Xu zhimo
A touch of rosy clouds flew up the tree.
"Look, an oriole!" Some people say.
Tail up, it doesn't make a sound,
Brilliant vision illuminates the dense-
Like spring, like flame, like enthusiasm,
Waiting for it to sing, we will wait and see,
Afraid to surprise it. But once it spreads its wings,
Break through the dense and become colorful clouds;
It's gone, gone, gone-
Like spring, like flame, like enthusiasm.
(including 1930 February 10 New Moon, Volume 2,No. 12)
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In the first sentence of this poem, the color of oriole is written and the sense of movement is written. In the third sentence, only the oriole erected its tail tip, and with its instantaneous shape, it showed its instantaneous stillness and stillness, vividly writing the expression of the oriole flying quickly and standing quietly in the tree. Four or five sentences gradually changed from reality to emptiness, pouring out the joy, happiness and hope aroused by the oriole.
Before the second quarter, I wrote four sentences, which were the melancholy that joy passed away instantly with the flight of oriole, and changed from the previous sense of fullness to the sense of loss, which made people feel embarrassed. Therefore, the feelings expressed in the whole poem, as the poet said in "Tiger's Head", are "painful and happy."
This poem shows the poet's desire to break through the cage and fly away to live a free and brisk life. The whole poem is ingenious in conception, rigorous in structure, peculiar in image and beautiful in artistic conception, which gives people beautiful enjoyment when reading.
The writing time of the poem "Orioles" is unknown. Originally published in New Moon, Volume 2,No. 12,1February, 930, and owned by Xu Zhimo.
The poem Orioles was first published in New Moon, Volume 2,No. 12,1February, 930, and later included in Tiger Collection.
The poem is very simple: write about an oriole bird flying from nowhere, grazing on a tree and standing there silently, with gorgeous feathers flashing on the branches. "Colorful lights up the dense-/like spring, like flame, like enthusiasm." So we are attracted to wait and see (poet? Free believers? Pantheist? ), carefully gathered under the tree, expecting this beautiful bird to sing. But it "spread its wings" and flew away:
Break through the dense and become colorful clouds;
It's gone, gone, gone-
So he took away the spring, the flame and the enthusiasm.
This poem is endless. If our taste is only satisfied with the appearance of poetry, we will get nothing. This requires us to find the deep structure of this poem, or, as Hegel said, to find its "dark meaning" (Aesthetics, Volume II, 13). In this sense, oriole has actually become a fable. Or, a symbolic poem.
Pointing out the existence of symbolism in Xu Zhimo's poems is helpful for us to understand his poetic art, because the poet laments various "isms". As early as 1922' s Art and Life, he criticized China's new poems for being realistic on the surface, but not realistic at all in his bones. In addition, unnatural naturalism and symbolism have successfully invented meaningless symbols. As a result, although what doctrine has been achieved, no one dares to scream again.