The poem A Desperate Dead Water is a symbol of semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China. Grasping the "death" of stagnant water, the poet first wrote the dead silence, then the color, and then the foam, which highlighted the stench and corruption of stagnant water and showed the feelings of "despair" incisively and vividly. Wen Yiduo is an advocate and pioneer of new poetry meter, and Dead Water is his "most satisfactory test" of new poetry meter. He stressed the need for "three beauties": music beauty, painting beauty and architecture beauty.
The whole poem consists of 5 sections and 20 lines, each with 9 words, and the second and fourth lines of each section rhyme, with strong sense of rhythm and full of musical beauty. Many colorful words and images are used in the poem. Colorful words contrast the ugliness of the content and make the face of "stagnant water" even more disgusting. The whole poem consists of 5 sections, 4 lines in each section and 9 words in each line, which has both a sense of neatness in appearance and an inner sense of rhythm. "Dead Water" has made a serious and fruitful exploration for establishing the rhythm and form of new poetry.
The extended material Dead Water is a poem written by Wen Yiduo, a modern poet. Through the multi-angle and multi-level composition of "semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China", the corrupt old society was exposed and satirized, and resentment and deep patriotic feelings towards the ruling environment at that time were expressed. Every verse of this poem rhymes, and it reads with a distinct rhythm and rhymes sonorously; The appearance is square and tidy, forming the beauty of balance and symmetry; Pay attention to the color sense of language and form a hint picture with different beauty and ugliness.
Creation background
In 922, the poet went to study in the United States with the ambition of serving the motherland. In a foreign land, the poet tasted the bitterness of China people being humiliated and discriminated against. 1925, the poet returned home early with strong patriotic feelings and ardent expectations. However, after returning home, the motherland presented to him was a scene of extreme disappointment-warlords fighting and imperialism running rampant, so that the poet's feelings changed from disappointment and pain to extreme anger. The poem "Dead Water" was written under such circumstances.
theme
The poem A Desperate Dead Water is a symbol of semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China. The poet seized the "death" of stagnant water and approached it step by step, showing the feelings of "despair" incisively and vividly. The last verse of the poem shows that he has no illusions about darkness and firmly believes that ugliness cannot produce beauty; But unlike embers, he said angrily, "It is better to abandon ugliness and practice and see what world it has created."
Zhu Ziqing said in the preface of Wen Yiduo's Complete Works: "It is simply to make ugliness full of evil earlier, and there is hope in despair." Hope in despair and patriotic enthusiasm in cold are the themes of this poem.
Writing characteristics
"Dead Water" pays attention to rhetoric, and strives to use rich and delicate words without repetition. For example, the verbs used in the following phrases are by no means the same: "Green becomes emerald", "Rust produces several petals of peach blossom", "Weave a layer of Luo Qi", "Steam out a few clouds", "Ferment into a ditch of green wine" and so on. Writing here, it concludes that the stagnant water is "somewhat vivid".
But the "unusual" here is only a faint color. Then he showed the "sound" of stagnant water. This voice is also very unique, with "laughter"-"Little beads laugh into big beads"; There is also "singing"-"If frogs can't stand loneliness, they will still stop singing." What a terrible silence.
"Dead Water" is also a masterpiece of metrical new poetry, and its style is extremely rigorous. From the appearance, there are nine words in each sentence and four sentences in each section, which are arranged very neatly. From the internal rhythm, each sentence is composed of four sentences. Due to the high harmony of internal rhythm, coupled with the strict double-line rhyme and the acoustic effect of one rhyme per verse, the rhythm of the whole poem is very beautiful.
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Dead water (Wen Yiduo writes poems)-Baidu Encyclopedia