On your chest
I became a singing iris.
The breeze you breathe blows me.
In the tinkling moonlight
Why "iris"? This unusual flower appeared in the garden of revolutionary literature and art in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which was somewhat abrupt and unexpected. Section 16 of the whole poem expresses the contradictory state of mind between the narrator's desire for life as an ordinary person who needs warm care and taking the initiative to assume "historical responsibility" in response to the echo of the times, and the psychological process of how this contradiction is overcome. Section 1-6 is a fresh and euphemistic love poem, and the selected images and artistic conception are fairy tales. Starting from verse 7, the intonation becomes majestic. Pay attention to the changes in the choice of images, the images of lyric subjects and the narrative tone in these two paragraphs, as well as the "sentimental" emotion caused by the juxtaposition of these two emotions and images in the poem, so as to understand the inscription "My sadness is caused by your shining/rising a faint light wheel". Select a few paragraphs to analyze how to use modifiers and sentence patterns such as hypothesis, concession and turning in poetry, and see how these rhetorical ways convey the twists and turns of the narrator.
Iris, who sings, wrote in 198 1, which means that "her personal life is facing a new turning point". There are two backgrounds worthy of attention: "First, written in the author's early marriage; Second, the irreconcilable controversy surrounding her poems has been going on for more than two years. " People interpret completely different meanings of "jumping emotional structure and multi-level spatial structure" in this poem. Some people think it's a love poem, some people think it's a political poem, and some people directly point out that it's incomprehensible and even leads to the "fragmentation" of ideas. This just proves that the poet's "wordlessness" collides with his contradictory and anxious thoughts in the ambiguous structure of this poem.
The first symptom we can find from Shu Ting's poem is a sharp contrast between the two diametrically opposite worlds of "suffering" and "love" in the poem, which dispels the recurring theme of individual heroism under the philosophy of "struggle" in the misty poem. Throughout the poem "Singing Iris", we can clearly find that the poem is composed of two worlds with different emotional atmosphere, different psychological content and different emotional colors from beginning to end. One is the warm and sweet love world created by me and my loved ones, and the other is the world where I am driven by my own mission and suffer for my own ideals and beliefs. There are sixteen verses in the poem, of which only six are about the love world, and the description of "suffering" accounts for ten. The theme of "suffering" is not the first time in Shu Ting's poems. In her "On the Cross of Poetry" written in 1980, the poet quoted and rendered this theme with a strong religious color. In these two poems, the core image of "cross" with strong Christian flavor appeared. Although the "I" in The Singing Iris is carrying a cross and the "I" in The Cross of Poetry is crucified, these awakened "generation" poets are extracted from the voluntary sacrifice of Jesus Christ for mankind, and voluntarily sacrifice themselves for the people, justice and truth.