Thoughts on Reading Li Xun's Glass Cleaner

Nothing, just read a poem. What a person needs in his heart, you will show it through some things. We don't care what kind of poet Li Xun is, but the poet finally found a glass to present his inner needs. He is not so much a glass cleaner as a glass cleaner himself. He is wiping with poetry, he is wiping with his heart, and he is wiping quietly. He said happily that this is a transparent labor. Transparency, such a word, finally made everyone think of it. How many people are still working in the dark? These are not the poet's concerns. At this time, he was absorbed in his work, which supported the growth of seedlings like sunshine. Maybe that's what school is like. Maybe Li Xun is a teacher. Of course, we don't speculate. At least we can be sure that cleaning the glass is a very sunny and happy thing. His hands are moving, and he wants others to see his work and his carefulness. But nobody paid attention to him. On the contrary, he noticed the pedestrians in the street himself. He feels that cleaning the glass is not a simple touch, and it must be carefully cleaned. When he was cleaning the glass, he was cleaning the pedestrians. He hopes to show those people with his own labor. My heart is as transparent as glass, and my purity, innocence and loveliness have been obliterated by others. I also hope to polish them with my own actions. No words, no listening, he has been wiping. Finally, he found that no matter how he rubbed it, pedestrians were not affected, but stained his glass. Those pedestrians are so far away from the glass that they can't touch them at all. what should he do ？

Li Xun is a man with a pure heart. His poems are really like water, seemingly calm, but in fact they are surging inside. He is good at discovering poetry from small things and opening up new ideas. He chose a piece of glass as a metaphor to present his inner needs and requirements by wiping the glass. The writing is forbearing and implicit, and the emotional control is also in place. There is no cry, it is like a grass silently green, asking about the impermanence of the weather, and like a light music, there is pain and happiness in soothing. But in the poem, silent labor is so transparent and lonely, a little slow. In front of the glass cleaner, I personally think this sentence is redundant. Perhaps the poet deliberately left a note in pursuit of a slow rhythm.

Glass Cleaner-Li Xun

Glass cleaners have no secrets.

Transparent labor

Just like sunlight supports the growth of seedlings.

His hand moved on the smooth glass.

Let people think that he is waving to someone.

Through the glass

Pedestrians who can see the street clearly

Wipe the glass

Don't touch.

In his eyes, he is also an experimenter.

All afternoon.

Window Cleaners

No words

I didn't listen.

Silent labor

So transparent

So lonely

In front of the glass cleaner

The clean glass finally made him feel

How messy those pedestrians are.

But it is so untouchable.

Reading Li Xun's The Glass Cleaner reminds me of Jia Dao's lyric poem "Leave a note for an absent episode". Through the relationship between me, the teenager and the hermit, the whole poem writes the environment, characters and plots in 20 words, and vividly shows the author's feelings of missing people and the lofty performance of the hermit in the form of questions and answers. Glass cleaner is similar. Through the relationship between glass, people and people outside the glass, borrowing the metaphor of glass transparency, and through the process of wiping, the author's pursuit of life and exclamation of living environment are reflected. The internal massiness and rhythm of this poem are analyzed as follows:

1. Quiet and profound. Only when a poet is quiet can he write a good poem. Only when a poet calms down and thinks seriously can he understand poetry. Otherwise, writing poetry will be dry and readers will be at sixes and sevens. People who clean glass have no secret and transparent work, just as sunlight supports the growth of seedlings. The idiom "quiet and far-reaching" is more appropriate to describe the secret to transparency and the smell of sunlight to seedlings. Only when the poet is quiet can he find that glass is poetic, transparent, sunny and ideal for stretching.

2. The mirror is picturesque. His hand moves on the smooth glass, which makes people feel that he is waving to someone. The poet comes straight to the point, his heart is like a mirror, and he directly describes what he has investigated substantively. He uses gestures and waves to express his sense of clarity, distance and intimacy, so that careful readers seem to be in the painting. Thirdly, the glass is very thick and has a beautiful impact vision. It's not shocking, but at least it's exciting.

3. The water depth is slow. The emotions of some poems are like waterfalls, and the momentum is amazing. Some poems, like sea water, flow slowly and need careful reading and observation to appreciate the depth of the sea. That kind of soothing tone, that kind of comfortable feeling, can only be realized when you really walk into the sea. Li Xun seems to be pursuing such a realm. He put the process of wiping and the process of perception, without metaphor, only with direct narration. Through the glass, you can directly see the pedestrians on the other side. Wipe, not touch, the power generated by the comparison of the two words makes you jump to another realm quickly. Vision constantly changes colors, not only wiping glass, but also wiping pedestrians. This gives the glass cleaner a deeper connotation and thinking space. This unhurried tone slowly opens the picture and quietly enjoys the beauty and tension caused by the collision between words, which makes us clearly realize the depth of the poet's study of poetry, showing nature and showing superb artistic appeal. At this time, I want to express my respect for the poet's slow writing of good poems with the depth of water.

Text/Qin Zhiliang