"Fragmented Chapter" is the representative work of the "Crescent School" poet Bian Zhilin. This is a section of a long poem extracted by the author. The work is subtle and sophisticated, but the language is extremely simple and plain, and contains profound philosophy of life.
The first stanza of the poem captures a picture of tourists observing the scenery during the day. Although it is written about "looking at the scenery", the pen and ink are not used to describe the scenery. It only inadvertently reveals the bridge, the building, the viewer, as well as the flowing water and the cruise ship that can be inferred from this. , That bank of willows... It's like a light ink painting, leaving the looming blurred background to the reader's imagination.
The focus of the picture falls on the people on the bridge and the people upstairs looking at the scenery. To be more precise, it falls on the interaction between these two people looking at the scenery while watching the scenery. The very interesting and dramatic relationship that took place.
There are one to four sentences in the whole poem, each of which can be used as an independent image of the situation: "You look at the scenery", "People looking at the scenery look at you", "The bright moon decorates your window", "You decorate other people's dreams."
In the first stanza, the first sentence "you" is the subject of the situation, and "landscape" is the object of the situation; but in the second sentence, the "landscape" that was once the object suddenly changes and becomes Part of the subject, "you" that was once the subject has moved from the beginning of the first sentence to the end of the second sentence and has become the object.
Extended information:
"Broken Chapter" was written in October 1935. It is an exquisite philosophical poem. According to the author Ziyun, these four lines were originally in a long poem, but he was satisfied with these four lines in the whole poem, so he extracted them into an independent chapter, hence the title.
The era in which "Fragmented Chapter" was written made it inevitably influenced by foreign poetry, but Bian Zhilin intentionally or unintentionally implanted elements of classical poetry into the poem. That's its intertextuality. "Broken Chapter" depicts an interconnected world through "seeing" and "decoration". In the first stanza of the poem, "You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery/The people watching the scenery are watching you upstairs." Bian Zhilin does not limit herself to her predecessors, but pushes the scenery away and examines each other with an omniscient and omnipotent third pair of eyes. Watching the world.
At the same time, the poet is also using the technique of "A Chinese Girl's Leaving Soul" to look at herself. In this sense, "Fragmented Chapter" and Wang Guowei's words are in the same vein. The first stanza and the second stanza of the poem: "The bright moon decorates your windows/you decorate other people's dreams," complement each other and are integrated into one. In the long history of Chinese literature, there has long been the story of Zhuangzi dreaming of butterflies.
Zhuangzi and the butterfly decorate each other, which is a confusing but integrated dream, reflecting a beautiful wish of mankind. "Broken Chapter" also creates a beautiful dream for people through "seeing" and "decoration". After all, humans are social animals. While pursuing a free life, they will inevitably fall into other people's eyes and dreams.
"Fragmented Chapter" constructs a rich poetic realm, poetic interest, and poetic thoughts through several groups of images, and also sets up a "natural chasm turns into a thoroughfare" between the images through the true convolution of the images. Flybridge, under the continuity of its logical structure, the thin skeleton of the image immediately becomes full and rich in people's vision, and the links continue to expand, eventually forming an infinitely rich, complete and full art world.
There are one to four sentences in the whole poem, each of which can be used as an independent image of the situation: "You look at the scenery", "People looking at the scenery look at you", "The bright moon decorates your window", "You decorate other people's dreams." In the first stanza, the first sentence "you" is the subject of the situation, and "landscape" is the object of the situation; but in the second sentence, the "landscape" that was once the object suddenly changes and becomes part of the subject. However, the "you" in the sentence moved from the beginning of the first sentence to the end of the second sentence and became the object.
The second section is similar to this. This kind of image structure of "rings within rings, sets within sets" is not only similar to the true ballad in the Chinese folk tale "The Mouse Marries a Girl", "The sky is afraid of clouds, the clouds are afraid of wind, the wind is afraid of walls, the walls are afraid of mice, and mice are afraid of cats." ..." is the same, full of relaxed wisdom, full of interest and fun. Moreover, due to the connection of the image chain, the four static scenes have a sense of visual flow, making it like a movie scene, with scenes pouring into the eyes, making it... The static and abstract Chinese character symbols become fluid and concrete visual images.
People have to sincerely marvel at the poet's uncanny craftsmanship. The main image of "Broken Chapter" is that of events, showing a smooth flow between them. Moreover, each state of affairs image is divided into several physical state images, and the physical state images in each state of affairs image (such as "landscape" in the first stanza, "you" in the second stanza) are repeated in the upper and lower sentences. It gives the whole poem a through line, so it is completely different from the jumping and jumping sense of the former, making the whole poem full of energy, accessible and comfortable.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - "Fragmented Chapter"