My feet are tightly attached to the ground. ...
I stood on the top of the cliff, above the sky,
But you can't just fly into the blue sky.
I don't know whether to resist or give in,
Lack of courage to die and courage to live.
Close to god but unable to pray,
Want to love, but have no ability to love.
To the sun, I stretch out my hand to the sun,
I saw pale clouds woven into tents. ...
I think I already know the truth,-
But I don't know what words to use.
Zinaida nikolayev gippius (знгипиус, 1869- 1945) is the most famous "silver age" in Russia.
Her poems not only show the floating state of human beings' hesitation, hesitation and struggle between the two poles of life, but also reflect the poetess's "poetic eternal desire" for existence, as well as her arrogance in chewing the sweetness of life in suffering and looking for hope in despair.
Gippius is a very pure religious poet and one of the inheritors of Russian symbolism poetry. Her poems enthusiastically call for God's love, clear and vivid, with relaxed images and almost no obscurity. The images she provides for religious themes are dense and unrestrained. Poets sometimes shout, "God, my God, the sun, where are you?" (August), sometimes intoxicated by "there is no one else in the world at the moment/only God, the sky and me" (instant), and sometimes boasting that "I am like God, eager to know everything about everyone" (passerby), this yearning for perfection even masks her strong local consciousness, which is almost the same feature of Russian literati. /kloc-Since the 20th century, the tradition of Russian lyric poetry has shown pride and hesitation, insufficient philosophical thinking and excessive literary emotion in the cold winter of independence between Greek and Hebrew cultures, two sources of western spirit. The appearance of Kipius aggravated this tendency. She never forgets to put herself under the eyes of God, in the theological system of the trinity of the Father, the Holy Spirit and the Son, which marks the only far end and firmly wraps her inside.
The strong religious background gave birth to passionate poetry, which also highlighted the uniqueness of this poetess in front of her native compatriots-Akhmatova and Zvetayeva, the "two beauties of poetry". Whether it is A's Requiem or C's Dating, its tragicomedy is integrated with euphemistic feminine color, but in many love poems of Kipius, its gender characteristics are always ambiguous. Most of these poems are narrated in a man's tone, and both lovers and loved ones are hazy. 1903' s kiss is perhaps gippius's purest love poem: "anis, when can I put my smile/close to your charming lips?" /Don't be scared away like a timid fish/What about the future-I don't know. "Tender lips, beating heart and" sliding kiss "seem to mark the moment when the poet is closest to love, but this kind of love is limited to this infinite approach-just like the relationship between the poet and God. The hero who is passionate about love keeps encouraging the other person to "look at me, don't be afraid, my eyes are pure", but he is still thinking about "how beautiful the moment of making a promise is". On the one hand, it is an irresistible youthful impulse, on the other hand, it is almost static; The warm breath between words seems to constitute the whole of this long kiss.