Far and near (Gu Cheng)
You,
look at me for a while, and look at the clouds for a while.
I think,
When you look at me, I am far away,
When you look at the clouds, they are very close.
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This poem is very similar to that in photography The zoom lens uses the change of subjective distance between "you", "me" and "cloud" to show the habitual fear of fear between people and the primitive intimacy of people towards nature.
This set of comparisons is not without tendency, it implies "my" desire for human nature to return to nature.
——Gu Cheng
Appreciation 1
Although "Far and Near" has only six short sentences, it contains rich connotations of historical reflection. "Far" and "near" are concepts of physical distance, which exist objectively and have scientific measurement standards. But the psychological distance produced under the influence of emotion is different. "Far" can become "near", and "near" can become "far". The transformation of the psychological distance between "you", "I" and "cloud" in the poem tortuously reflects the barriers and wariness between people, as well as the poet's yearning and pursuit of harmonious and harmonious ideal interpersonal relationships.
The three images of "you", "I" and "cloud" in the poem all have certain symbolic meanings. "You" and "I" both live in objective reality and belong to the same society. "Cloud" symbolizes the beautiful and simple nature. "When you look at me, I am very far away." This means that the earth is far away and the heart is far away. "The world is so close." The poet's dialectical emotional style of "people are far away and the world is close" has become the way of development of people's aesthetic ideals, that is, "from the reality of the object to the reality of the subject, from passive reflection to subjective creation."
This poem seems to come easily, but in fact it is very ingenious. It gives people the impression of being natural but not unnatural, skillful but not pretentious.
Appreciation 2
The poem "Far and Near" is the poet's discovery of the essence of abnormal life. When this poem was first published, it was regarded as a strange and difficult poem. According to the rigid reading methods at that time, people had been accustomed to dull thinking patterns, and this poem was indeed difficult to interpret. Because within sight, the distance between you and me cannot be farther than the distance between you and the clouds. But why does the poet feel that "when you look at me, I am far away, but when you look at the clouds, they are very close"? The reason is that what the poet writes about is an abnormal life and a distorted interpersonal relationship. In this twisted relationship, everything is turned upside down. The relationship between people who should be close to each other has become alienated due to the barrier of the heart, and seems so lonely and inaccessible; because of the alienation of interpersonal relationship, the distance between people and nature has become closer and appears very close. Perhaps, it is precisely because of the closeness between man and nature that it further reveals man's loneliness; perhaps, it is this loneliness that often reminds Gu Cheng of the paradise of dreams. But Gu Cheng should know that in this world full of contradictions, the paradise of dreams does not exist.
Appreciation 3
This poem is a very famous poem in Misty Poetry, and it is a poem that has been recited by many people.
In the poem, Gu Cheng expressed people's philosophical thinking about distance and distance, the relationship between man and nature, and man and man.
This relationship is filled with a dialectical distance, a beauty and the pain of love gained and lost. The lover who is nearby is far away in the sky, but the clouds in the sky are close to the heart. The lover is close but cannot be truly close. Nature is isolated in the distance but close to the lover's heart.
The poem shows a kind of transparent beauty, pure beauty, magical and changing beauty, with a kind of painful speculative sadness.
Gu Cheng said that he wanted to "use the pure silver in his heart to cast a key to open the door of the kingdom of heaven to mankind." But "the horse of time fell tired." Even at his best In his beautiful poems, his sadness and disappointment are also faintly revealed.