Reflections on Conch —— To Nadaleda Jimé nez [Spain] lorca

They brought me a conch.

It eulogizes in it.

A chart.

my heart

Full of water waves,

Dark as a shadow, bright as silver,

This little fish swims a lot.

They brought me a conch.

(translated by Dai Wangshu)

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Garcí a lorca has his own unique poetics. He believes that one of the basic values of art lies in communication. Therefore, he not only attaches importance to the creation of works, but also attaches importance to the dissemination of works; We should not only attach importance to the aesthetic ideas of the works, but also attach importance to the social functions of the works. In poetry communication, he not only attaches importance to publishing, but also attaches importance to lectures and recitations. But the spread of lorca has nothing to do with traditional realistic aesthetics. As early as in the preface of Impression and Landscape, he wrote: "Poetry exists in everything, whether beautiful or ugly, or contradictory; The problem is to be good at discovering it and stirring the lake deep in the soul. "

Conch is one of the representative works of lorca's classic folk songs. The short and pithy poetic structure and fresh and fluent language style are the moving features of this poem. The beginning of the poem is an ordinary vernacular without any literary grace, but this extremely ordinary poem has laid the tone of the whole poem. The people's language and straightforward feelings show that lorca's main purpose in writing this poem is to communicate with the public a simple and beautiful scene: they brought me a conch, and I put it in my ear to listen to the sound of the sea. The interior of the conch eulogizes the grandeur and vastness of the sea, and depicts a beautiful ocean scene in my ear. My heart is like the high tide of the sea, excited and restless. Just like the sea in the sun, it is as deep as the shadow of the night, shining with dazzling gold and silver, and there are many beautiful small fish swimming and playing in my heart. They brought me a conch and a sea world.

For lorca, poetry is mysterious and simple. He said, "Poetry is something that walks in the street. It is moving. It passed us. Everything has a mystery, and poetry is the mystery of everything. It will pass by a person, it will look at a woman, it will guess a runaway dog, and everything in the world has poems. " For lorca, innovation will not be repeated, because "the same spirit will not be repeated, just like the shape of the sea in a storm". This is the fundamental reason why lorca's works are different. In terms of poetic language, he believes that "inspiration produces images, not words", while he "dedicates love to words, not sounds".

In lorca's works, this preference for semantics is related to the polysemy of poetry vocabulary. Lorca's language is not conceptual, but concrete and colorful. His metaphor is personified and often takes the form of synaesthesia. He believes: "A poet should be a prophet of the five senses, and the order should be vision, touch, hearing, smell and taste." In his poetic images, these five feelings are often linked together, which gives people a very novel feeling. The poem Conch uses the technique of synaesthesia. The poet began to write when he saw the conch, and then communicated through vision and hearing, so the poet not only heard the conch's eulogy to the sea, but also saw the magnificent landscape of the sea. "My Heart/Rising Water Wave" is associated with tactile experience. In such a short poem, the poet tries to make all the sensory organs active and participate in the image of the poem, thus making the feelings of the poem delicate and true.

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