A silent and patient spider
A silent and patient spider,
I noticed it standing alone on a small promontory,< /p>
Notice how it surveys the vast emptiness around it,
It shoots threads, threads, threads, from its own smallness,
continuously blooming threads from the yarn , tirelessly speeding up the pace.
And you, my soul, where are you standing?
Surrounded and isolated in the ocean of infinite space,
unceasingly Meditate, explore, project, and seek places where you can connect,
until the bridge you need is built, until the anchor of your resilience is set,
until the hairspring you throw is caught Somewhere, my soul!
Poetry is life. Welcome to the "Poetry Reading in Caotang" jointly launched by Cover News, Chengdu Radio and Television Station Tingtang FM and "Caotang" poetry magazine. I am a poet reading poet. What we just listened to is Whitman's poem "A Silent and Patient Spider", the translation is Fei Bai. Today we will appreciate this poem together.
Let’s get to know the poet. The famous American poet Whitman created the free form of poetry, and his representative work is the collection of poems "Leaves of Grass". His poetry profoundly influenced twentieth-century American poetry in terms of language and subject matter.
Poet Zhou Ziwei has this interpretation of the song "A Silent and Patient Spider":
In "A Silent and Patient Spider", Whitman begins with The image of spiders is associated with the state of the soul, and the specific behavior of spiders spinning silk leads to philosophical thinking about the search for the soul.
The beginning of the poem starts directly from the protagonist of the poem, "Spider". It is not only the starting point of the whole poem, but also the center of the subsequent divergence and extension. This straightforward way of entering the title is a characteristic of Whitman's poetry. a distinctive sign. "Isolated" is placed in the second sentence as a description of a state. It is actually more like a razor, quickly removing unnecessary associations from the poem, as if there is only this "spider" that the poet noticed in the whole world. ", and the next sentence "the vast emptiness around" further highlights this lonely and even somewhat helpless state through a vast blank. The word "silk" is repeated three times in the third sentence, which not only causes the delay of physical time, but also increases the psychological tension of the entire poem.
Through the description and foreshadowing of the first five sentences, when the sixth sentence finally exhales "My heart