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How vivid the action is,
How energetic,
Jumping in the waves,
Floating on the sea.
Unfortunately, when the volcano erupts,
Could be an earthquake,
You lost your freedom,
Buried in the dust.
Hundreds of millions of years later,
Member of geological survey team
Found you in the rocks,
Still lifelike.
But you were silent,
Not even a sigh,
Scales and fins are intact,
But don't move.
You're absolutely still,
No response to the outside world,
Can't see the sky and water,
I can't hear the waves.
Staring at a fossil,
Even fools learn a lesson:
Without exercise,
There is no life.
To live is to fight,
March forward in the struggle,
When death did not come,
Clean up the energy
Ai Qing's Fish Fossil is a philosophical poem. He got a painful life feeling from the special experience he experienced in fish fossils, which has strong practical significance. He also expressed the most common and basic philosophy of life through symbolic techniques, vivid images and simple and ordinary language. Fish Fossil is a unique song sung by the poet Ai Qing after his "return". As a poem about objects, it expresses mourning and mourning for the lost life by describing the bloody fact that a creature was buried by dust for no reason.
The first six verses of the poem are quite wonderful, which vividly describes the evolution process of a fish from being full of vitality to being killed for no reason and then becoming a fossil. How vibrant this fish was before it was killed: "how lively the action is" and "how energetic it is"; It is so unrestrained and free: "jumping in the waves" and "floating in the sea". Fish, a healthy, happy and omnipotent lifestyle, can't help but remind us of tigers in their prime, pointing out the mountains and inspiring words. They have made great achievements in the golden season of life, "they can spend nine days on the moon" and "they can catch turtles in five oceans". Their demeanor of swallowing the world and their arrogance are inspiring and inspiring. It's a pity that "unexpected events happen in the sky", the eruption of volcanoes or the occurrence of earthquakes have unfortunately taken away the life of young fish. It was buried in the dust for countless centuries, and it was still alive, youthful and active until geologists found it in the rock strata. But at this time, the style and modality have been fixed and symbolized, and the connotation of life has been taken away by time. Fossil fish are silent. What is the significance of this lack of agility and formal integrity in life? In the face of great natural and man-made disasters, human beings often appear extremely small and fragile. When we witness the sudden collapse of a fresh life, what can we do except deep sorrow and deep memory?
The poet not only pays tribute to the innocent fish, but also mourns his own life. Once, an unprecedented political catastrophe took away the poet's time for more than ten years for no reason. Ten years is so precious to a person. How many decades does a person's life last? Therefore, we can see that the experience of fish in the poem is a symbol of the poet's experience. Not only that, the experience of fish also symbolizes the experience of all intellectuals who are treated unfairly by society like Ai Qing. Xie Mian, a poetry critic, said, "Fossil fish certainly has the nature of a poet's autobiography, but it provides a typical meaning. This is not a story about the death of a fish, but a story involving different fish with the same unfortunate and tragic fate. This is what I said earlier,' associating many fish with fossils'. This is a superposition of personal experience and the times. "
The last two sections directly point out the main idea of the poem, and the poet extends the description of fish fossils to the interpretation of the law of survival and the philosophy of struggle. The poet tells us that life comes from movement, and struggle shows survival, which is the eternal life logic. The refining and elucidation of this philosophy should be more suitable for fish fossils. However, I think the last two sentences give the impression that the dog's tail is followed by a mink. For the whole poem, not only did it not achieve the sublimation of thought and the promotion of art, but it reduced the richness of the unique symbol of "fish fossils" to some extent. At the same time, the survival law and struggle philosophy expounded in the last two sections are not new, and they still retain the obvious brand of cultural revolution thinking. Therefore, Fish Fossil, which is also a poem describing objects and has a direct theme, may not be as rich in aesthetic significance and artistic appeal as Reef, which has no direct theme and only imagery hints.
Fish fossils. The work expresses the theme of returning home and is a profound reflection on life after suffering. It not only has distinct personal characteristics, but also contains rich social content, which embodies the poet's strong feelings of worrying about the country and the people. The poem "But you are silent, even without a sigh. Your scales and fins are intact, but you can't move." Reminiscent of Lu Xun's famous prose poem "Dead Fire". "You are absolutely still, have no reaction to the outside world, can't see the sky and water, and can't hear the sound of the waves." There is a double meaning here, which means that people who are suffocated by the environment have lost their vitality, and it seems that they still have doubts about the unresponsive behavior of the outside world after regaining their freedom.
Fish fossils (said by fish or women) Bian Zhilin
I want the shape of your arm,
I tend to dissolve in the waterline.
You really love me like a mirror,
You and I are far apart, but we have fish fossils.
Bian 1933 graduated from the English Department of Peking University in the summer, and met him in the Chinese Department of Peking University in the same summer. Bian has been here, relatives. Unfortunately, Zhang Chonghe later went to the United States with her American husband, and Bian also got married on 1955 1 October1. In Bian's poems, "you", "I" and "he" are all relative, giving people a broader imagination. Out of context, some people regard "you on the bridge" as a man and "the man upstairs" as a woman. I'd rather watch it. In Fossil Fish, the author indicated from the beginning that it was a fish or a woman, and I prefer to regard "I" as a man, which goes against the author's creative intention, but can we say that the author's explanation is just to cover himself up?
The first sentence in the poem is "my" desire for love. Concrete love, turning into a "hug", is a warm and romantic imagination. The second sentence says that I am often "a thread dissolved in water". I think this poem is more suitable for understanding that as a man, "I" often falls in love with "you" as gentle as water. Next, "I" don't know if you love me as much as I love you. This is both a confession and an inquiry. "I" was full of hope in a burst of doubt. The last sentence, "You and I are far away", you and I have no hope, you are you, I am me, and the future is irrelevant. But being a "fish fossil" means that "fish is not the original fish and stone is not the original stone", and you and I have changed each other. Fish fossils are not the best combination of fish and stones. When fish are imprisoned in stones, they are completely different from each other and do not blend. From the choice of images, does the contrast between "fish" and "stone" contain a kind of affection and indifference? From this perspective, this poem seems to be a poem of resentment, a poem of resentment against "men". Mr. Bian is a man, but he has a woman's heart. Although these two poems are both understood as love poems, they have their own emphasis on Europeanization and modernization. If Broken Chapters is more inspired by classical poetry, then Fish Fossil absorbs more foreign modern poetry resources.