The chapter and sentence function of bamboo slips is that the poem consists of three chapters, and only a few words are changed in each chapter, which not only plays an artistic effect of repeating chapters and sentences, but also plays a role in promoting poetry.
Excerpt from the original:
The Millennium is frost. The so-called Iraqis are on the water side. Tracing back and forth, the road is blocked and long. Swim back from it, in the middle of the water
It's been a long time, and it hasn't changed for thousands of years. The so-called Iraqis are in the water. Tracing back and forth from it, the road is blocked and broken. Swim back from the inside and swim in the water.
Translation:
Large areas of reeds are green, and the morning dew is frosted. I miss my sweetheart. Standing on the other side of the river Go against the current to pursue her (him), and the road to follow her (him) is dangerous and long. Looking downstream, she (he) seems to be in the middle of the river. A large area of reeds is sad, and the dew in the morning has not dried.
I miss my sweetheart. She (he) is across the river. Pursuing her (him) against the current is bumpy and difficult. Down the river, she (he) seems to be in a small continent in the water.
The poem Unfolding Information shows the lyric hero's persistent pursuit of beautiful love and melancholy mood. The spirit is precious and the feelings are sincere, but the result is slim and the situation is sad.
But the most valuable thing in this poem is not the pursuit and loss of the lyric hero, but the artistic conception of "being on the water side" created by him, which has universal significance. Good poetry can create artistic conception. Artistic conception is a pattern and a structure, which has the performance of containing all heterogeneous things with similar patterns and structures.
The structure of On the Water is: chasing troops-rivers-Iraqis. Because the "Iraqi people" in the poem has no specific reference, and the meaning of the river lies in the barrier, all the pursuits that are difficult to achieve because of being blocked in the world can be isomorphic and resonate here.
On the Water is regarded as an artistic paradigm to express all the difficulties in social life. The "Iraqis" here can be talents, friends, lovers, achievements, ideals, prospects, and even blessed land, holy land and fairyland; The "river" here can be high mountains and deep valleys, patriarchal clan system and ethics, or any other obstacles that may be encountered in real life.
As long as there are pursuits, obstacles and disappointments, it is the world that it reproduces and expresses. In this way, the ancients interpreted it as persuading people to follow the etiquette, accepting talents and caring for others. Today, people regard it as a love poem, and some even regard it as a ritual of ancestor worship by the ancient water god. I'm afraid there is some truth. It seems inappropriate to stick to one family and exclude others, because they are all included in the symbolic meaning of "on the water side"