Writing art
The remarkable feature of this poem is its short length and ingenious conception. Land is a vast image, and poets choose it as the object to express their feelings and pour out their feelings. Its realm is extremely broad and its images are extremely rich. The poet's feelings are multi-angle and multi-level, and the poet's imagination and poetic thinking are infinitely free and broad. However, he did not lengthen the length of the poem, so as not to let the feelings of the poem spread, but only expressed the poet's broad and deep love for the land.
Writing method
The poet writes not from the real place, but from the imaginary place. He imagines himself as a "bird" and develops the artistic realm of the whole poem through the relationship between the bird and the land, making the whole structure of the whole poem appear ingenious and natural, which makes people unaware. Poetry begins with "if", which is novel, unique and convenient, and pushes the poetic realm to the virtual artistic realm. Of course, the bird in the poem. Different from those in ancient poems (such as cuckoo and crane pigeon), "singing at the top of one's lungs" is an eye-catching, exciting and thought-provoking poem, and it is also a peculiar highlight of deepening the poet's feelings for the land in the whole poem. This was the tragic atmosphere at that time (the early days of the Anti-Japanese War), the poet's special personality (Ai Qing called himself a "sad poet") and the poet's special expression needs. * * * The aesthetic image produced by the same action on the bird image greatly enhances and strengthens the aesthetic expression of the image-from which we can not only feel the breath of the times, the poet's personality and temperament, but also feel the poet's love for the land is so persistent, loyal and tenacious.
Singing object
From the perspective of sentence structure, parallelism is used; In terms of methods, he used a close-up shot similar to a movie montage, and introduced to us the objects he wanted to sing in turn: land, river, wind and dawn. These are broad natural or cosmic images, but the poet chose these typical images, which are extremely concise and vivid, but they can make us have rich imagination and association, causing deep meditation. It is worth pointing out that before "land, river, wind, dawn", the poet deliberately added adjectives or modifiers with emotional colors and turned them into symbolic and suggestive pictures, which not only hinted at the troubled fate of the motherland, but also hinted at the indomitable people and the hope that the earth was still growing, and hinted that the poet should make every effort to sing for them with fate. Even if you die, you should bury yourself in this land and enrich it with your own body. From the perspective of conception, the poet still sticks to the virtual image of "bird" ("even feathers rot in the land"), which makes a strong contrast between life and death, and shows the bird's persistent and sincere love for the land in the comparison, thus artistically shaping the image of a singer who is loyal to the land.
This poem is characterized by ingenious transformation and opens up a new poetic realm. It stands to reason that it is difficult to express poetry after it reaches its climax. However, the poet skillfully broke a stroke, separated a line, made the necessary pause and pause, began to skillfully transform, and wrote the ending of two lines with outstanding images and further sublimation of feelings. After reading it, it was thrilling, unforgettable and chanting.
Summarize and grasp
First of all,
The lyric perspective has been changed. The first section of the poem imagines from an imaginary angle, that is, from the perspective of birds, expressing birds' loyalty and love for the land and making the image implicit; The second section is changed to a real perspective, that is, from the poet's own perspective, he wrote his "tearful eyes" and poured out his "deep" love for the land, which is a direct expression of his heart. In this way, the combination and correspondence between the virtual and the real constitutes the internal and complete artistic space of the whole poem; The correlation and contrast between the result and the reason constitute the internal logical structure that supports the whole poem.
Second,
The writing technique has been changed. The previous section used comparison, which is the realm of imagination; The latter paragraph uses fu, which is a realistic expression of the mind. The whole poem changed from the montage-like picture hint in front to the direct guidance of the poet behind, and ended with strong emotional expression, thus introducing the reader's attention into the rich emotional atmosphere and feeling the poet's loyalty and love for the land again.
Sun and land are two concepts that can best summarize the characteristics of Ai Qing's poems. Poets' eager pursuit of light, ideals and a better life is often expressed through the image of the sun. Ai Qing seems to be a Kuafu, pursuing sunshine, light and ideals until his death. On the other hand, the land connected with the poet's blood is also his lifelong attachment. He once said: "This infinitely vast country and infinitely rich rural life-old or new-need its important space in new poetry." (Preface to Poetry for the Countryside) Ai Qing pays attention to the land, and I love this land. It was written in 1938 after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, which is the representative work of Ai Qing's unique land complex. At the critical juncture of the country's decline and national peril, Ai Qing extended a childlike innocence to the motherland and expressed his patriotism, which was ups and downs and promoted layer by layer.