Wen Yiduo's "Color"
Life is a worthless piece of white paper,
Since green gave me development,
Red gave me passion,
Yellow taught me loyalty,
Blue taught me nobility,
Pink gave me hope,
< p>Gray and white give me sorrow;If I complete this color picture again,
Black will give me death.
From then on,
I doted on my life,
because I love its colors.
This poem is an exploration of the meaning of life. The poet thinks about the meaning of life in a triple relationship: life and color, color and meaning, life and meaning.
The poet believes that life itself has no meaning, it is "a worthless white paper".
The meaning of life exists in phenomena. It is precisely because of various phenomena of life that life has specific connotations, and the phenomena of life are the various colors in intuition.
From the various colors in life and through people's intuition and intuition, people have various spiritual feelings. Green is a symbol of new life, which gives human beings the concept of development and the desire to pursue development; red is a hot color, which makes people feel energetic and generates various warm emotions; yellow is a very bright color, which represents human beings' The concept of loyalty is like a sincere heart, being frank and selfless, dedicating everything you have; blue is soft and calm, has a noble meaning, and can purify people's soul; pink is delicate and beautiful, and is a bud The color of flowers will become more and more bright and beautiful, so it makes people full of hope; gray and white are dark and light, which can make people feel sad; black makes people feel heavy and desperate, symbolizing the end of life. People do not have any other life content except direct intuition, but the various colors in this direct intuition give people various spiritual enlightenments, so life has its own spiritual connotation. The poet said, "From then on, / I doted on my life, / because I love its colors." In this way, the poet unified his love for life and his emphasis on the spiritual value of life. He does not just love an abstract concept of life, nor does he just regard life phenomena as empty things without spiritual connotation, but feels the spiritual meaning of life through his love for specific life phenomena. He believes that this is the meaning of life.
The poem expresses the poet's love for life and his emphasis on the value of life.
Wen Yiduo specializes in painting in the United States. In this poem, he uses painting theory to explain the meaning of life, which is very novel. But now it seems that the poem is somewhat rational and conceptual, and the emotional color is relatively weak, giving people more rational enlightenment than emotional infection.