Night is a symbol with multiple symbolic meanings. Poets love the night and have special feelings for it. He also has a keen insight into the night. At night, the poet's emotional activities are very rich. The repeated appearance of night images in Yi Lang's poems is related to the objective social reality, the poet's subjective consciousness and creative thinking. In Yi Lang's poems, the image of "night" has the following three symbolic meanings:
Night image is a visual social background.
In Yi Lang's poems, through the image of "night", we can feel the reality Yi Lang has experienced and the society he knows: cold, dark, bitter, full of confusion and no sense of direction. The rapid development of industrial civilization has brought false prosperity to human society, but behind it is the serious decadence of spiritual civilization. This deterioration is manifested in the communication gap between people, the loss of ethical values, the conflict between material and spirit and so on. Yi Lang's poems reveal the crisis of this era and the poet's anxiety about today's social civilization.
The real world written by the poet is very different from the world full of love and warmth in the poet's heart. Reading Yi Lang's poems, we can feel the conflict between the poet's inner world and modern society. In the poem Square in front of the Station, the poet vividly describes the inner anxiety of rural people who have just arrived in the city. In the poem, he wrote, "Hold on to your luggage and get off the old bus from the countryside to the city/Pick up the lost soul/You must stomp the dirt off your shoes with a thump/You can dissolve into the greater silence of this civilized city." The verbs "pick up" and "stamp off" are used here, which vividly reflect the rural people who come to the city. Then he said, "Everyone is a stranger/.../A noisy station/I can't find another similar face". In cities and rural areas, people feel very cold, everyone is a stranger, and people can't communicate with each other. The relationship between people is like silent objects such as stones and mountains, which cannot communicate with each other. Just like birds and people, although they can make sounds, they still can't understand each other in the end.
Image is a unique image extracted from objective things by the poet's inner activities, and it is the carrier of the poet's subjective feelings. In Yi Lang's poems, "night image" contains the author's unique experience, ideological understanding and aesthetic feeling of nature, society and life. In his poems, "night" not only symbolizes the social background of images, but also shows the poet's special mentality as an intellectual in a new era when the civilization of the times changes to the negative influence in the later period.
The indifferent social reality leads to Yi Lang's psychological loneliness and sadness. Said: "Night, give up. The world is closed. From the evening, it also saves sound. " Night is a warm home. Only at night can the poet feel the objective and real existence of individual life, thus giving the poet a sense of security and reality. The poet's profound experience is personal, unique, contemporary, social and even human. In Yi Lang's poems, under the hint of night images, we are presented with the author's extremely lonely mood and tragic consciousness of human existence, which not only vividly shows the indifferent atmosphere of this era, but also has a lofty and cold aesthetic effect.
Night image is the sustenance of the poet's aesthetic ideal.
Yi Lang not only reveals the special situation of the real society through the image of "night", but also expresses his dissatisfaction with the times. At the same time, he used "night" to set off his aesthetic ideal and awaken the world's sobriety and vigilance in the dark. Therefore, it is no accident that Yi Lang chose the image of "night". Night means a lot to him. The arrival of this special moment never needs reminding, but the emotion it carries is always shining.
In Yi Lang's poems, the night actually expresses the poet's longing for a bright mood. In the tragic society, on the road to dreams, the poet realized the pursuit and expression of the "infinite" ideal with the help of limited nights. In the silent night, the poet doesn't want to hide himself in the dark, but is looking for himself, giving up superficial, illusory and indifferent, looking for deep, true and warm. In his poem "But I am still used to waiting for death at night", he wrote: "Indifference/fate opens and closes like a blade/but I am still used to waiting for death at night/abandoning guilt/distractions and passive poems/rediscovering myself with some words/that is, being kind, saving the world and loving life". Only at night can a poet give up his illusory goals and transcend his own heart.
Yi Lang said in his "blog announcement" that "poets should crouch on the earth to gain spirituality and experience, and mind and language should take care of each other. The stimulation of experience in writing depends more on the poet's imagination and sensitivity to language. Poetry should undertake the discovery and cognition of art in life. Many times, we should observe the sacred world modestly from the simple things around us. I know the danger, but I ignore the pain. " In Yi Lang's poems, the poet always falls into a gentle dreamland with the help of the night in a very tragic state. I enjoy peace and happiness there. In the process of observing the world carefully, I got inspiration, re-determined the value of people and restored human nature.
As a night watchman, a poet should not only ignite himself, but also not self-destruct. Instead, he should provide the world with spiritual strength and the strength of the hometown of writing. In the poem Diary: The Night Watcher, "The night watchman shed his feathers all over/stroked the outline of the night in swaying cigarettes/gave it to people who didn't sleep/lit a fire from the bottom". Here, even if the poet is in pain, what poetry brings to people is not seeking death and emotional catharsis, but pursuing ideals and returning to disillusionment. The ultimate goal of the night image in Yi Lang's poems is to put it in a specific background as a quality and ideal for the poet to observe. Morality in human poverty, tenacity in suffering and truth in illusion have all become the sacred care and spiritual sustenance for the poet to activate his life with heavy worries of the times. The poet's profound social worries and persistent pursuit of lofty personality, as well as the sincere spirit of reflection when the soul is in pain, make contemporary national poetry tend to care for simplicity, emotion and soul. This is not only the value and practical significance of Yi Lang's poems, but also makes his poems have certain appeal and enlightenment.
After the night image entered Yi Lang's poems, it became a golden light reflecting all our life feelings and a portrayal of the lives of poor and noble survivors. In Yi Lang's poems, we can feel the color of night in Yi Lang's soul from the image of night, and Yi Lang's literary world is as dim and heavy as "night". But the main idea of Yi Lang's works gives people the feeling that even in the darkness of "night", with the help of the light emitted by night, the truest soul of human beings can be found.
Night is the poet's home.
As a native poet of Tu nationality, Yi Lang's poems are permeated with anxious pursuit of hometown and destiny from his bones. The melancholy pursuit in Yi Lang's works is not only the nostalgia for his native land, but also the yearning for the spiritual home that sustains his life. It is a symbolic dreamy mountain and river, which arouses his passion for life. Mr. Tan Wuchang, a famous critic, said: "Yi Lang is destined to be the spokesman of Tu poetry. His poems are vivid and vivid, both in life and natural scenery. His poetic language is vivid and vivid, and the intensity of emotion is organically combined with the depth of thought, showing gratifying artistic talent. "
The symbol of human society entering the era of science and technology is the transition from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, which has had a great impact on China's traditional civilization, especially on ethnic minorities. The occupation of thousands of years of traditional culture by modern civilization has brought unprecedented contradictions and conflicts, especially for ethnic minorities. The Tu people in China have a long history and their own cultural traditions and customs, which are quite different from the landscape of modern civilization. Especially in the era of globalization, the collision between modern civilization and traditional civilization has caused the contradiction of Tu people's survival. Yi Lang is worthy of being the spokesman of Tu Shi, writing about the present and future development of the nation. In his works, the poet showed us a beautiful picture of the rural customs of the Tu nationality. When we tasted the photos of the life of the Tu nationality, we thought that the Tu nationality homeland was not as beautiful as the imagined "Xanadu", but it was inevitably polluted by industrial civilization, leaving us with no sadness in time. In I want to go back to them, I expressed an extreme homesickness. In the process of modern transformation, all the historical memories of hometown have become distant memories, and poets can only return there in imagination, and there are many scars behind their deep attachment.
In the running between the countryside and the city, in the conflict between reality and ideal, and in the constant pursuit of soul and beauty, the poet built his own spiritual home, thus expounding the value of poetic spirit and the dignity of human soul. In Yi Lang's poems, the poet used the night to express his identity with his own nation, his own blood, his yearning and love for his hometown, and presented the primary colors of his own nation's life, living conditions, dreams and hopes. In the poem "One Man's Village": "Tonight, I collected rows of tears/a cigarette burning till tomorrow/we are in the same word/we came to this inner motherland/she belongs to the Tu people/people who harvest in autumn/the hymns of labor/and tonight/on a pine table/in the middle of the manuscript/she just.
Yi Lang's poetry can be said to be a representative, representing the reflection and criticism of the negative influence of industrial civilization, and representing the poet's deep attachment to that homeland and deep-rooted national psychology. These are integrated into Yi Lang's poems, casting the poet's special way of thinking, typical cultural psychology and national emotion. His poetry creation has a distinct national color. He pursued the natural home and spiritual home for national survival with tenacious perseverance, and strived to create a brilliant literary sky.
The mystery of night in Yi Lang's works mostly comes from the expression of life feelings, and the poet's recognition of the beauty of night shows that his creative consciousness is highly mature. Lu Shuyuan said in Psychology of Literature: "Image analysis is an important method to interpret and appreciate poetry. Paying attention to the aesthetic psychological feelings of images and scenes is the strength of China's poems. " The successful creation of the image of "night" in Yi Lang's poems makes his poems present different characteristics and enriches the content of contemporary slaughter poems. The Night written by the poet has strong social critical significance and profound artistic aesthetic value, which makes this kind of poetry have high literary value and artistic taste.
(Source: Qinghai Daily)