The tree is on blotting paper.
It looks like a plant painting—
Memories are growing, round and round,
A series of weddings.
I don't know about abortion and resentment,
More real than women,
They sow seeds effortlessly.
You can feel the wind without feet.
Semi-immersed in history—
Full of wings from another world.
At this point, they are Lida.
Ah, leaves and lovely mother
Who are these Madonna statues mourning Jesus?
The shadow of the turtledove is singing a poem, which doesn't help solve their troubles.
(translated by Zheng Min)
Precautions:
Rita was turned into a swan by Jupiter.
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As the most typical confessional poetess in America, Plath created a lot of poems inspired by reconstructing the trend of women's culture. His early poems imitate Ye Zhi, Auden and Eliot, and tend to be difficult and academic. They deliberately break free from the shackles of logic and grammar, and use simple spoken language and grotesque symbols to frankly integrate personal privacy, inner pain, criminal psychology, suicidal emotions and even sexual impulses into their own poems, and mix art with madness, which is full of expressionism. She is obsessed with exploring the chaos in the relationship between self and the objective world, and almost pushes the tragic self-disclosure of confession poems to the extreme, thinking that self and the world are combined by pain. In her works, she rebelled against the concepts of war, maternal love and love, which have been eulogized and sanctified in the patriarchal culture, and questioned and mocked various sacred idols in literature and history as a challenger. On the basis of her personal experience, she searched for the meaning of herself and life, and described specious wisdom, disordered psychology and hallucinations beyond normal thinking. Her poems are far away from the broader life experience, but dig in the narrow (but also broad) field of self, which is her only way out.
Winter tree was written in June 1962 1 1, after learning that her husband was cheating and took the child away from her. This poem, like Munich Woman Model, is the pinnacle of the poet's "desperate period" before he committed suicide. However, compared with other works, this poem is relatively macro and calm, and there seems to be relatively few emotions of cursing and resentment. Perhaps this is also related to the theme of the poem and the religious images involved in the poem. These images give the work an emotional tone similar to "complaining without anger, mourning without injury" The most intense sentence in the work is probably "I don't know the resentment of abortion,/it's truer than women". At first glance, it looks like a male poet's irresponsible boasting, but since it comes from a woman's mouth, this sentence is even more ironic. Its potential significance is likely to be an imitation of male discourse, showing the female image in male thinking, and letting people know men's personal thoughts more personally. In men's eyes, women only know "abortion" and "resentment", in which "being cheap" means "the behavior of a cheap woman", and some versions are also translated into "debauchery", "* *" or "* *", but "abortion" itself is caused by indulgence (even * *), and men are in the process. Without human disturbance, trees naturally tend to maintain a more leisurely, independent and "real" image, and can "sow/taste the wind easily without feet". Although the religious image is "sad without hurting", it also contains melancholy emotions and "fills the wings of another world." /At this point, they are Lida. Rita, as a typical "insulted and hurt" female image, was tricked into giving birth to the son of Zeus (Jupiter), the head of the male ruler. The poet seems to want to show here that pollination and results between trees are often passive and uninformed. As "Ye Hetian's mother", they may also have the experience of "the virgin mourning for Jesus", so "Turtle dove" is a symbol of love loyalty, and "Turtle dove's shadow" can be understood as a follower of loyal love, which implies that even if women get loyal love, they can't alleviate the pain of giving birth or even losing their children.
In addition, this poem is also commendable in artistic imagination. The poet runs the image of "tree" through the whole article, expressing its inherent characteristics in a brand-new way, which is ingenious, accurate and aesthetic. There are two very good sentences at the beginning. The first song is "The dawn is wet, and the blue-black water is melting blue-black. /Trees on blotting paper/Looks like a plant painting ",first compare the bright sky at dawn to the wet blue ink that is gradually spread out, and then borrow the background of blotting paper (rice paper) to make the trees stand out in the form of pictures, which in itself introduces the scenery into the painting; Moreover, the body of blotting paper is fog, and there are many similarities between them. For example, the fuzziness of fog corresponds to the roughness and wettability of blotting paper, forming a correspondence similar to synaesthesia. Then, "memory is growing, circle after circle,/a series of weddings", after pollination and mating, trees will increase their annual rings and experience a "wedding" every year, so the annual rings become the witness of the "wedding". Because the poet basically uses trees to symbolize women in the whole work, the wedding experience is as clear and profound as the rings in women's memory. The later "semi-immersion history" is based on the fact that trees are rooted in the soil, indicating that their positions are caused by years of growth and cannot be changed like history; As well as the above-mentioned "full of wings from another world", it seems to be used to describe the lush leaves, and it also implies that wings are not born in Lida, but the embodiment of Zeus for temptation, so lush trees will also be coitus. The implied meaning of these associations seems to be mostly about the relationship between women and sex, as well as the harm suffered in sex, which is still closely related to the poet's ideas and positions. Reading this poem is like traveling in an extremely sharp spiritual conflict-short and pithy verses, inspiring metaphors and violent images, jumping syllables corresponding to conflicting emotions, and a huge but undoubtedly restrained pain running and colliding in those poems, so you can touch it clearly and be burned by it-this restraint is natural and does not show traces.
Plath can be said to be the spokesman of * * * and confusion, dreams and disillusionment in the 1960s. She wrote poems until the death of 1963, and always used discordant and sometimes even morbid images to convey the loneliness and general powerlessness of American women after the war.
(Lu Qing)