Spring
Mudan
The green flame is swaying on the grass,
He is eager to hug you, flower.
Against the land, flowers come out,
When the warm wind blows, there is trouble or joy.
If you are awake, open the window,
Look how beautiful this garden is.
Under the blue sky, what is bewitched by the eternal mystery
is our 2-year-old closed body.
Just like the song of the bird made of clay,
you are ignited, curled and curled, but there is nowhere to go.
Oh, light, shadow, sound and color are all naked,
in pain, waiting for a new combination.
Mu Dan is a representative of the "Nine Leaves School" poets in the 194s, and also a very successful one among modern poets. His works are praised as "the best expression of the almost cold consciousness of modern intellectuals" (in Yuan Kejia). His familiarity with modern British and American poets, especially Ye Zhi, Eliot and Auden, his absorption of their poetic theory and critical theory, and his youthful vitality all make his poems have outstanding modern characteristics. In the poem "Spring", all this is also very obvious.
In Mu Dan's poem, we can find three groups of words with different tones. One is strong and dynamic: flame, swaying, longing, hugging, resisting, stretching, pushing and igniting; The second is static: green, land, looking, refuge; This is the opposition between grass and flowers, and the internal opposition in spring; It is also the opposition between "awakening" and "bewitching", the opposition between the desire of life in adolescence and the poet's meditation image. "Window" is a medium, which separates and connects "desire" and "seeing", thus bringing about a third group of words that embody tension: closed, curled and combined. These three groups of words interweave with each other, forming the basic framework of poetry, and also laying the lyrical tone of poetry, which is heavy, solid and full of modernity; Compact and tense language; And full rhythm and concentrated images.
so, what is spring like? It is awakening, the first birth and rebirth, but also the temptation of desire and addiction; It is flying songs and open joy, but also stagnant soil and closed body; It is burning, dispersing and resisting, and it is also a new combination and rebirth after being scattered. It is the natural spring and the youth of life, and it is the budding of the poet's spring heart and the bursting of his poetic heart. The trinity of dawn, early spring and youth at the age of twenty is just like the nakedness of light, shadow, sound and color and the openness of senses and thoughts. They are waiting for the emergence of new combinations.
Poets feel the conflict of opposing ideas: awake/intoxicated, stagnant/flying, rooted/shaken off, which can be expressed through vivid images related to "spring": green/flame, embrace/resistance, closed/naked, land/flower, soil/song, curl/stretch in. The poet's mood is also changing, from the annoyance and joy from the warm wind to the nervous pain. Such as windows and eyes, he is intoxicated and watching; Like a bird, he sings and expects. This is the infatuation and waiting for the new life and strong impulse.