If I were a writer,
I just want my job.
When it entered his mind,
Ordinary, casual, silent;
Running water passes by,
Not worthy of praise,
More disdain for comments;
However, in his life.
When pain or happiness comes,
He vaguely remembers.
It seems that someone has described this scene in words;
At this time, I will shed tears of happiness!
If I were a writer,
I just want my job.
By all friends and learned people at the same time
Lightness-ridicule;
But among children, farmers and stupid women,
When they heard it,
Slowly lower your head,
Deeply impressed,
I can hear "sympathy" surging in their hearts;
At this time, I will shed tears of happiness!
If I were a writer,
I just want my job.
There is no sound in the world,
No one criticized,
Nobody pays attention;
Only myself in the lonely day, or late at night,
Facing the bright moon
A little light rain
Whispering wind,
When chanting in a low voice,
Can reproduce a few unambiguous pictures;
At this time, I will shed tears of happiness!
If I were a writer,
I just want my job.
Don't show light on the earth,
No one heard,
No one recited it,
Only I am sad and happy,
Or face the infinite nature alone,
You can write freely,
When my backlog of ideas falls on paper,
At this time, I will shed tears of happiness!
1922 1 month 18.
Bing Xin, who started from the May 4th New Culture Movement, once wrote a number of influential poems with his unique ideas. Among them, "Stars and Spring Water" had a considerable influence on the "short poem" creation movement in China's new poetry creation. At the same time, Bing Xin has published new poems in some newspapers, which are slightly different in length from short poems. They can better reflect the author's thoughts, feelings and ideal pursuit at that time. Among them, If I were a writer is a masterpiece.
Bing Xin, who has always pursued "indifferent to his ambition", has never regarded his creation as an earth-shattering cause. She only resorted to writing with the truest thoughts and revealed her feelings and ambitions with her works. She told her inner secrets beautifully, which moved and impressed the readers. Reading this poem can also be understood and grasped from this basic point.
The whole poem is based on "If I were a writer, what I would like to ask for". The four sections of the whole poem expound this proposition from different angles. The writer's mission is sacred, and many people solemnly and solemnly demonstrate the historical responsibility that writers should shoulder. However, Bing Xin's poems are different. What she said is not only a serious topic, but also an ideal of life.
Bing Xin's creative goal for herself is to reflect the truth of life first. A writer's creative value does not lie in a flood of applause or complicated arguments. In the author's opinion, works should be as light as water, just like life, so that people don't feel deliberately pretentious or surprised when they first read them. However, when people experience some kind of pain or joy in life, they will think of the works they have read and truly understand the true connotation of the works. At this time, the writer truly verified the true value of creation. This is the requirement of realistic writers for creation, which is ordinary and admirable.
In the second section, the author regards creation as the echo of people's emotions. She gave the yardstick for judging her works to the lower classes. Creation is not to serve "gentlemen", but to express people's feelings. "Children, farmers, silly women" read the works, their feelings were touched and their heartstrings were shaken. At this time, the author is particularly satisfied. Obviously, the author aims to create for ordinary people. She despises "elegant" rich literature and prefers to express her feelings for the lower classes. At the same time, she is never tired of winning people's recognition and echoing their feelings as a sign of success. This is a heartfelt confession of a humanitarian writer who cares about people's sufferings. It is sincere and touching.
The angle of the third quarter has changed. She regards creation as a comfort to her soul. The work is not intended to be quoted.
People pay attention to it, but creation should express their voices. Whether facing the day or the middle of the night, regardless of the wind and rain, what you write can express your inner feelings, such as crying, which is the true confession of the soul. Don't blame the author for being too narrow-minded. She has explained the great significance of creation, and here is only the conversion scale; What's more, the author intends to explain that the lack of emotion is the first thing that is not touched when creating to express true feelings. This is a basic category defined by a lyric writer with sincere feelings. It is true and should not be demanding.
Finally, the author thinks that creation is an inevitable reflection of her thoughts. She doesn't want to get ahead, and she doesn't pursue the sensational effect of her works. However, her works should be felt and written only when something needs to be revealed in her heart. "When my backlog of thoughts falls on paper," she will be happy. The author tells a basic fact of creation. A work is not only a true record of life, but also a true reflection of the creator's thoughts. Only by reflecting the author's thinking about life can creation be more than just a natural record of life. In this sense, what the author said meets the fundamental requirements of creation.
In this early work of Bing Xin's creation, we can read Bing Xin's personality requirements, emotional expression, and more importantly, understand her creative purpose and ideal. Poetry seems to be a manifesto of the poet's creation, which shows the author's progressive and positive attitude towards life from the beginning of creation.
Bing Xin's poetic style is gentle and sincere, giving readers a feeling of whispering and complaining. If I were a writer, this song has no high-spirited tone and is characterized by telling stories. This unique tone of expression is consistent with the author's personality and echoes the content expressed in the poem. The whole poem talks about his creation repeatedly with gentle words: "Ordinary; "Casual", "silent" and so on, people just want to "vaguely remember", "slowly lower their heads and ponder" and so on. This style of expression is indeed the expression of the poet's temperament, and it is also the inevitable interdependence between the form and content of poetry.
Bing Xin's poems have different forms, but they are not in harmony with the external rhythm, but they are all the same. The overall expression of this poem is prose-style, so as to achieve its narrative purpose and enable readers to grasp its internal meaning in the slow writing progress. The expression of this poem has the same shortcomings as the early vernacular poems, so we don't have to be demanding, but the author did deliberately arrange the poem: one or three lines are equivalent, two or four lines are consistent, forming a patchwork; The first and last verses of the four poems are the same and echo each other. This form is characterized by serving the expression of content.