in my chest, and my loyal red blood has touched my family. Mom, the cool summer is killing me; Give me an order and I can attack this city, mother! I want to come back, mom!
stagnant water
Dead Water is one of Wen Yiduo's most famous poems. It is also an important representative of the change of poetic style in the "stagnant water" period.
This poem was followed by a period of writing:1April 925. According to modern research, the actual writing time should be1April 926, that is, after the poet returned to China. Rao Mengkan, an old poet, recalled: "The poem" Dead Water "was written with emotion when you happened to see a stinking ditch at the southern end of Erlong Pit in Xidan ..." ("Two Poems", originally published in Poetry Journal No.8, 1979), that is to say, "Dead Water" is the smelly water in this ditch, which is full of it. We can also say for sure that "stagnant water" has cultural and social significance, and according to the usual saying, it is also "the motherland".
Then, in the patriotic poet Wen Yiduo, how is the sacred and beautiful image of the "motherland" associated with this smelly stagnant water? This must start with the actual evolution of the poet's patriotism and nationalism.
It must be pointed out that the so-called "patriotic poet" is not a term that can be applied to any time and any poet. The patriotic characteristics of the poet (including his nationalist consciousness) have their specific background conditions, such as when the country perished and the national crisis broke out, such as when he left his hometown and drifted overseas. As an outstanding "patriotic poet", Wen Yiduo was still studying in the United States. In the smoke of modern industrial civilization, people are buzzing. Under the strong pressure of western culture, the poet is infinitely attached to his "quiet" and "harmonious" hometown. In his mind, there are blooming reeds and moonlight, "a superb history", "elegant customs", "topaz on a golden background is white, spring is green, and autumn mountains are purple. Obviously, in this special environment and state of mind, Wen Yiduo's beloved "motherland" is an idealized motherland and a pure motherland. Only such an ideal bright and pure personality can make him "emerge from the mud without being stained" and maintain the "noble and pure" of the East.
However, his dream will be shattered sooner or later, especially because he respects reality and has a lot of pretentious knowledge. As soon as he set foot on his long-cherished motherland, he was completely disappointed. In a feudal, backward, conservative and ignorant society, all peace and harmony are wishful thinking, the economy is backward, the government is corrupt, warlords are fighting, and the people are ignorant and weak. This is a living reality. As a result, all the "great disappointments beyond great expectations" gathered together and finally overlapped with this ditch "stagnant water" in Xidan, Beijing by an accidental opportunity. Perhaps it is the decay and stagnation of "stagnant water" that reminds China's poets of their lack of progress? Perhaps it is the foul smell of "stagnant water" that once again shattered his colorful dream of falling into England, thus stimulating him to adjust his "homesickness" painfully!
The title of the poem is "Dead Water", but it does not describe the objective image of the "dead water" itself, but in the face of a series of imagination and a series of angry curses caused by the "dead water", Wen Yiduo still seems to think that the dead water in this ditch is not dirty enough and ugly enough. He vowed to add ugliness to ugliness and chaos to make stagnant water greasy, bright red, fresh, fermented and moldy! Wen Yiduo said: "Only a few friends who have been with me for a long time (like dreamers) know that I have a fire, and they feel my fire in stagnant water." This kind of anger is the expression of his anger.
The whole poem is divided into five sections. The first four sections are all about how the poet "fiddled" with this stagnant water. His first action was to "make trouble": throw in scrap iron and throw in leftovers. Soon, these actions had an effect. In the immersion of "stagnant water", copper was oxidized to green and iron rusted. Oily leftovers float on the water and become colorful because of mildew and bacteria. As time goes on, these oxidized metals and moldy meals are fermented again, so "stagnant water" becomes a ditch with green light. It's "full of pearl-like foam", with mosquitoes and flies flying around and smog. At this time, "stagnant water" is dazzling and radiant, and the chirping of several frogs adds a little excitement to the silent world.
The traditional interpretation of poetry generally tends to think that these seemingly glamorous but ugly images are symbols of "reactionary rulers", and old China was like this. In my opinion, this is obviously not enough consideration for the "imagination" characteristics of Wen Yiduo's creation. These images are not the poet's "realism" to the real society, but the "action" to be completed by the poet himself. It was not the reactionary warlords who turned "stagnant water" into "green wine" in this ditch, but Wen Yiduo made a wish to turn it into "green wine"!
So, is the poet a bit "cruel"? Actually, it is not. As the saying goes, "The deeper you love, the more you hate". The poet values and cares so much, and if this place can't stand the stimulation of stagnant water, it's really because he wants stagnant water not to die! How much he hopes that his once haunted motherland is as beautiful as he imagined, and when everything in the real world is so unexpected that he is pessimistic and desperate, can he not be psychologically unbalanced because of sudden loss? Can you curse and moan without emotion? If we can understand the strong expectations of intellectuals in modern China for the motherland and the profound contradiction between this expectation and real life, then it is not difficult to accept this "curse mentality" prevailing in the modern cultural history of China. Curse is not a traitor or an enemy of China. They are really a group of hot-blooded men! On the contrary, indifference and unprincipled praise are the most terrible and worthy of vigilance! Lu Xun said that if foreigners who come to China curse him, China sincerely welcomes him. In order to maintain Wen Yiduo's "patriotic" image, some comrades called "ugliness" a revolutionary force and said that Wen Yiduo was implicitly calling for revolution. I think this is blunt and completely unnecessary. As a "patriotic" poet, Wen Yiduo doesn't need future generations to defend him at all! As for the special meaning of emotional poetry, I think it is not difficult for people to accept it.
In addition, the poem "Dead Water" is also a model for Wen Yiduo to pursue the "three beauties" of poetry. I don't need to say more about the color sense of painting. This poem has a strong sense of rhythm (beautiful music), and the number of sound groups in each line is equal. They are all composed of four sound groups, one of which is three syllables and the other three are two syllables. Let's look at the first paragraph:
This is a ditch/despair/stagnant water.
Breeze/I can't afford it/I can't afford it/I can't afford it.
Why not throw more copper/scrap iron,
Cool/spill your/leftovers/leftovers.
Free verse with uneven length and irregular changes will not have this special effect of harmony.
The stagnant water has five sections, each with four sentences and nine words, which forms the so-called "architectural beauty" in the poem.