Read Ma Ruilin's Notes on Miniature Poems
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Ming Dynasty traveler Xu Xiake died at the age of fifty-six, and spent more than thirty years traveling through mountains and rivers. Ma Ruilin's poem "Xu Xiake" has only two lines: "The mountains and rivers of Yunnan are trekked in his travel notes" is the second line. The poetic meaning comes out when the mountains and rivers are transformed into people. The first sentence is "He trekked in the mountains and rivers of Yunnan." Although the language is ordinary, the second sentence is fictitious. The whole poem blends the virtual and the real, and people and objects are inverted, which shows the poet's strange thoughts. The key is the word "traveling in". adjective.
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The Dai Water Splashing Festival on TV is just a lively and joyful scene. Ma Ruilin's "Water Splashing Festival" not only makes people feel joyful, but also has a strong poetic meaning: "Wet laughter / in the wet sunshine / weaves wet dreams." The laughter is wet, and the sun is wet It's dripping wet, and dreams are also dripping wet. The poem skillfully uses synaesthesia to write the poem vividly and vividly. The adjective "wet" is used together and skillfully to make people intoxicated in the poem.