Feng Zhi was called "the most outstanding lyric poet in China" by Lu Xun. His Sonnets made him famous and created Chinese sonnets. Here, in this short love poem "Snake", the author outlines the picture of seeking love with snakes, expresses the author's unique view on the suffering of lovesickness, and also embodies the poet's unique talent.
This "Snake" has 12 lines, each line has basically the same number of words, the sentence pattern is basically neat, and it has a certain visual aesthetic feeling. In addition, local rhymes are used to create the rhythmic beauty in the lines, in which "Ci" and "Fear" rhyme with U, "Acacia" and "Wu Si" rhyme with I, which reflects the changing local consistency.
The poem begins with a metaphor, "My loneliness is a long snake". The metaphor of surprise makes readers think about why loneliness is a psychological feeling when people have the deepest feelings, while snakes are shocking cold-blooded animals in reality. The author puts two contradictory things together, sets suspense and gives people unlimited imagination. When overlapping words such as "quiet" and "gentle" appear, it explains why the author chooses the image of "snake". In love, the author is stubborn, cautious, or unrequited. In this "passionate lovesickness", "your black silk" seems to be a "dense grassland" where snakes walk. The author pinned Acacia on moss, which is as intriguing as the ancients pinned Acacia on red beans, but the cool color of black silk is the same as that of the moon, and the color of snake is more humorous, which makes this Acacia picture projected in the gloomy and sad hazy beauty for people to enjoy.
In addition, the author uses "my faithful companion" as a metaphor for a long snake, writes about my "intimate" relationship with loneliness, and even expresses that my loneliness is long and doomed, just like my friendship with my lover. It brings me "your dream" and gives me some comfort. This is the poet's boring imagination and masturbation when he is extremely lonely, and it also adds a sad color to poetry. The author compares the footprint of a long snake when it crawls to "the shadow of the moon", which is bright and clean. Li Bai also said that "looking up, I found it was moonlight, and then sinking, I suddenly remembered home". Here, the author's feelings for his loved ones are as bright as moonlight, but they are fleeting illusions. It seems that in the end, the author only longs for the long snake to return with his dream in his mouth, but the author is afraid, unable or unwilling to touch the reality. No matter what the reason, this loneliness is always his own, and it is also a medium to convey his love. The moon shadow here is actually a "snake shadow". Finally, your dream is like "a crimson flower". If the author's world is cold and gloomy, then the lover he misses is a warm flower. The final blush is not only the crowning touch of the poem, but also makes the snake shadow colorful, and it also draws a false happy ending for this lovesickness.
Besides the clever use of reduplication, the combination of rhetoric beauty and color beauty, the artistic conception beauty of poetry is even more commendable. The author found the root of desire in the depths of consciousness, and compared it to a "long snake", so he hoped that the snake could penetrate the dream, regard "your black silk" as a dense grassland, and look forward to reading through "your dream" and your heart, so that the world of "me" would be as gorgeous as a flower. Such a moonlit night, a dream and a lonely snake make readers follow the snake between "emptiness" and "reality". "Imagination" is the author's imagination and "reality" is the author's acacia, but acacia is a kind of immaterial feeling, but the imaginary snake is real. This ingenious idea of "virtual reality and virtual reality" is poetry.
In addition, in details, such as the use of the modal particle "ha" in the fourth line, it is not only like the gentle entrustment of the author, but also contains delicate care for the thinker; It is also like an expectation for heaven or relatives, hoping that the "long snake" can enter the dream and bring back crimson flowers. This subtle and complicated acacia, on the basis of cool colors, has a strong warmth.
Therefore, this love poem Snake, which has no time, place or even characters, seems to imply to readers that one moonlit night, a pair of lovers are separated from each other, or a unrequited lover and his lover's heart are close at hand. She seems to contain her own small universe, waiting for you to fill it with your own experiences, imagine and discover its unique beauty and charm.