In I Have a Love, the love object of the lyric hero is "the stars in the sky". The stars twinkle in the sky and shine on the earth, but they have no feelings. Taking the "stars in the sky" as the object of love itself shows that the stars are not natural phenomena in the eyes of ordinary people, and the description of the stars is not just a purely objective description. This star is a personalized star in the eyes of the poet, with a strong subjective color. The artistic image of "Star" has both natural and emotional attributes.
Some people look up at the starry sky and place their inner homesickness; Some people describe counting the stars in grandma's arms and recalling the innocence of childhood. What Xu Zhimo described is that in the "winter dusk", in the "gray morning" and in the "grass in the wilderness", the stars are crystal clear. This is the poet's aesthetic imitation of natural scenery and the unique imitation of "this one" poet. The poet accepted the western thought of freedom and democracy, but the awakening of this thought only made him more dissatisfied with reality. At that time, the chaotic situation in the country made him feel that he was living a gray life (Pu Feng's words), and the frustration of personal love especially made him suffer. State affairs and family affairs, "the ice of life excites tenderness", turned his poetic heart full of romantic dreams into a "broken soul". However, like many romantics, his ideal has been frustrated many times, but he is still pursuing it. He will never be mediocre, and he will "sing a barbaric, bold and frightening new song" in the gray life. Compared with his poem "Gray Life" at the same time, it describes a gray life, but it is more important than the exposure and resistance of reality. It has a rough style of anger, heaviness and stagnation, and is "barbaric", "bold" and "frightening". In I Have a Love, the stars are crystal clear, creating a light, ethereal, quiet and sacred artistic conception, which is in contrast with the poet's gloomy and dreary life experience, and this contrast is also the point of convergence between the two.
In the glittering and translucent starlight, the poet saw his pursuit of life, and got "bosom", "joy" and "lights on the south needle". This light soothes the depression and depression of real life, and it is more important to praise the ideal than to expose the reality. In this poem, the poet's aesthetic imitation of the stars is actually an aesthetic portrait of his own ideals and Xu Zhimo's own thoughts and feelings. He created an independent artistic realm of pure beauty to compete with real life, and used it as a firm belief to comfort and inspire his pursuit of life. At the end of the poem, the poet sings: "Whether life is illusory or real,/The earth exists or disappears-/There are always stars in the sky." This is an ideal song of life. Here, the poet's pursuit of life blends with the crystal starlight, expressing the poet's persistent love and firm belief.
This poem artistically embodies the characteristics of Xu Zhimo's poems. Formally, it is better to pursue the freedom of change or strive for simplicity and unity. The former is more suitable for expressing exciting ideas. Therefore, the first three sentences of this poem are well-organized and simple in rhythm. When telling the truth, they are changed into complicated and freely changing sentences. But all the work and changes are scattered and orderly, patchwork. This poem is often slightly depressed in the excitement of love, which shows the poet's heart feeling vicissitudes. This ambivalence is particularly prominent in the comparison: for example, in the second, third and fourth seasons, comparing the real life with the stars in the sky visually, tactically and spiritually, the darker the real life, the brighter the stars, the better; The brighter the stars, the darker the reality. Poets are depressed about life and love stars more.
Xu Zhimo is a romantic poet. He believes in "love, beauty and freedom" and holds beautiful ideals for love, life and society, hoping that these three can be realized in the same life. As Liang Shiqiu said: "The simple belief of Zhimo, in other words, is' romantic love' ... This kind of love is always out of reach, always exists in a state of pursuit, and is always regarded as a very sacred and noble thing." The poem "I love the stars in the sky" is such a love. Whether it is understood as love for a specific person or love for the ideal of life, it is a sacred and passionate love.
Original text:
I have a love; ——
I love stars in the sky;
I like their crystals:
There is no such strange god on earth.
On a cold evening in winter,
On a lonely and gloomy morning.
At sea, at the top of the mountain after the storm—
There will always be one, ten thousand stars!
The embrace of grass flowers by the mountain stream,
The joy of the children upstairs,
Traveler's Light and South Needle:—
A shining elf thousands of miles away!
I have a broken soul,
Like a pile of broken crystals,
Scattered among weeds in the wilderness—
Sip your immediate attention.
The ice and tenderness of life,
I have tasted it, and I have endured it;
Sometimes the cricket's Qiu Ge is placed on the steps,
It broke my heart and made me cry.
I showed my honesty,
Give love to the star of tomorrow,
Whether life is illusory or real.
Is the earth inside or outside-
There are always stars in space!