Poetry and Intuition —— On Zhu Guangqian's Poetry
The realm of poetry is what intuition sees, and it is the content of intuition, not the content of name and reason.
Reading or writing a poem often requires hard thinking. After thinking, once it is suddenly penetrated, the realm of the whole poem suddenly appears in front of you like an epiphany, which makes people feel relaxed and forget everything. This is intuition, which is what Zen scholars call "enlightenment".
If a realm cannot become an independent and self-sufficient image intuitively, it will not become a realm of poetry.
All creative "seeing" is intuition. When you meditate, there is only one complete image in your mind, no comparison, no analysis, and it doesn't matter. As a result, I often forget things, identify with things, exchange interests and States of things back and forth, and people and things blend unconsciously. This phenomenon is called empathy.
The realm of poetry is the combination of scenes. Things in the universe often develop in change, and scenes are born together. Therefore, the realm of poetry is created, and beautiful and wonderful poetry comes from the poet's intuition and is endless.
As far as poetry is concerned, there is no difference between appreciation and creation. Appreciating a poem is re-creation. Creation will never repeat, and appreciation will never repeat. The realm of real poetry is infinite and always fresh.
As Schopenhauer analyzed, the universe and life contain two elements: will and image.
Where there is will, there is demand, and there is emotion, which is the source of all distress and sadness.
The savior of life's pain is for image. Image is the externalization of will, and with image, people can achieve transcendence, overlook the struggle of will, and suddenly realize the strangeness of the outside world, which is pleasing to the eye.
According to Schopenhauer's pessimistic philosophy, Nietzsche developed the theory of "liberation from image".
He used two Greek names to symbolize the conflict between will and image. Dionysus, the god of wine, was endowed with the energy and enthusiasm to prepare for activities at all times, and at the same time he felt the changeable pain, so he sank all the pain into drunkenness, drunkenness in debauchery and drunkenness in crazy singing and dancing.
Pain is the basic spirit of Dionysus, and singing and dancing is the art of Dionysus' spiritual expression.
This image is very similar to Apollo, the sun god. With the high light, everything in the world shows its own image through its brilliance. He is enjoying it calmly. When all the "changes" get the "image", they are destined to become "real" (return to nature).
Silence is the basic spirit of Apollo, and painting and sculpture are the art of Apollo spirit.
These two spirits are absolutely antagonistic and conflicting, but the wisdom of the Greeks created a miracle and broke this conflict.
They moved the mirror of Apollo to shine on Dionysus's painful struggle, so their will was taken out of the image, and the pain was shaped into a solemn and beautiful shape, which caused the Greek tragedy. Tragedy is a way for Greeks to "get rid of their image". Tragedy is a beautiful image seen by the Greeks from the perspective of art in defects, disasters and sins.
Although Nietzsche specifically refers to tragedy, it also applies to poetry and general art.
Ordinary people think that interest is bound by interest, but when a poet feels interested, he can jump aside and calmly observe and play it as an image.
Wordsworth, an English poet, said from his own experience: "Poetry begins with a feeling aroused in silence." This is a wise saying. Tony quoted the truth from a book, but he finished it in one sentence.
It is the poet's unique ability to feel and enjoy the taste in silence.
Ordinary people's emotions are like flowing after rain, mixed with sludge and rotten wood, flowing down, vast and without trace.
The poet's state of mind is like water in a winter pool. The dregs are completely precipitated, crystal clear and the sky is bright.
The aftertaste in silence is the infiltration procedure of the poet, and the spiritual understanding is the infiltration device of the poet.
In the real world, there are conflicts everywhere. Happy people cause begging, while sad people cause fear and avoidance. In the realm of poetry, dust, troubles and mundane things are washed away, and joy and sadness coexist, and the conflicting parties are in their proper places and live in peace.
This is a Greek tragedy, which purifies people's hearts and is also a wonderful use of the poet's empathy transformation.