Gu Cheng's Fantasia of Life is full of novel imagination. All these imaginations have one thing in common, that is, they are the result of individual life merging into nature. Therefore, "I" can "put my longings and dreams into a long and narrow shell", let the sun be my tracker, "throw off the new moon-the anchor of gold", "weave the golden straw into a cradle/put my inspiration and heart in" ... This series of genius imaginations makes us feel that we are not standing on the other side of the world. It's about putting life into it. The whole world is my emotional world, gentle and affectionate. When we are in an alienated world, as a part of the whole social machine, we have to live within the framework of rationality like a cold machine, and poetry may be our only warm window.
Gu Cheng's Fantasia for Life is still a 15-year-old poet's thinking about life and destiny. Gu Cheng is a poet loyal to his ideals. Therefore, idealism always shines in his poems. The first three paragraphs of Fantasia for Life are the poet's affirmation and expectation of an ideal and free life realm. "No purpose/blue sky rippling/letting sunshine waterfall/blackening my skin" is such a carefree life! From this poem, we can see a Zhuangzi-style carefree outlook on life. The third part is the poet's thinking about time. In the face of time, we are always involuntarily pulled by the "strong light rope" and "walk the twelve-hour journey". Our life is passive, "pushed by the wind/pushed east and west". The sentence "The sun disappears in the twilight" is really good. The feeling of the irresistible force of fate is all concentrated in this sigh. The advantage of poetry is that it is unknown, but it is realistic. How did poetry achieve this magical effect? This is an image. Why does the image have such charm? I think it is the combination of human mind and image.
The fourth quarter is "Night arrival/I am driving into the harbor of the Milky Way". What do I see? "Millions of stars are watching me", "The ocean is full of icebergs/crashing/"rumbling "-lightning and thunder. When I left the new moon, the golden anchor, I asked fate again: "where am I going?" /The universe is so boundless. " Yes, nature is so vast, but people are so small. How to explore the infinite secrets of nature with limited life?
The poet's answer is this: "I put my hope in a flower/the night is like a valley/the sun is like a peak/I sleep, and closing my eyes/the world has nothing to do with me." Life is limited, there are inevitably valleys and peaks in fate, and ups and downs are common. And "I will dissolve my hope in the fragrance of flowers", so what if my life will eventually pass away? I have tasted the beauty of nature and life. That's enough. Therefore, even if "time horse/exhausted", "yellow-tailed peace bird/nesting in my car", life will come to an end, "I will still travel all over the world-/deserts, forests and remote corners".
The sun is roasting the earth/like baking a loaf of bread. What a genius imagination! "I walked barefoot/I printed my footprints/spread all over the earth/world like stamps, and it was integrated into my life. Yes, life is a walking process. Wherever I go, my footprints are integrated into my life. Perhaps the meaning of life is to experience and witness in this walk.
The poet's ambition is "I want to sing/a human song/in the universe after a thousand years". Perhaps, he has achieved it.