The swift spread its broad wings and circled around the house, singing happily. This is the heart.
It makes the thunder crisp, it sows seeds in the clear sky. If it touches the soil, it will fall to pieces.
Its quick answer is the swallow, which hates intimacy. What is the edge of the tower?
It lives in the deepest cave, and no one can find a place as narrow as it.
The long summer full of light, which slips through the midnight blinds into darkness.
No pair of eyes can catch it. Only when you hear its cry do you know it is coming. A short shot will take it down. This is the heart.
(Translated by Xu Zhimian)
Appreciation
Someone in the poetry circle once divided Charles's poetry into two categories: "social poetry" and "nature poetry" Category: The former is dedicated to calling for secular awakening, while the latter is dedicated to praising the beautiful nature. In fact, in his works, it is difficult to separate the two. "Charle's poems focus on human society everywhere, and express the world everywhere. He writes about human society in the world, and places the world in human society, using scenery and objects to describe things. Writing about people, human society and the natural world are intertwined, and love and violence coexist. "(Jiang Huosheng's translation of "French Poetry")
"Swiss" fully embodies Charles's exquisite way of dealing with tension and conflict. , also embodies Charles's creative style of combining the contradictory reality of human society with natural landscapes. Swift is a kind of seabird that only shows its prowess before a storm. The poet chose swift as the object of description, which itself implies that the theme of the poem is to use the spectacular scenes of nature to sing the praises of those warriors who fight against darkness and evil forces. Or mind. The storm is coming, and the swift spreads its broad wings, hovers around the house, and chirps happily. This is the true voice of its heart. In the sky where swifts are flying, the sound of thunder is even more crisp, as if cheering for the swifts that sow seeds in the clear sky. The swift is an elf in the sky, not a fowl on the land. Its spirit will die if it leaves the free sky. The swift's agile figure shows that it is always a swallow and nothing else. It flies alone in the sky and hates to please humans intimately. What does the edge of the tower mean to it? The swift lives in the deepest caves, and no other bird can live in such a narrow place. The long sunny summer is the midnight when it rests, and it slips into the darkness and disappears without a trace. Its appearance must be a manifestation of its free will. Only by hearing its cheerful chirping can people see its vigorous figure. But a short gun can destroy its beautiful life. Maybe this is the human mind.
Charles's poetry is not limited to surrealist techniques, that is, to the description of dreams. He even goes beyond the exploration of the subconscious. As he himself said, he is "in the material world and the world of staying up late." balancing between the terrible ease of sleep” and “walking vaguely through these different states of life”. Therefore, Charles's poetry works have both surrealism and realism styles, which is what makes him different from other poets of his generation. But the "balance" he achieves in his poems is not a static balance, but the identity or unity of contradictory tensions. In the author's own words, "Like a bow or a harp, some relative forces constitute harmony." ". Charles's brilliance lies not only in his ability to discover and control contradictions, but also in his ability to reveal the center of gravity of a basic contradiction and his ability to bring contradictory things together in the only world of "poetry and reality". He is adept at combining the ephemeral and the eternal, so that his works continuously probe the unknown, opening towards new exits or bottoms. Ultimately, a dialectic of light and darkness governs these monumental poems. This poetics of contest between light and darkness, conflict and violence governs a large part of Charles's poems, of which "Swiss" is an outstanding representative.
"Charles's poetry is based on the difficult balance between transcendent life experience and the ascetic willpower of poetry" (Lambert). His method of "balancing" this realistic power is to choose concise and concise fragmentary forms. People usually call this technique of Charles's "charming concentration method". It is a true embodiment of the poet's original spirit and a perfect embodiment of the artistic charm of his poetry.
(Du Xiulin)