This poem was written in May 1926, when the poet Xu Zhimo first met Lin in London. At that time, Xu Zhimo met Lin by chance, which ignited the fire of love and inspired him to write poems. With a wave of his hand, he got this masterpiece. It was first published in the 9th issue of Morning Post Supplement Poetry on May 27th of the same year, and signed by Zhimo. This is also the lyrics of the old blind man in the fifth act of the script Bian Kungang written by Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman.
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Literary appreciation
This short poem with two paragraphs and ten lines is unique in modern poetry. In the history of poetry, a thousand long poems can be buried by the ruthless historical precipitation with the passage of time, while some exquisite short poems can transcend history and shine alone.
As a "romantic poet", the symbolic meaning of Xu Zhimo's poem (both a general symbol and a local image symbol) may be particularly noteworthy.
"Accidental" is a completely abstract adverb of time. What to write under this heading should be said to be free and arbitrary, and the author wrote two practical things under this abstract heading.
One is the wave heart that clouds in the sky occasionally project into the water, and the other is that "you" and "I" (both symbolic images) meet at sea. If we use quite practical words such as "you and me" and "meeting" as the title, the tension between abstraction and concreteness will naturally disappear.
Xu Zhimo can visualize such an abstract adverb of time as "accident" and put it into a symbolic structure, which is full of interest and philosophy. Not only beautiful, catchy, but also memorable.
The whole poem has two sections, which are symmetrical up and down. The first sentence, the second sentence and the fifth sentence of each section are all composed of three steps. For example, the third and fourth sentences of each paragraph are composed of two steps, such as "You don't have to be surprised" and "You'd better forget when you remember".
Obviously, there is no lack of free and easy steps in the arrangement and handling. The longer steps ask each other, which is easy, euphemistic and catchy to read. Under the title of "chance", which can give birth to many images, images such as "cloud" and "water", "you" and "me", "sea in the night" and "light in mutual interpretation" and their relationships are formed.
It can be understood or constructed differently because of the difference of readers' personal emotional experience and the depth of experience intensity. This is the wonderful use of the "symbol" of "its name is also small, and its categories are also large" (easy to connect), with more to less, more to small, and more to individual.
Or the world is cold, or the mood is wrong, or it's too late to regret ... Life is bound to have such an "accident", "encounter" and "encounter", and this "shining light at the handover" will definitely become an unforgettable memory, accompanied by life.
This poem is not only a simple love poem, but also contains a sigh of life. Clouds and water are separated by Wan Li. Occasionally, a beautiful cloud image is projected at the center of the wave, but it disappears in a flash. Ships sailing at sea meet in the dark, but each has its own direction, meet by chance, but leave in a hurry.
Life is like this. Everyone has their own fixed life trajectory. Meeting is accidental, but the other side of life is inevitable. There are many accidents in the journey of life, such as the love met at the corner and the fate formed by the encounter, but these accidental love and fate are just a flash in the pan, coming in a hurry and going in a hurry, and then returning to their own life trajectories and moving on.
For these accidental love and fate, people don't need happiness, but it's better to forget, because everyone has their own direction and people can't change their lives, so forget it, forgetting the intersection is the light that releases each other.
This is the helplessness of life, but it is also the best choice in life. Only without attachments can we move on, and there are more accidents on the road ahead. If every accidental encounter is accompanied by you and your heart is concerned, then life will deviate from the track and you will not be able to reach the inevitable other shore.
In this poem, Xu Zhimo conveys emotional restraint.
He said it was best to forget the light released by that meeting, which was a strangulation of accidental feelings. Xu Zhimo returned to China with the romanticism of Europe and America, integrated the eastern and western civilizations, and finally formed his own aestheticism style. But this poem suppresses the beauty of accidental meeting, which is caused by the changes of the times.
Xu Zhimo is in the darkest age. He can't escape the ugliness and struggle inherent in this era, and he can't deviate from the established and unchanging trajectory of life. Therefore, he reluctantly chooses to suppress his inner feelings and forget the accidental meeting. However, accepting life finally made Xu Zhimo know how to let go smartly, so he said, "If you remember, you'd better forget." ?
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