The water is so shallow that I don't care how many fish and flowers are left.
When the riverbed is exposed, autumn will come.
Yesterday, I saw my skinny grandmother with skin on her body.
You can pull for a long time
Oh, she opened a door for me and showed me the scenery one by one.
There are sleeping screws and mottled wooden boats in her body.
I forgot the walking route. She said it was a spiral.
Still in the same place
At dusk, I like to go to the riverbed alone.
Look at things that crack in the wind.
Or, restore things one by one.
Without water, there is no need to imagine its source, whether it is clear or turbid at first.
I like to put my feet into those cracks and let the mud bury me.
I can't pull it out for a long time
Just like taking root.
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There is always a flaw in love in Yu Xiuhua's poems, but it is very touching with sincere language, and this "River Bed" is no exception.
At the beginning of the poem, shallow water indicates the appearance of river bed. At the same time, it gives life to individuals in the river bed, saying that they don't care how many fish and fallen flowers there are.
Among them, fish is a dynamic moving creature, and falling flowers are the image of fatigue after blooming. Together, the two imply not only the passing of the season, but also the skinny grandmother in the next poem, that is, aging and dying.
Grandma in the poem, to a certain extent, is Yu Xiuhua herself, which means that grandma gave everything in her life to the poet himself, sleeping screws, mottled wooden beds, which also contain aging.
In the poem, the sleeping screw may represent the poet's ideal of sleeping, his weakness after tenacious resistance to life, and his mottled wooden bed are his obedience to ordinary life. In a word, these images are flawed, outdated and decadent.
At the same time, these images are also different from those in other poems. In the words of American poetry critic Frieden, they are the projection of the poet's unique talent, the externalization of the poet's character, and have unparalleled poetic quality.
Because of aging, the poet chose to look at the riverbed at dusk. When he looked at the naked things in the riverbed, the poet saw himself.
The poet's next sentence is what she sees, such as something cracked, which is the riverbed, or it can be a symbol of grandma's bony back. But these cracked things have been restored, which shows the poet's indifference and acceptance of cruel life.
After that, the poem seems to have another paragraph, which seems to deliberately produce a sense of isolation, but this is precisely the sublimation of the poem. Let poetry break away from the superficial role of images and become the poet's inner exploration.
Without water, there is no need to imagine the turbidity of its source, which is full of individual life feelings, and those cracks are like inevitable traces in our lives.
When the poet put his foot into the mud, these cracks returned all her past to her, and she realized her encounter with the past. Before that, she had inherited her future self (grandma). So she realized her roots, and those aging and decadence also made the poet a more complete person.
Generally speaking, this poem River Bed is different from Yu Xiuhua's previous poems. There is no incomplete love and unhappy life. Although it is still a poet's inner creation, its philosophy and pattern have been improved, and it also has the freshness and oral beauty of common images. It is a typical Yu Xiuhua poem.
However, the defects are also obvious. Without the big pattern in the eyes of orthodox poets, the overall integrity of poetry will be weak. But as the poet Kitajima said, good poetry can only bring emotion. From this point of view, Riverbed has done it.
Sleeper 2019/1118
Facing the sea, looking for light with black eyes. Reading and Sleeping Poetry Society was founded in October, 20 15 1 16. The mission of the poetry club is to "speak for grassroots poets" and carry forward the "poetic spirit", that is, to pursue the truth, goodness and beauty, artistic innovation and spiritual pleasure of poetry. Now, a collection of poems co-authored by the poet has been published, such as Reading Poems in Spring, Reading Poems and Growing Grass, Yingying Flying and so on. Poetry friends keep writing, poetry clubs keep forging ahead, constantly introduce new ideas, recommend excellent poems, produce high-quality poetry collections, recite excellent works, and recommend poets' works in various forms, so that more people can read excellent works and appreciate poetry culture. We're on the move!