"You stand on the bridge and watch the scenery.
People watching the scenery are watching you upstairs;
The bright moon decorated your window,
You decorated other people's dreams. "
This little poem with only four lines can be regarded as one of Bian's representative works, and its title is Broken Chapter. This was originally four lines in one of his long poems, but because he was not satisfied, he deleted all the others and kept only these four lines, which I thought was really wonderful. This poem is fresh and simple, contains philosophy, and sharp thoughts are hidden between the lines, which is a typical obscurity. "You stand on the bridge and watch the scenery, and the people watching the scenery are watching you upstairs;" Did you see a shot in front of you: you were standing by the bridge, staring at the beautiful scenery in the distance, and the people watching the scenery upstairs also included you in the scenery outside the window. When you are intoxicated with the scenery, you don't know that you have become someone else's scenery. It is with such a concrete image that the author expresses an abstract philosophy. In fact, everyone has a similar position in life. Things are intrinsically related to me, me and him, and he and you. Everyone does not exist independently. We are influenced by others, and we also influence others, just as people who look at the scenery will become scenery. Who knows if the person watching the scenery upstairs will become another person watching the scenery? "The bright moon decorated your window, and you decorated other people's dreams." Two "ornaments" are used in the two sentences, highlighting the changes until "you". When you look at the bright moon by the window and fall asleep with a sweet smile, you won't know. Maybe a stranger dreamed of you in his dream, and you decorated his dream. This section can be regarded as independent from the previous section, but they express the same truth. Through the transformation and contrast of positions and two poetic pictures, the inextricable relationship between man and nature and between people is revealed.
Creation background
"Broken Chapter" was written in 1935 and 10, which is an exquisite philosophical poem. According to the author, these four lines were originally in a long poem, but only these four lines were used to his satisfaction, so they were taken out to form an independent chapter, from which the title came.
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Broken chapter was originally a passage in the author's long poem. It shows the poet's philosophy and wisdom from the instant feeling.
The last part of this poem depicts a picture of tourists looking at the scenery during the day. Although it is written about "seeing the scenery", the pen and ink do not splash on the description of the scenery, but inadvertently reveal the bridges, buildings, tourists, and the running water, cruise ships and shore willows that can be inferred from it ... It is like a faint ink painting, leaving the vague background to the readers to imagine, and the focus of the picture falls on the people watching the scenery on the bridge and upstairs, which is even more important. In the first section of the poem, the realistic brushwork is full of twists and turns, which conveys the deep affection of the people on the bridge for the hidden scenery and the infinite kindness of the people upstairs to the people on the bridge, and constitutes a dramatic scene of "falling flowers intentionally and running water ruthlessly". But affection is always annoyed by ruthlessness. Can people who are indifferent to the scenery on the bridge repay those who love them with the same deep friendship? Faced with this common scene in life, it often ends with helpless regret and endless melancholy memories. In the next poem, the poet made a wonderful answer with a unique romantic pen, full of fantasy and rippling with warm sentiment.
Time moved to the moonlit night. The people on the bridge and upstairs returned to the rest place with their own satisfaction and deficiency. But who would have thought that in this silence, people's emotional investment during the day was unconsciously rewarded.
"The bright moon decorated your window", isn't this the warm return of natural scenery to people who are indifferent to the scenery on the bridge during the day? From the window of "You" decorated with "Bright Moon", you can imagine that the bridge is showing a beautiful and charming moonlit scenery at the moment! Bridges, water, buildings, boats, willows ... Everything outside the window is dissolved in this elegant, gentle, misty and ethereal moonlight, which is so mysterious, so wonderful, so sweet and so comfortable compared with everything under the bright sun during the day. Natural scenery returns the amorous feelings of people on the bridge in its unique way. How can people on the bridge return the good intentions of people upstairs? The poem gives a perceptual answer to this question with the imagination of "you decorate other people's dreams", thus giving a pleasant vent to the hopeless unrequited love of the upstairs people in real life. Although there is no direct confession of love in the poem, this rosy dream shows how warm and clear the love without confession is, and it is even more exciting to reflect on the "appearance" of the day. Isn't it more exciting to think about how much amorous feelings are wrapped in that bland "eyes"?
There are only four ***34 words in the whole poem, but its philosophy of life is quite rich, which provides many possibilities for people to appreciate. The poet himself once said that "broken chapters" describe an instantaneous artistic conception. I like to think that people and things in the world are closely related, interdependent and interactive. People ('you') can see the scenery, or they may embellish it intentionally or unintentionally; People ('you') can see the bright moon decorating their windows, or they may become decorations in other people's dreams consciously or unconsciously. "The first two sentences are two pictures. The first one is "you" standing on the bridge enjoying the scenery. " "Landscape" is an empty frame structure here, which people can fill according to their own consciousness tendency; You are also a general term, which can refer to anyone with different cultural and psychological structures. So "you stand on the bridge and watch the scenery" is a changing picture with great randomness. It is this feature that makes it popular with different audiences. The second picture: The Landscape Man is upstairs watching You. "You" became the object of appreciation of "landscape watcher". When "you" are enjoying the scenery, "you" are being watched by others unconsciously. These two paintings form a three-dimensional space because of "seeing the scenery". The second section writes that when the "bright moon" decorates your window and "you" are pleasing to the eye, "you" may become an activist in others' dreams and bring pleasure to others. Although there are only four sentences, it describes the interdependence and interaction between people in the world. The difference and division of all things are relative and temporary, and the connection is internal and eternal. And the soul of this connection is people. People often think that they are different because of their age, status, class and region, and they live in an isolated world. In fact, people are always linked by something in common. You have me and I have you, but sometimes people don't realize this connection. When you talk about others, you are praised or belittled by others. Others may make your life better, and you can also give others the gospel. This poem is only the poet's momentary "artistic conception" and feelings, but its connotation is infinitely rich, implying the complexity of personnel relations.
The era of out-of-context creation is inevitably influenced by foreign poems, but Bian intentionally or unintentionally implanted the elements of classical poetry into her poems. That is its intertextuality. Broken chapter depicts an interconnected world through "looking" and "decoration" In the first sentence of the poem, "You are standing on the bridge watching the scenery/the people watching the scenery are watching you upstairs", Bian does not confine himself to his predecessors, but pushes the scenery away and looks at the world gazing at each other with his omniscient third eye. At the same time, the poet is also examining himself with the technique of "a beautiful girl leaves her soul". In this sense, Broken Chapter and Wang Guowei's ci are in the same strain. The first sentence and the second sentence of the poem: "The bright moon decorated your window/you decorated other people's dreams", which reflect each other and are seamless. In the long river of China literature, there has long been a story of Zhuangzi's dream butterfly. Zhuangzi and butterflies decorate each other, which is a complicated and seamless dream, reflecting a beautiful wish of human beings. Broken chapters also create a beautiful dream for people through "watching" and "decorating". After all, people are social animals. While pursuing a free life, they inevitably fall into the eyes and dreams of others.
"Broken Chapter" constructs a rich poetic scene, poetic interest and poetic thoughts through several groups of images, and through the extreme twists and turns of images, it builds a flying bridge between images. Under the coherence of its logical structure, the thin skeleton of the image immediately becomes rich and rich in people's field of vision, and continues to expand and link, eventually forming an infinitely rich, complete and substantial art world. There are four lines in the poem, and each line can be used as an independent situational image: "You look at the scenery", "People who look at the scenery look at you", "The bright moon decorated your window" and "You decorated other people's dreams". In the first section, the first sentence "you" is the subject of the situation and "scenery" is the object of the situation; In the second sentence, the "scenery" that used to be the object suddenly became a part of the subject, while the "you" that used to be the subject changed from the position at the beginning of the first sentence to the end of the second sentence and became the object. The second section is similar to this. This image structure of "ring in the middle, set in the middle" is not only like a true storytelling "Heaven is afraid of clouds, clouds are afraid of wind, wind is afraid of walls, walls are afraid of rats, rats are afraid of cats ..." In China folk story "Rats Marry Women", it is full of relaxed wisdom, full of fun and interest, and because of the series of image chains, four static state of affairs pictures have a visual sense of flow, which makes it. The main image of a broken chapter is a state of affairs, and there is a continuous flow between the two. Moreover, there are several state images in each state image, and the state images in each state image (such as "scenery" in the first section and "you" in the second section) appear repeatedly in the upper and lower sentences, which makes the whole poem have a running line. Therefore, it is completely different from the former, which makes the whole poem full of vitality and comfort.
This poem is implicit and meaningful, but the language is extremely simple and simple. Writing philosophy and life wisdom that everyone can understand but can't tell in words that everyone can understand reflects the poet's aesthetic attitude and pursuit of deliberately seeking work.
When talking about the rhythm of poetry, the poet said: "If you use more than two characters in a line, the rhythm will be fast, if you use two characters in a line, the rhythm will be slow, and if you use three or two characters in a line, the rhythm will be calm." "Broken chapter" mainly adopts the alternating arrangement of three or two words "dun", so the rhythm is calm, melodious and instantaneous feeling is a major feature of this poem.
In the preface to Selected Poems of the New Moon, Chen said: Bian's poems are "always concerned about the surprise in the light, just like a plate of sand that can't see the water under it". "Out of chapter" is just a bizarre thing with profound philosophy.
The symmetry of "broken chapters" clearly reflects the great influence of new metrical poems on the poet's early creation.