What do you remember? A person's memory is often blurred because of time, with some impurities. The expression "this feeling" also has many meanings. It may be the author's life course in the first half of his life, an unforgettable emotion he experienced, the memory of a relative of the author, even the author's ideals and struggles in the second half of his life, or the infinite regrets left in his heart. Why are there 50 strings in Jinseli for no reason? The image of "Jinse" first implies a fate, and it is this fate that determines the sad mood of the whole poem in one sentence. Generally speaking, the string of a musical instrument is fixed, and "unprovoked" is a kind of heckling, but also a kind of spiritual helplessness. If you change this poem to the following, you can see the ambiguity of this metaphor: Why did things end like this? Life spent half its life for no reason, and ideals were shattered for no reason. And to a great extent, it seems that we can make such a substitution in reading. Many previous articles tend to express a lingering love when acknowledging the obscurity of this poem. I think this is one-sided, that is to say, although this understanding is correct, it is only one aspect, and many one-sidedness can form a three-dimensional. We should broaden our understanding. Here I prefer Baudelaire's point of view, "Use objects to hint at the subtle world inside."
Why do you say that? Because the author does not use the image of the golden harp to refer to music or melody, but expands its deep meaning through the fact that the golden harp has only fifty strings, that is, it is displayed as a metaphor through "no reason". Image and meaning are a deep internal relationship. It is this fatalistic self-questioning that makes the poetry behind "Each has his own flower-like troubles and a period of youth interval" stir up a thousand waves in the readers' hearts. We might as well carefully review the first four poems (interestingly, these four poems all use allusions or legends equivalent to allusions). The phrase "Zhuang Sheng" comes from Zhuangzi's Theory of Everything. Zhuangzi dreamed that he had turned into a butterfly, forgot who he was, and soon woke up to find that he was Zhuang Zhou again, and the butterfly had disappeared. The sentence "Looking at the Emperor" comes from the Records of Thirteen States. Legend has it that (the monarch of Shu State in the late Zhou Dynasty) turned into a cuckoo after his death, crying in the late spring, and the cuckoo's "crying at night, blood staining the vegetation" in Bird Classic. The sentence "sea" comes from natural history. It is said that there is Jiao Ren in the South China Sea, like a fish living in the sea, which is good at accumulating silk. Tears turn into beads when you cry. The phrase "Lantian" comes from legend. It is said that Lantian Baoyu is hidden in the deep mountains. Under the sunlight, its essence is gradually rising, but it is almost invisible. -What's the significance of the author's allusions? Mr. Chen Qizhi has such an explanation in Thousands of Poems and Odes of Past Dynasties, which seems to have been recognized by scholars of past dynasties. Zhuang compared the New Year here to a blurred dream; The story of "looking at the emperor" is used to express sadness; "the legacy of the sea" is a metaphor for the failure of talents; "Jade gives birth to smoke" means that beautiful things are out of reach. Starting from these allusions or legends, the author recalls at least four meanings: the passage of life, the feelings of pain and compassion, the regret of not meeting talents, and the lament that some beautiful things can't be achieved.
But I think it's more than that. If its meaning was limited to this, the poem would not have such infinite charm. It should contain these and go beyond them. We can't stop at the similarity of things' attributes, but should pursue it according to the trace indicated by this metaphor, although there are various possibilities for this pursuit-someone can always put forward a new interpretation of the same poem.
It can sigh with emotion an ideal of life, unfinished business: I used to be addicted to it like Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly, but now it is all gone in retrospect and not realized. I can only entrust it to the crying cuckoo, just like the emperor! It can also be unforgettable love, or indulge in something else. The sighing pearl falls on the vast sea, and the beautiful jade in the mountain shines with elusive light smoke in the sun. We can understand it as the above ideals, career and love, but isn't this the strength and passion of a person's youth? Isn't it just a miserable life experience, a lonely career and a simple and tasteless life?
For example, when I read this poem, I always understood it as sorrow for disillusionment. Later, with the change of life experience and the richness of life experience, I can read new content every time I read it, and even read a confession about an empty life.
And all this is a collision between those images and the moments in my mind at that time. In this process of constantly generating new meanings, I found that the meaning of poetry is constantly extending and expanding. Meaning is constantly transferred to blank through metaphor, thus producing another meaning.