-Silent journey, photos sent by dusk lights.
People in the sun
No tears
People in the sun
Won't cry
People in the sun
Just sit quietly
Supported by shadows
People in the sun go far away.
land
Climb the peak
Sunbathers just take tents with them.
Don't move.
Didn't speak.
In our eyes, the word "sunshine" always seems to be positive. In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of happiness, medicine and music. He brought light and happiness to people. The sun is a symbol of warmth, light, life and health. However, it is not difficult to feel a melancholy atmosphere after reading People in the Sun, as if watching a colorful but stagnant oil painting (such as People in the Sun).
Many sentences in the whole poem begin with "people in the sun" and are independent. It seems that the whole poem describes "people in the sun" from the perspective of onlookers. However, this is not to look on coldly. We might as well divide the whole poem into several paragraphs with the symbol of "People in the Sun".
People in the sun
No tears
People in the sun
Won't cry
For a "standard bystander", the person in the sun will never cry, and he will not have tears, because he is always in the sun. Who doesn't like warm and bright sunshine? Drive away the cold and haze, and bring vitality to everything. Surely the people in it will not be sad.
People in the sun
Just sit quietly
Supported by shadows
This passage is from the poet's point of view. The reason why people in the sun don't fall down is only because of the support of shadows. How does the shadow lying flat on the ground support people? This is not to say that people are really supported by shadows, but because there is sunshine, people in the sun will not fall down because of shadows.
People in the sun go far away.
land
Climb the peak
Here, a technique similar to lens switching is adopted. The so-called rising to a high place, one may be that the sky and the sun are falling relative to it, and the other may be that people are moving lower relative to the ground. As for which possibility, let's look at the following first:
Sunbathers just take tents with them.
Don't move.
Didn't speak.
As the end of the whole poem, this passage can be said to have a very obscure meaning. First, the man in the sun disappeared into the sight of others with the tent, leaving us endless room for daydreaming. Where did he go? Why did you leave? What does "tent" mean? We don't know anything. We only know that he "left". However, the next two sentences of "not moving" and "not talking" are even more puzzling. Since he's gone, why not move? Personally, I think it may be a word game played by the author with us. When the sun goes down, "people in the sun" are naturally no longer people in the sun. Maybe he followed the tent. The man in the sun walked far away. In fact, he didn't move or talk, but no one noticed him. From this perspective, The Man in the Sun is not a real person, but a symbol with a halo. Who cares when that person is no longer in the sun?
In the last two sections, the author does not say "the sun goes down" directly, but uses the opposite and obscure expression of "the earth rises to a high place" to explain that "the man in the sun" did not move at first, but said that he first "went to a far place" and the two phases were reversed. The first paragraph is a bystander's perspective, and the second paragraph is mixed with the poet's own perspective. This inversion technique is revealed like a password from time to time in Gu Cheng's poems. The land hangs slowly "—— I love the world/she melts like frost/melts into my blood, and she/flows affectionately from the ocean to the mountains, making her eyes turn blue/red in the morning ——" I love the world ") The original theme is hidden in a few lines.
The man in the sun was written by Gu Cheng 1987 in London. At this time, he is like a rising star in Ran Ran in Ran Ran. His poetic skills are more perfect, and at the same time, he has ushered in the change of his work style. His experience of traveling in Europe, cultural exchanges and giving lectures made him famous far and wide. A year later, the successful Gu Cheng chose seclusion. He stayed away from the praise of the crowd and the noise of the city. Perhaps Gu Cheng is no longer the "fairy tale poet" who is far away from the world, carefree and living in utopia, but I am afraid that few people can really understand him.
After all, what's wrong with sunshine? What the author wants to express is people's symbolization of "people in the sun". No matter how beautiful the sun is, the people under it are just people. It is impossible to cry without tears. However, once symbolized and abstracted, human nature will disappear and become like a temple idol. Idols can neither speak nor reach out to help those in need. It can't bring anything to those who pray for it, but it symbolizes a kind of faith and belief. Therefore, some people will bow down before the gods. People in the sun are "supported by shadows" precisely because they are real people. Only real people leave shadows in the sun. People will be sad, cry, have a weak side, and fall into an involuntary predicament. Even if we are in the sun, these shadows are also inevitable. In broad daylight, people who have disappeared without a trace will be surprised as ghosts and gods, while those who are capable, have achieved something, and seem to have a perfect life will be taken for granted as "people under the sun." We turn a blind eye to the shadows under their aura and behind them, and regard them as objects of admiration, goals of progress, directions of struggle, perfect saints and responsive gods. However, people in the sun are not equal to the sun itself after all.