Zheng Xiaoqiong's poem Huangmaling shows the rich inner world of young women who are far away from their native land and work in cities, and expresses the complex feelings of a generation of young women who are mainly sad when facing the great pressure of big cities. It is a group of good poems with great information, independent feelings, profound thoughts and unique forms.
The first is the uniqueness and profundity of the theme. As the title suggests, the poet's foundation is a village called Juteling, where she spent her childhood.
We know from the poem that the young woman who came to the southern city from eastern Sichuan did not forget her hometown, which made her feel a little warm. Although she has the sadness of youth, she also has the happiness of love; Although I feel lonely, I also have a warm and bright heart.
This group of poems focuses on the relationship between self and the world, and the irritability and confusion that women feel in modern society are very profound and extensive; The poet starts with his own life experience and life experience. Although there are not many specific place names, they are quite expressive and shocking.
The poet's self-sadness, confusion, irritability and nostalgia never stopped. From the subtitle of the poem, we can see the two themes of "ease" and "boredom". In fact, the emotions in the poem are very complicated: there are worries about friends and self; There are both memories of the past and yearning for the future.
It can be said that all kinds of pressures that women living in a noisy city may be subjected to, as well as all kinds of feelings that will be generated under such pressures, are all reflected in the poems. If this poem expresses the lofty theme of the singing era, it is a joke; But it is not all gray and sad. The main content is the pressure of work, family and youth.
Secondly, this group of poems has formed its own characteristics in artistic expression, which shows that the poet not only has poetic thinking, but also has reached a considerable height. Mainly reflected in the following two aspects:
One is to turn subjective psychology into objective image and all intangible things into tangible existence. This is a group of poems about women's psychology and emotion, which embodies women's meticulous emotional process and psychological form. And how do poets express their inner feelings?
It is the most unique pursuit to turn inner feelings into objective images and abstract things into reality. The first self-expression often gets "comfort" from memories, and examines a person's bright and stubborn heart: hope, pain, illness and happiness, as well as love, youth and sadness.
These are abstract and intangible, but the poet said that they are "like an old black branch, waiting for the arrival of spring" and turned into concrete images, which are not only novel but also profound. And further strengthen: "My past has sunk into the blue sky, leaving a starry/looming memory to soothe my lonely and warm heart."
The fourth "Train" is also full of emotions, with the yearning for "hometown": "There is a vast field in my body, a train passes by it, and autumn is in the depths"; There is an observation of "fate": "I know fate, like endless mountains, rivers, plains and/or winding rivers, crawling low behind the train";
There is a feeling of "love": "On the hills far and near, there are jagged trees, scattered with illusory shadows/walking with the train, one, two ... It stands in the gray vilen/I tell those trees that it is my friend or relative".
Affection, fate and homesickness are abstract emotions, but in poetry they are visible and tangible image communities, and the vast space shows the poet's distant thoughts and moving thoughts.
Secondly, the novel metaphor not only makes emotions get unique expression, but also deepens the intensity of ideological expression. Modern poets no longer pay attention to the use of metaphor in the general sense. The metaphor of comparing a woman to a flower really can't reflect the poet's ability to discover things and his high imagination.
Modern poets pay more attention to distant metaphors and metaphors without metaphors, which is a very hidden artistic expression. There is such a poem in the second poem "Walking": "Walk slowly, towards the soul, towards deeper/more love than the ocean, towards a more magnificent heart than the sky, towards more sensitive compassion than the grass".
"Love", "heart" and "compassion" are all related to personal feelings. If you write them directly, they may not have depth or strength. When a poet says "love" is deeper than the ocean, "heart" is grander than the sky and "compassion" is more sensitive than grass, it magnifies and deepens the poet's self.
In artistic expression, poets like to express their feelings in a laid-out way, forming a flowing image form, which is suitable for expressing such a continuous emotion and giving poetry a sense of movement. For example, five "she is tired" in the third "tired".
Others include the substitution of personal pronouns, which not only makes the lyric angle no longer single, but also strengthens the poetic sense of space, so I won't elaborate here.
Zou Jianjun, a famous poetry critic, is a professor at the College of Literature of Huazhong Normal University.