Poems written by children use simple words, and rare words are basically not seen. Nouns and verbs are common. The only unmatched ability of adults to read children's poems is imagination. For example, Jiang erman's poem "Light":
Adults say that life is not just the present, but also poetry and distance. But for children, poetry is not far away, it is nearby. Reading Jiang Erman's poems, we will see how a child explores the world she sees, such as apples, such as fireflies, watermelons and shrimp cakes, which are common things in poems. Jiang erman has her own right to speak and tell others what she has seen and tried. In this song "Morning", the sky lights up like this:
Adults are used to saying that it is beginning to dawn. But personally, it is blind to feel "bright". In Jiang erman's poem, her eyes are the source of dawn, not anything else. The change of light comes from the capture of the eyes.
Reading children's poems, too many comments can only show the barren imagination. Adults have calculations but have no feelings about the world. Adult poems are either used to accuracy and what is not. Either you are good at hiding the mystery in words and writing poems like chanting. Poetry is not important, image is important. So that I wrote a poem, and the gods and buddhas danced all over the sky. In children's poetry, simple imagination has initially appeared. For example, this poem "Ancient Poetry" by Jiang Man:
An ancient poem can best represent its era, and then this poem. From this perspective, what Jiang Erman understands is the appearance of ancient poems, not how they are written, but how they are ancient. The word "ancient" gives people a lot of room for extension.
In another book of poetry, Children's Poetry, we can also see how more imagination observes and shapes the world. For example, I like this song:
Children's poems are all about things around them. We will notice that there is no strong emotion in children's poems, or more accurately, children's feelings about the world around them are forming, and they are not very good at dealing with the relationship with the world with their own emotions. Therefore, children's poetry is only a quiet description, and finally ends with a simple "question". This kind of treatment will remind adults, in the process of personal growth, will our ability to ask questions be enhanced or weakened? In the process of blindly accepting the standard answer, we may have questioned the answer, but we may rarely question the answer itself.
Adults' imagination is shrinking step by step in their accustomed growth experience, which is always the case and precedent to follow. I don't mean to treat adults as meat on the chopping block and then roll the knife. Life is hard enough. There is no need to tell adults how to treat imagination. Losing it does not mean losing the ability to live, and imagination will not become the source of life. Reading children's poems is more to let adults know that each of us is full of imagination and liveliness at some stage of our lives. The difference is that as we grow up, everyone throws away a different amount of imagination. Just as knowledge has a standard answer after the appearance of textbooks. Imagination may have the same fate.
In these children's poems, I saw how the ability of "asking" germinated, asking questions, asking questions, setting questions and asking questions. Among these simple questions, it is the process of forming a poem. While admiring the children's imagination, we should return to a basic fact. The poems written by these children make them puzzled about the world. These problems never depend on discovery. There they are. They meet different children at different times, asking them one by one, even over and over again.
I don't know, can the adult's standard answer satisfy the child?
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