In "Autumn", the poet uses the most essential language to describe farm life. Each line of the poem is a picture, and the three verses form three composite pictures. The combination of images creates a special atmosphere that is both fluid and integrated.
The first picture is "Farmer's Harvest Picture". This is not about a specific farmer, but about general farm activities. I wrote two scenes, one is logging in a valley, and the other is carrying melons and fruits between hedges. The logging in the valley is placed at the beginning of the chapter, and the sound of tinkling floats far away, appealing to hearing; the cool dewdrops fall, appealing to vision and touch. It is truly an out-of-this-world scenery that inspires people to reminisce about those distant memories. Isn’t there a line in the Book of Songs that says, “The trees are clinking and the birds are chirping. They come from the valley and move to the trees.” Where are the words “Gone with the Wind” and “Gone in the Valley”? It often appeared in Fang's early poems, but those were all fictional and used metaphorical and extended meanings, but here they are realistic and have a special charm. The mood and expression accompanying carrying melons and fruits are not specified in the poem, but readers can imagine that it is joyful and smiling. "Perch" was originally used to describe living things. It is now used at the end of this poem to summarize the situation of autumn in farmers' homes. It visualizes nothingness (autumn) and creates a relaxed and quiet atmosphere. Atmosphere.
The second picture is "Returning to Fishing in the Frost Morning". Among them, words such as "fog" and "frost" that express the environmental atmosphere (as well as "dew" in the previous section) often appeared in He Qifang's early poems, conveying a cool, lonely and hazy atmosphere. The scene also includes a series of activities: casting a net, collecting fish, and rocking an oar. These scenes of ordinary activities contain a light, distant, clear and quiet charm in the poet's writing. The word "gently" often appears in He's poems, as if "picking it up at your fingertips", showing the fisherman's leisurely and contented mood. Perhaps in He Qifang's mind in his early years, autumn was really so peaceful and distant.
The third picture is the "Picture of a Girl in Love". This poem begins with weeds, crickets and streams, which is equivalent to what the ancients called "sensing" writing, that is, talking about other things first, feeling from excitement, and entering emotion from the scene. There are few wild grasses and clear streams. This is not a human activity. There must be a continuation later, that is, the girl is in love. The noisy summer of nature has passed, but it has become quieter with the arrival of autumn. In the silence, most people reflect on themselves and listen to the voice of their souls. The shepherdess listened to "the sound of the flute on the back of the cow" for a whole summer, and suddenly she could no longer hear it. A corner of her soul began to stir. It was really "like the roots of trees shaking the soil on a hot summer night" (He Qifang's poem "Summer Night" 》). Writing about love, especially first love, was what He Shi was good at in his early years. This time, he wrote more implicitly and brilliantly. This section only has five lines, but it describes the transition from the exterior scene to the interior scene, and the transition of first love from scratch. The poet chose the specific angle of "the eyes of the shepherdess". Although the eyes are not explicitly written, readers can see the purity and clarity in them. It is the special eyes of a girl in love who seems to be in love but not in love. And comparing these three stanzas, we can see that the first two stanzas mainly write about external scenery and people, while the third stanza really writes deep into the soul, writing subtle feelings, which makes the whole poem converge on the emotional reality. If you don't write like this, it will be difficult to get into the mood and be absorbed in the poem, and the poem will "float".
In short, the poem "Autumn" creates an atmosphere that is both from the world and far away from the world by describing different scenes and pictures. This atmosphere is characterized by quietness, distance, sweetness and softness. It writes about the farm leisure scene after a busy summer, so it has a quiet atmosphere; it writes about a paradise-like life, without the hardship and hatred of the farm family, so it has a distant atmosphere; it writes about the hazy and innocent feelings of boys and girls Love has a sweet atmosphere; like He Qifang's other poems, it uses soft words to write beautiful images, avoiding noisy scenes and clumsy words, so it has a soft atmosphere. Each picture in the poem, as well as the various images in the picture, are all harmonious and unified; therefore, the many characteristics such as tranquility, remoteness, sweetness, softness, etc., on which this atmosphere is formed, are all reached to the extreme. This level of skill is beyond the reach of non-experts.
But He Qifang was a college student in her 20s when she wrote this poem!