"Bewildered" means a thoughtful look.
Reason:
In order to visualize time and time, the author uses a series of metaphors Description transforms the originally invisible and intangible abstract time into various concrete and tangible images. You see, "the sun has legs", he can move and jump. In the eyes of the author, time is alive. , is a person full of spirituality. He comes quietly and goes in a hurry. When we wash our hands, eat, and lie silently on the bed, he is inseparable from us, and disappears in the blink of an eye. The author felt "at a loss" and wanted to "cover" it, but in the end, he could only "cover his face and sigh". The meaning of this writing is to show that the passage of time never stops, it flows all the time, cannot be stopped, and cannot be retained. Sighing is useless. Sighing itself is a waste of time, because when you sigh, time is passing by.
Hurry
Author. :Zhu Ziqing
The swallows have gone, but they will come again; the willows have withered, but they will bloom again; the peach blossoms have withered, but they will bloom again. But, smart one, tell me, our days. Why did they never come back? - Someone stole them: who was it? Where were they hiding? Or they escaped on their own: where are they now?
I don’t know how many days they gave me; but my hands are gradually becoming empty. Counting in silence, more than eight thousand days have slipped from my hands; like a drop of water on the tip of a needle dripping into the ocean, my days are dripping into the ocean. There is no sound or shadow in the flow of time. I can’t help but feel dizzy and burst into tears. ?
Although what has gone has gone, what has come is still coming; how hurried it is in between. What? When I got up in the morning, two or three slanting sun beams came into the hut. The sun had feet and moved gently and quietly. So - when I washed my hands, the day passed by the basin. The days passed by; when I was eating, the days passed by the rice bowl; when I was silent, the days passed by before my focused eyes. I noticed that he left in a hurry, and when I stretched out my hands to hold him back, he passed by my holding hands again. It was getting dark. At that time, I was lying on the bed, and he walked over me in an agile way and flew away from my feet. When I opened my eyes and saw the sun again, another day had slipped away. I covered my face and sighed. . But the shadow of the new days began to flash through the sigh again. ?
What can I do in this world of thousands of families when I am fleeing like flying away? There is only wandering, nothing but hurrying; in the rush of more than eight thousand days, what is left besides wandering? The past days are like light smoke, blown away by the breeze, like mist, evaporated by the early sun? ;What traces have I left? Why have I left traces like gossamer? I came to this world naked, and I will return naked in a blink of an eye. Why do I have to go through this life in vain? ? ?
You are smart, tell me, why are our days gone forever?
Appreciation: ?
Zhu Ziqing’s prose poem "Hurry" "Written on March 28, 1922. It was the ebb of the May Fourth Movement, and reality kept disappointing the author. However, the poet was not willing to sink in the hesitation, and he pursued persistently from the standpoint of "neutralism". He believes: "Various processes in life have their own independent meaning and value - every moment has the meaning and value of every moment! Every moment has its own appropriate position in the duration of time." (Zhu Ziqing's "To Yu Pingbo") "Letter" November 7, 2022)
Therefore, he must "step on the soil step by step and leave deep footprints" (Zhu Ziqing's "Destruction") in order to obtain "the satisfaction of the paragraph" ". The whole poem reveals the poet's inner complaint of injustice in a touch of sadness, which also reflects the common mood of intellectual youth during the ebb of the "May Fourth Movement". ?
"Hurry" is the poet's inspired work. The spring scene in front of him suddenly aroused his emotions, and the poet expressed it with the help of imagination. Imagination "makes unknown things take shape, and the poet's pen makes them complete, giving the ethereal nothing a place to live in and a name to call it."
(Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night" "Dream") The poet expresses ethereal time and abstract concepts through phenomena, and follows the clues of the poet's emotions to select and capture the vivid images. The poet's emotions show undulating waves as time goes by, from invisible to tangible, from looming to clear, a set of constantly changing pictures. ?
"The swallows have gone, but they will come again; the willows have withered, but they will bloom again; the peach blossoms have faded, but they will bloom again." The poet outlines a light picture with a few strokes. The author does not describe the actual feeling of the spring scene, but brings the readers into the picture, accepts the emotional infection, and at the same time makes visual hints: the prosperity and decay of nature shown in this picture are traces of the passage of time, from which the poet Trace the whereabouts of your own life. But "my" days are "gone forever", invisible and intangible. Was it "stolen" or "escaped"? The signs of natural metabolism contrast with his invisible days, revealing the poet's feeling of loss in a series of questions. ?
“Like a drop of water dripping into the ocean, my days are dripping into the flow of time.
"Comparing my eight thousand days to a drop of water is a novel metaphor. It is an extreme exaggeration. Compared with the vastness of the flow of time like the ocean, it highlights the "no sound, no shadow" characteristics of my life. In reality There are traces of his own life here, a drop of water is its embodiment, and the drop of water in the sea has its faint sound. The poet tried his best to feel it visually and auditorily, but the past eight thousand days were silent. The sound "slip away". The ruthlessness of time and the shortness of life make the poet "weeping" and "crying"?
How "hurried" is the poet? Making abstract discussions, he expresses his feelings and latent consciousness through images, "penetrating the familiar surface and looking for the "fresh things" (Zhu Ziqing, "Poetry and Poetry"). "Feeling") Therefore, the ethereal time is visualized, and the poet's "unique secret" is revealed in the accustomed life pictures?
"In the morning, two or three squares of slanting sun shine into the hut. . The sun moves slowly and quietly. "The sun was personified. He walked like a young girl and walked quietly past the poet. As the sun "moved", he also "rotated in a daze". Then the poet used a word The series of parallel sentences shows the flow of time. Eating, washing hands, and meditating are details of people's daily life, but the poet keenly sees the flow of time.
When he tries to retain it, it changes again. "Crossing" wisely, "flying" lightly, "slipping away" quietly, "flashing" quickly, the pace of time is getting faster and faster. The poet uses lively words to describe the image of time. In the constant changes, it gives people a sense of living life. We hear the light and lively footsteps of time, and also hear the trembling of the poet's heart?
In the rush of time, the poet. Wandering, pursuing deeply and stubbornly, the dark reality conflicts with his own enthusiasm, and the rush of time contrasts with his own inaction, which makes the poet see more clearly: "The past days are like light smoke, blown away by the breeze. It's like mist, evaporated by the early sun. ”
If the third section still uses the author’s specific feelings of a day to reflect the passage of time, and the individual to reflect the general, here the author has made a high-level summary of the passage of more than 8,000 days. , which condenses the various images of time rushing away on one point, making the passage of time more clear and perceptible: there is color, which is light blue and milky white; there is movement, which is "blown away" and being blown away. "Evaporated". The poet saw it, touched it, and consciously used all his body and mind to feel the passage of time, tracing the "gossamer traces" of his life?
The poet followed the flight of emotions. , the emotion creates a scene, visualizes the ethereal time, and adds a series of lyrical questions, which naturally reveals the self-struggle and self-confession of his soul, and can also see his persistent pursuit in the simplicity and plainness. Produces a strong lyrical atmosphere. ?
Poetry has the quality of musical beauty. Metrical poetry relies on meter and rhyme to express its musicality, while free verse also uses lines and rhymes to maintain its sense of rhythm. In addition to all these external forms, its musical beauty naturally emerges from the organic unity of the poet's inner emotional ups and downs and the rhythm of language. Hunter believes: "Although it is prose, it sometimes shows rhythm. Fully existing, so it branched off from its nominal type and acquired the name of 'prose poetry', which is a semi-rhythmic work in the field of poetry." ("Introduction to Aesthetics" translated by Fu Donghua) "Hurry "It is such a "semi-rhythmic work"?
"Hurry" expresses the rapid flow of emotions caused by the author's pursuit of time traces. The whole style is unified in "lightness", and the rhythm is vague and smooth. , brisk and fluent. In order to harmonize the rhythm of emotions, the author uses a series of parallel sentences: "When I wash my hands, the days pass by the basin; when I eat, the days pass by the rice bowl; when I am silent..." The same sentence pattern. It became streamlined, and the active and quiet pictures unfolded quickly, making me seem to see the flow of time.
And most of the sentences were short, with five or six words each, and the syntactic structure was brisk and smooth. It is simple, without many levels of changes, like a flowing river, like a harmonious piano, with continuous waves of sound. Its musicality does not focus on the cadence of the words, but on the smoothness and lightness of the sentences. To win, the author did not deliberately carve it out, but just "write it casually and honestly", using vivid and vivid spoken language to express the poetry without restraint. The rhythm of the language naturally matches the rhythm of the emotion. It makes the poem symmetrical and harmonious. ?
The use of overlapping words in "Hurry" also gives the language a rhythmic beauty. The sun is "slanting" and it moves "gently and cutely". "Bewildered" spins, time goes "hurriedly", it "smartly" crosses... The use of these overlapping words makes the poem not only achieve visual authenticity, but also achieve auditory authenticity, that is, on the one hand, the appearance On the one hand, the appearance of the passage of time also expresses the sound of time's march.
At the same time, the poet expresses objective things on the one hand, and expresses subjective feelings on the other. The sound of reality causes the poet's emotions to fluctuate. The sound of language is expressed, and emotions and scenes are naturally blended together. We can also see that the poet's repeated words are naturally and evenly distributed in each sentence to show its distant and distant rhythm, which is consistent with the author's subtle emotional fluctuations.
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The use of repetition is also a common method used in prose poetry to maintain its musical characteristics. The so-called "saying it again and again" not only shows the depth of the poet's emotion, but also adds to the melody of the poem. "Only wandering, nothing but hurrying; in the rush of more than eight thousand days, what else is left but wandering?" Words such as "wandering" and "hurrying" appear repeatedly, and a feeling of resentment echoes repeatedly.
"What traces have I left? How have I ever left traces like gossamers?" The changes in numbers in sentences with the same meaning advance the emotions layer by layer, showing neatness in the unevenness. beautiful. The repetition of the conclusion repeatedly strengthens the main theme of the work and depicts the ups and downs of the poet's emotions. The use of fuda and repeated chanting have the effect of singing three sighs.
The structure of "Hurry" is also very simple. The eleven questions are clues to the ups and downs of emotions. Questions are asked without answering, and they float by, which not only shows the smoothness of the work, but also the jumping nature of the poem's mood, allowing the image to unfold quickly. In order to show the jumping nature of emotions, general poems are often different from the general syntactic structure of language and omit some sentence components regardless of grammatical restrictions. This is not the case with prose poetry. It basically uses prose sentence patterns, and the author's emotional jumps are generally not as wide as free poetry.
But it is also different from prose. There are gaps between sentences and paragraphs, which are connected by the author's thoughts. The questions in "Hurry" are asked without answering, but the answers are implicit. This can not only inspire the readers' imagination, arouse deep thinking, and show its implicit beauty, but also the rapid flow of the emotions of the collaborators, showing the poetic mood. The rhythm is beautiful.