The poem "Discovery" is found in the poetry collection "Dead Water" and is one of the most important representative works of Wen Yiduo's patriotic poems. Judging from the content, it seems that Yu Wenyiduo returned to China not long ago. It is the crystallization of the poet's love and hate. It expresses the poet's disappointment and resentment towards the ruined motherland caused by the warlords' melee after returning to the country.
We know that as early as the May Fourth Movement, Wen Yiduo was a patriot with integrity, kindness, and national pride. While studying in the United States, he suffered racial discrimination and humiliation, which made him increasingly patriotic and angrily returned to China early in the summer of 1925. However, as a loyal son of the motherland, when he came back with a fervent heart of patriotism and the ambition to serve the motherland and dedicate everything he had to the motherland, what he showed was not ecstasy and confidence, but a kind of The deep sorrow that tears apart the liver and lungs, shouts at the sky and seizes the earth. What an astonishing contrast! What are the psychological factors that produce this astonishing contrast? Mr. Zang Kejia analyzed it well:
“The more insults a poet who loves his motherland receives overseas, the deeper his nostalgia and hope for his motherland will be. … But when the hope turns into reality , but he fell into a terrible abyss. The image of the beautiful motherland he imagined in the United States was shattered! One of the great pillars he relied on to support himself collapsed! Quite the opposite. What he got was not warmth, but darkness and desolation. He was in pain, he was sad, he was angry, he sang and cried..."
"In fact, when he was in the United States, why didn't he know that his dear and great motherland was shattered by the warlords? How did he not know about the situation of the motherland, which was plagued by natural and man-made disasters? However, at that time and place The mood made our sincere poet beautify and sanctify his beloved motherland. The poet gained warmth and strength from the image he created. When reality broke his dream, his disappointment and sorrow turned into a touching poem. - "Discovery" ("Wen Yiduo's "Discovery" and "One Sentence")")
It is not difficult to understand this poem after understanding the poet's complex psychological change process after returning to his motherland after a long absence. The connotation of poetry.
This poem has only twelve lines. Although it is short, it has extraordinary ideas and novel and clever ideas, especially "the beginning and the end are unusual and attractive." (He Qifang, "Poetry Appreciation") This is indeed the poet's ingenuity. According to customary thinking and traditional writing methods, the name of this poem "Discovery" should be: first, it describes the poet's deep nostalgia and ardent hope for the motherland in a foreign country, and then it describes what the poet sees, hears and feels when he returns to his homeland. Finally, he confided his disappointment, sadness, and expectations for the motherland that arose from the disappointment and sadness. Written in this way, although it forms a strong contrast between reality and ideals and highlights the poet's patriotism, it is too lacking in novelty and appears bland. Wen Yiduo is an innovative poet. He always strives to avoid mediocrity and generalization in the conception of his poems, and strives to give a sense of unexpected surprise. "Discovery" is an outstanding representative. The poet did not fall into the clichés. He went against the rules and took a unique approach. From the beginning, he went straight in, tearing his liver and lungs, shouting to the sky and the earth: "I'm here, I shouted, bursting with blood and tears,"
'This is not my China, no, no!'"
This cry of blood and tears is like "a rock falls from a high mountain, and you don't know where it is coming from", which gives people an unexpected feeling. The feeling makes people feel as if they have seen with their own eyes the disappointed and confused face of the poet bursting with blood and tears, and heard his painful and desperate words. People not only have to ask, since the poet has returned to the motherland where he has always dreamed, why does he not believe that this is "my China", but why he still painfully repeats "No, no!"? It turns out that when the poet heard the call of the motherland, he beat the time, rode the strong wind, held the torch, and worked tirelessly to come back all the way. However, the motherland in front of him was devastated, and the reality was like a "nightmare" and hanging on a "cliff." The "nightmare" on the Internet is as dark, terrifying, frightening and despairing. How can this be the "flower-like motherland" that "I" imagined abroad? But when I hear the call, I am afraid that the time will be too long, the journey home is too far, the speed is too slow, I wish I could take up my wings and fly home, but in the end it will be "an empty joy". What kind of disappointment and sadness is this! Here, the poet did not use specific details to describe the dark reality of warlords fighting, devastation of life, broken mountains and rivers, and people in dire straits when he set foot on his homeland. Instead, he used two sets of parallel sentences of "I am coming" and a few appropriate sentences. Using metaphors to directly express one's deep love and suffocating disappointment makes the poem more condensed, summarized, larger in capacity, more expressive, more exciting and thought-provoking. It can be said that "without a single word, everything is achieved" Merry". After experiencing confusion, disappointment, grief, and anger, the poet once again shouted "That's not you, that's not my beloved!"
At this point in the poem, people may think that this is the poet's "discovery" . However, if the poet's "discovery" refers to the fall of the motherland and the broken mountains and rivers, then the concept of this poem cannot be said to be novel and unique, and the theme cannot be said to be profound and touching. Because the feeling of national destruction and family destruction had been written by many patriots long before Wen Yiduo, and there were many exquisite works among them.
The most wonderful thing about this poem should be the last four lines of the poem:
I ask the blue sky, forcing the wind from all directions,
I ask, beating the bare chest of the earth with my fist ,
I can’t get any news, so I cry and call you,
vomiting my heart out, - in my heart!
Since what the poet saw after returning home was not "my China" or "my beloved", then the poet's "China" and the poet's "beloved" are also the poet's ideal flowers. Where is the beautiful motherland? He "asked the sky", "forced the wind", "beat the earth", "up to the poor blue sky and down to the underworld" and searched hard, but he still "cannot see anything" and "can't get any news", he cried. He struggled tenaciously in the midst of tremendous grief, persistently searching and pursuing in the midst of profound sorrow and indignation, even to the point of "vomiting his heart out." ah! "My China is in my heart." "The flowery motherland" is treasured in the poet's heart. What a strong and deep patriotic enthusiasm this is! The poet did not sink due to disappointment. On the contrary, a persistent and loyal love for the motherland arose in the disappointment and anger. The ending of "In My Heart" is earth-shattering, unexpected and reasonable. It not only reveals the suspense and points out that this is the real "discovery", but also highlights the poet's deep and eternal love for the motherland. Connected with the poet's loyal and upright life, and the last drop of blood he shed in pursuit of the motherland in his heart, this ending becomes more and more warning, heart-wrenching and shocking. At this point, the image of a great patriot emerges on the page, making people awe-inspiring.
In 1925, Wen Yiduo, with enthusiasm and eagerness, a beautiful longing for the motherland and a sincere enthusiasm to serve the motherland, shouted "I'm here!" and returned to the motherland where he had been away for many years. But I found that the extremely weak place that was trampled by the war was still "my China"! He shouted "No! No!". Repeated emphasis could not express his deep sorrow and deep disappointment.
"What I am seeing is a nightmare. Where is you?" There is a huge difference between imagination and reality. A heavy blow, even "blood and tears" cannot change the "nightmare" in front of me. "Nightmare on the Cliff" pushed him to the point of despair. Roaring in sorrow, "I ask the blue sky, forcing the wind from all directions, I ask, beating the bare chest of the earth with my fist." What's the use of this? After all, "I can't get any news."
"I cried and called you." "I cried and called you." There was no reply. It wasn't until I vomited my heart out that I suddenly discovered it! "My China" and "My Motherland" are in my heart! What else is there to be sad about! What are you still shouting for? No amount of coldness can block enthusiasm, and no amount of darkness can block light. The motherland and China in our hearts cannot be killed by coldness and darkness.
The poem "Discovery" has twelve lines, neat format, full of sincerity and passion, majestic, strong and vivid. From the discovery on the surface to the discovery in the heart, it is realistic in the virtual, echoing from beginning to end, discovering the true meaning, and finally sublimating the whole poem. Wen Yiduo deserves to be called a great patriotic poet who is famous in the literary world.
————Appreciation of "Discovery"