From "Broken Chapter" is a poem by Bian Zhilin.
The original text is as follows:
You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, and the people watching the scenery are watching you upstairs. The bright moon decorates your windows, and you decorate other people's dreams.
Appreciation of the work:
The first section of the poem captures a picture of tourists viewing the scenery during the day. Although it says "looking at the scenery", the pen and ink are not used to describe the scenery. It only inadvertently reveals the bridge, the building, and the people watching the scenery. It is like a light ink painting that blurs the looming scenery. The background is left to the reader's imagination, while the focus of the picture falls on the people on the bridge and the people upstairs looking at the scenery.
The time moved to a moonlit night. Both the people on the bridge and the people upstairs returned to their resting places with their own satisfactions and shortcomings. But who would have thought that in this silence, the emotional investment made by people during the day would be rewarded unknowingly.
Extended information:
About the author:
Bian Zhilin was born in Tangjia Town, Haimen, Jiangsu Province in 1910. Her ancestral home is Lishui, Jiangsu Province. She once used the pen name Ji Ling, a poet and poet. Literary critic and translator. He studied in the English Department of Peking University in 1929 and began writing poetry in 1930.
In 1936, he published a collection of poems "Hanyuan Collection" together with Li Guangtian and He Qifang, and was known as the "Three Poets of Hanyuan". During the Anti-Japanese War, he taught in various places and was once a student of Xu Zhimo. He has made great contributions to China’s cultural and educational undertakings.
Main poetry collections include "Sanqiu Collection", "Yumou Collection", "Ten Years of Poems", etc. Most of his early poems expressed his dissatisfaction with reality, the depression of not being able to find a way out, and his emotional depression.
His poetic imagination is subtle, his writing and ink are simple, and he is relatively obscure and difficult to store. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, his poetic style became open and clear. He is recognized as a representative poet of the Crescent School, an important poetry school in the New Culture Movement.
Reference materials:
Baidu Encyclopedia--fragment