Let's start with a world-famous Indian short poem to stimulate appetite:
Birds in summer,
Come to my window and sing.
Fly away again.
Yellow leaves in autumn,
They have nothing to sing,
Just a sigh,
Fell to the ground.
Selected from Tagore's anthology "It turns out that we love each other deeply", there are several translated versions of this poem, and here is the author's favorite version among many versions, which is gentle and delicate to read and easy to get into the heart. Stray Birds
Tagore's poems express the feeling that time flies. It was summer, and those birds flew to my window to sing for me. In a blink of an eye, it is autumn, and only leaves are left on the ground. Where did the singing bird go?
Second, let's enjoy a poem by Zong Baihua, a modern aesthetic poet in China, entitled "Dawn":
Sunshine,
Wash my early soul.
The moon on the horizon,
Still like my dream last night.
The sun and the moon, the morning and last night, the soul and the remnant dream constitute the bipolar structure framework of the whole poem. The whole poem is quiet and profound, super ethereal, and there is no lack of aesthetic meaning from micro to deep.
Third, another philosophical poem. Russian poet zhdanov's short poem When Birds Die;
When the bird dies,
The bullet on him was crying,
That bullet is like a bird,
His only hope is to fly.
"Bullet" and "bird" have nothing in common, even two opposing images. But the poet revealed a profound philosophy by digging the connection between them: bullets, like birds, long for free flight.
Fourth, the same philosophy, such as Bian's Chapter:
You stand on the bridge and watch the scenery.
The landscape observer is watching you upstairs,
The bright moon decorated your window,
You decorated other people's dreams.
Frequent visitors in textbooks, I don't need to say more here.
Then there are some "two-line poems".
Five, the students' regulars, "a generation" from Gu Cheng:
The night gave me black eyes,
I use it to find the light.
The "dark night" here is a metaphor for the lost years of the "Cultural Revolution" experienced by the "generation", while the "light" is a metaphor for the "generation"' s firm belief in the motherland and the pursuit of truth.
Six, American imagist poet pound's masterpiece "in the subway station":
These faces appeared ghostly in the crowd:
Many petals on a wet black branch.
In the subway, the author saw the common daily scenes in the life of modern urbanites, and suddenly had instant feelings and associations. This short Imagist poem vividly conveys many living experiences of modern people. People in modern living cities walk through the whole urban traffic network like ghosts. In the gray world, the crowded people seem to have no personality and their expressions are numb. Occasionally, the soul with vivid personality is dazzling in the sun.
Seven, the British symbolist poet Eliot's Love Song of Locke;
When dusk spread out and covered the sky,
Like an anesthetized patient on the operating table.
The poet compares "Twilight Sky" to "an anesthetized patient", and the relationship between them is far away, but the poet can mobilize rich imagination, turn visual effects into tactile experiences, and enrich readers' feelings.
Eight, read so many Chinese and foreign classic short poems, let's take a look at this middle school student's work "Gentle Night":
New moon,
But the lips at night
What about the other half?
Kiss the girl of your dreams?
Author: Cui
This is an exercise for a middle school student. The author only uses a vivid image, in which the crescent moon kisses the sleeping person lightly like the night. The soft moonlight highlights the tenderness of the night. The feeling is delicate and real, and the imagination is strange.