Poetry is like love
[France] Deji
The days are numbered
But we know how to create a train of singing exiles The train
The trees were washed away by the sound of prayers
Ophelia drifted with the passing river
The sound leads the meaning Towards the Poetry Bed
What do we call this gift?
Poetry is like love, which sacrifices everything symbolically.
(Translated by Gray, selected from "Dictionary of Appreciation of World Famous Poems")
Appreciation
This is a poem that uses poetry to explain the poetics. When the poet compares poetry to love, poetry also has the meaning of lover, lover, home and destination.
Poets are spiritual wanderers and exiles. They have almost forgotten their secular time and found their destination and home in poetry. The trees were "washed away" and "Ophelia drifted with the passing river". It is the poet's eternal "prayer" and "singing" that make the world full of love and emotion. "Sound", "meaning" and "symbol" are Deji's emphasis on poetic language and musicality. Anti-language and anti-meaning have to be carried out by means of language and meaning, and in the end they are neither counter-reversed nor counter-reversed. After the dispersion of prose culture, musicality is called, understood and valued by the heart. The language and musicality of poetry have always been crucial elements of poetry.
It is worth pointing out that the four words "we understand" are based on a deep understanding of the world, life, poetry, and poets, and therefore have considerable depth and weight; and "a column contains "The Train of Singing Exiles" is an extremely accurate, novel and vivid expression of poetry that travels across the land. The question-and-answer sentence pattern at the end clearly highlights the theme of "poetry is like love" and the emphasis on language and meaning. The artistic expression is lively, concise and powerful.
(Yang Yuanhong)