Poetry appreciation I
Shu Ting's poems are novel in conception and full of lyrical colors. Exquisite language and distinctive personal style. To the Oak Tree is a beautiful and profound lyric poem of hers. The poet ingeniously chose the two central images of "kapok" and "oak tree", which contained delicate, euphemistic and profound feelings in the novel and vivid images. The love it expresses is not only pure and hot, but also noble and great. It is like an old and fresh song, which touches people's heartstrings.
The poet takes the oak tree as the object, expressing the passion, sincerity and firmness of love. The oak tree in the poem is not a concrete object, but an ideal lover symbol of the poet. Therefore, this poem, to some extent, does not simply pour out one's passionate love, but expresses one's ideals and beliefs about love. It is expressed through a kind and concrete image, which is quite meaningful to the ancients.
First of all, the oak tree is tall, charming, deep and rich in connotation-"high branches" and "shade" are one meaning, and the method of setting off is adopted here. Poets don't want the love of vassals, nor do they want to be a smug flower attached to the high branches of oak trees. Poets don't want to give love, to be a bird that sings for the shade all day, to be a fountain of wishful thinking, and to be a mountain that blindly supports the oak tree. The poet doesn't want to lose himself in such love. Love needs to be based on equality of personality, independence of personality, mutual respect and admiration, and mutual affinity.
What the poet wants is the kind of love that two people stand shoulder to shoulder and share weal and woe. The poet compares himself to a kapok, a kapok standing side by side with an oak tree. The roots and leaves of these two trees are closely connected. The poet's persistence in love is no less than the ancients' "I would like to be a lovebird in the sky, and I would like to live together on the ground, with two branches in one tree." . Oak and kapok stand quietly and firmly. When the wind blows, swaying branches and leaves greet each other and they are connected. That is the language of their world, their inner harmony and silent understanding.
Two people are guarding it like this, two determined trees, two fresh lives and two noble hearts. A brave guard, every branch is always ready to stop attacks from the outside world and defend the world of two people; One is a passionate life, with red flowers, willing to cheer for him and light up his future when he is struggling. They share the threat of difficulties and the test of setbacks; Similarly, they enjoy the splendor of life and the magnificence of nature.
What poets want is such great love, the same greatness and nobility, the same thoughts and soul, rooted in the same foundation, sharing weal and woe, and being dependent on each other in cold and warm.
Poetry expresses the poet's ideal view of love with novel and magnificent images and appropriate metaphors. The metaphor and peculiar image combination in the poem represented the new form of poetry at that time, which was of groundbreaking significance. In addition, although novel images are used in poetry, the language of poetry is not obscure, but colloquial, with fresh aura and subtle hints in novelty, giving people unlimited imagination.
Poetry appreciation ii
Shu Ting, a poetess, is one of the three giants in the field of obscure poetry, which keeps pace with Beidao and Gu Cheng. Her poems, not limited to Alan Yu, maintain a detached and distinct personality, thus smearing a dazzling track in the literary sky. Her poems, from images to vocabulary, are full of southern flavor and feminine flavor. Just like this song "To the Oak Tree", how vivid and touching the language and images are! And the kind of love she sang, from humble to pure and beautiful, can be described as an ideal realm with strong appeal, which makes countless young people yearn for and look forward to.
Shu Ting was once a world-famous poet, and To the Oak was once a poem that spread all over the world. Twenty years ago, there were different comments. Although the misty poetry school has long fallen into a cold silence, Shu Ting and To the Oak are still worth talking about.
To the Oak Tree is a love poem with no vague meaning. The poet uses meticulous and fluent thinking logic to show bright and beautiful images. In the 80-year history of China's new poetry, perhaps there is no other love poem better than it. What's more commendable is that it was written in March 1977, and it was the earliest love poem after the Cultural Revolution.
Love is an indispensable topic in social life, and it is also the most widely described theme in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign poems. Shu Ting, an outstanding representative of misty poetry school, deeply felt the loss of lofty spirit in real life, praised the great love of sages, and put forward a high standard of love for people with To Oak. The love image she created in this poem clearly shows a love view of independence, equality, interdependence and mutual support, understanding each other's existence significance and cherishing their own survival value.
The lyric way of artistic expression of inner monologue
In artistic expression, the poem adopts the lyrical way of inner monologue, which is convenient for expressing the poet's inner world frankly and openly. At the same time, the image is constructed as a whole symbol (the whole poem correspondingly symbolizes the independent personality and sincere love of both lovers with the whole image of oak and kapok), which makes philosophical thoughts and ideas germinate and poetic in a kind of intimate and sensible image, so this poem with rational temperament makes people feel that there is no preaching.
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