New metrical poetry
Mr. Wen Yiduo is not only a Crescent poet, but also the earliest and most effective practitioner of modern metrical poetry in the entire Chinese poetry circle. Wen Yiduo emphasized that poetry is "made" and that "beauty is not ready-made" but is created (Jianwen Yiduo, "The Local Color of the Goddess"). Therefore, he proposed the concept of modern metrical poetry and believed that new metrical poetry should achieve three beauties: "The strength of poetry not only includes the beauty of music (syllables), the beauty of painting (words) and the beauty of architecture (symmetry and stanzas). The neatness of sentences)" (Wen Yiduo's "The Rhythm of Poetry"). It should be said that "Color" and "Dead Water" both have the beauty of modern metrical poetry
Color"
Life is a worthless white paper,
Since green/gave me/development,
red/gave me/enthusiasm,
yellow/taught me loyalty,
blue/taught I give me / nobility,
pink / give me / hope,
gray / give me / sadness,
black / give me / more die.
From then on,
I doted on / my life,
because I / loved his / color.
"Color", this is a philosophical poem. Through bold imagination, the poet endows colors with various symbolic meanings, thereby reminding the value of colors, explaining that life is a combination of colors, and expressing his love for colorful life. The emotional tone of the whole poem is warm and unrestrained.
"Color" has musical beauty. The form of this poem is very free, similar to the arrangement of lines in prose, but when read repeatedly, it has an intriguing inner emotional rhythm.
In "Color", Mr. Wen Yiduo introduces the expression and connotation of colors in paintings into poetry and abstract life, giving them different colors, so that people can have rich associations and endless thoughts when reading. reverie. Green (development) is the color of grass sprouting; red (enthusiasm) is the color of the sun, the color of fire, and the color of the heart, which symbolizes the passion, persistence, and warmth of life; yellow (loyalty) is nobility , the color of tranquility, is the color that kings like and is inseparable from loyalty; blue (nobility) is the color of the sea and sky, symbolizing broadness, broadness, and nobility; pink (hope) is the color of flower buds, symbolizing splendor and beauty and hope; gray (sadness) is the color of dead wood and cold iron, symbolizing frustration, coldness, and sadness; and black (death) is the color of ashes and coal. It is solemn and solemn, and usually symbolizes death and the end. From green to black, life goes through the process from birth to death.
The author of "Color" uses metaphors, symbols, parallelism and other rhetorical methods. In addition, the poet's imagination is mainly expressed in the first nine lines of the poem. It gives people rich imagination, makes people think, and inspires people to take life seriously.