Two poems in 24
Text discussion
Golden Flower
1. Overall grasp of this poem
Prose poems make us feel the deep love between mother and child, the love between mother and child, such intimacy and affection. Why is the child so happy, so innocent, so lively and so cute? Because he is bathed in maternal love. Love is communicative. The child is receiving mother's love, but also thinking about how to repay mother's love? He thinks of turning into a golden flower so that his mother can smell the fragrance of the flowers and let her read books without hurting her eyes. From the child's love for the mother, we can think of the mother's love for the child.
2. Research on Problems
1. Why does the author imagine the child as a golden flower?
We in China like to use flowers as a metaphor for children, and so does India. Tagore imagined children as a golden flower, the most beautiful flower on the holy tree, and praised the cuteness of children. The golden color reflects the glory of maternal love. People love flowers, and flowers benefit people. They can symbolize children's wish to repay mother's love. Tagore's imagination is truly novel and wonderful.
2. Why does the child want to turn into a golden flower and hide it from her mother again and again?
Look at what the child has done for his mother, and you can understand his wish. The child always wants to do something for his mother and become a golden flower. He can watch his mother work, let his mother smell the fragrance of flowers, and project it on the place where his mother reads. The child understands that the dedication of maternal love is selfless, and the return of maternal love should also be selfless. He does not seek praise from his mother, but wants her to live a warmer life. So he was just acting coquettishly, hiding it from his mother.
3. Why did my mother say "you bad boy" when we met?
As mentioned above, the mother shouted: "My child, where are you?" You can imagine how anxious the mother was when her child was missing. This anxiety must have increased with time. Once she saw her child, , surprised and happy, and naturally blamed the child.
Paper Boat to Mother
1. Overall Perception
This is the affectionate call of a wanderer far away from home to his mother who misses him day and night. It is dedicated to his dear mother. A soulful ode to.
The waves were surging, the wind was blowing, and the cruise ship was sailing toward a strange country amidst the bumps. We have traveled thousands of miles across the ocean, how long will it take before we can return to our mother's arms? Although the beautiful and majestic Pacific Ocean is outside the ship, the lonely and melancholy poet has no intention of appreciating the wonders in front of him, but with tears in his eyes, I folded the paper boats attentively and persistently, and then threw them into the sea one by one. Although the wind was high and the waves were rough, and the paper boats were wet by the waves and stuck to the bow, she was not discouraged and kept folding them every day, hoping that one of them would drift to the mother she missed day and night.
There are many poems expressing maternal love in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, but this poem has its own uniqueness. With the purity and innocence of a child, the poet found a medium from the children's game world - a paper boat - to express his infinite love for his mother, and used this to express his feelings. The first and second stanzas of the poem are about folding paper boats and throwing paper boats: "I never abandon a piece of paper, / always keep it - keep it." This shows that the poet did not just go on a long trip this time. This action reflects the long-standing longing and affection for his mother; "folded into small boats" indicates the large number of folded paper boats and the deep longing for his mother; the poet folded the paper boats After being "thrown from the boat into the sea", "some were blown into the windows of the boat by the wind,/some were wetted by the waves and stuck to the bow of the boat", he wrote a carefully folded paper boat throwing The heartbreaking result of the moment after entering the sea, it hints to the reader that it is actually impossible for the paper boat to float across the sea to his mother, giving people a pessimistic and desperate mood; but the poet still "folds it every day without losing heart, always hoping that one day It can only flow to where I want it to go." The place it wants to go to is my mother! As the saying goes, "Sincerity causes gold and stone to open." Can the poet's wish be realized? In fact, this question is no longer The most important thing is that this is the only way for the poet to express his longing. Only in this way can the poet relieve the sadness in his heart. Only in this way can he most fully express the unforgettable feeling of longing. In the third stanza of the poem, the poet misses her so much that she expands her imagination: "Mother, if you see a small white boat in your dream, / don't be surprised that it enters the dream for no reason." The paper boat cannot drift to the mother's side, so it enters the mother's side. In a dream! "This is what your beloved daughter folded with tears, / thousands of rivers and mountains, asking it to carry her love and sorrow back." Point out the theme, the emotion reaches the strongest state, which makes people feel endlessly sad. . This is the most wonderful line in the whole poem.
In this poem, the poet takes the paper boat as the title, expresses his emotions, and gives the paper boat a special meaning. The paper boat symbolizes the loneliness of being wandering and helpless, the heart that misses the mother and the motherland, and the pure and beautiful wishes of the poet.
2. Research on the Problems
1. Why are you crying and why are you sad?
If a person has the emotional experience of leaving his mother for the first time and moving away from home, he can I deeply understand the feeling of this little poem. Being around my mother all the time, I was used to it, and my feelings were dulled. Once I go far away, I am separated from my mother by thousands of rivers and mountains, and the feeling of missing my mother is the most uncomfortable. Having such an experience, one can understand her "sadness" and understand her tears.
2. What are the benefits of using paper boats to express emotions?
Poetry always relies on some kind of image. The author was in a boat in the Pacific Ocean and could not communicate with his mother, so he could only imagine paper boats. Able to carry her love and sorrow back home, paper boats are childlike and suitable for expressing children's mentality.
Exercise instructions
1. Read these two poems carefully until you can recite them. Then there will be a recitation competition to determine the winner.
Reading aloud should be guided repeatedly and carefully, such as "Where have you been, you bad boy", "I won't tell you, mother". It is not easy to read such a dialogue well and requires Teach it over and over again, teach it like a song.
2. Understand the thoughts and feelings contained in the following poems.
1. "Where have you been, you bad boy?"
"I won't tell you, Mom." This is what you and I had to say at that time.
2. Mother, if you see a small white boat in your dream,
Don’t be surprised that it entered the dream for no reason.
This is what your beloved daughter put together with tears in her eyes, across thousands of rivers and mountains
Please ask him to carry her love and sorrow back home.
This question requires students to experience their thoughts and feelings based on the more implicit verses in the two poems. Guiding problem solving should mobilize students' life experience and emotional experience, and guide students to deeply understand the image and artistic conception, emotion and meaning.
1. The mother had been looking for the child for a long time, and was very anxious and worried. When she saw the child, she was surprised and happy, and blamed the child for leaving without saying a word, which made the mother extremely anxious.
As for "I", I started acting coquettishly. I was happy that I could do something good for my mother. I also wanted to keep it a secret from my mother and let her be confused.
2. These lines of poems express the daughter's deep love for her mother, the pain and sorrow of missing her mother, calling her mother in the boat in the Pacific Ocean, and hoping that the mother will think of her daughter's mood after leaving home.
Three△Both these two poems use a specific image to express their love for their mother. Please use this technique to write a paragraph or a poem to express your love for your parents.
In order for students to clarify the requirements for this pen practice, they must use images to express emotions. What kind of image should be used? Here we need to pay attention to the imagination in the two poems. Tagore imagined "I turned into a golden flower", Bing Xin imagined paper boats sailing across the ocean to send affection, and they both imagined a way to express their love for their mother. We can also imagine another way to express our love for our parents.
After four classes, I read Bing Xin's "Stars" and "Spring Water" and recited the poems expressing maternal love.
You can read "Introduction to Literary Classics" first, and then look for books to read.
Teaching Suggestions
1. Guide students to read "The Golden Flower" to themselves and capture their little wishes
Questions that inspire thinking can be designed as: < /p>
——Why do "I" want to become a golden flower? For fun? To hide and seek with my mother? To fulfill my little wish and bring some happiness to my mother?
——"Watching you work", "You will smell the fragrance of this flower", "Casting my little shadow on the pages of your book, right where you are reading", what are they all for?
p>2. Guide students to read "The Golden Flower" by themselves, focusing on the implicit verse at the end
You can discuss: Why does the mother blame the child instead? And scold "you bad boy"? What is it? Tone? Why doesn’t the child tell his mother that he has done a lot of good things?
3. Guide students to read "Paper Boat" by themselves, focusing on exploring "tears" and "sadness"
Mother to It is easy to understand that a daughter loves her mother, but "tears" and "sadness" are difficult. Once you understand it, you can understand the feeling of longing and the pain of longing. From this, we can understand why the poet wanted to put a paper boat in the Pacific Ocean, "asking him to carry her love and sorrow back".
4. Teaching design
(1) Literacy and writing
Hide (nì) to hide: not to be known.
Pray (dǎo) to pray to God for blessing.
Yan (yǎn)
(2) "Golden Flower"
1. Read aloud.
2. Talk about the overall feeling.
3. Content discussion.
(1) Why did the author imagine the child to be a golden flower?
(2) Why did the child want to become a golden flower? Why did he keep it a secret from his mother?
(3) Why does the mother say "you bad boy" when she sees her child? What is this tone?
4. Read aloud again.
(3) "Paper Boat"
1. Read aloud.
2. Talk about the overall feeling.
3. Content discussion.
(1) Why are there tears when folding paper boats? Why is there sadness besides love?
(2) Why use paper boats to express emotions?
( 4) Recitation Contest
(5) Homework
“Research and Practice” (2) and (3) are optional.
Relevant information
1. Introduction to the author
Tagore (1861-1941), Indian writer, poet, and social activist. Born into a landowner family. Studied in England. The International University was founded in Santiniguet in 1921. Write in Bengali and be creative throughout your life. His early works include poetry collections "Evening Song" and "Morning Song" and plays "The Monk" and "The King and Queen". Since 1903, he has successively published novels "Little Sand", "Shipwreck" and "Gola", scripts "Mojidotara", "Post Office" and "Red Oleander", and poetry collections "Gitanjali", "Crescent Collection" and "Gardener's Collection". ""The Collection of Flying Birds" and many short stories and short stories. It expresses sympathy for the miserable lives of the lower class people and the painful situation of women under British colonial rule, denounces feudalism and the caste system, and describes the tyranny of imperialists and bureaucrats. It also reflects the conflict between bourgeois democratic ideas and orthodox Hinduism. The style of the poetry is fresh and has a national style, but it is mysterious and sentimental. He is also good at composing and painting. The song "The Will of the People" was made the national anthem of India in 1950. His creations had a great influence on the development of Indian literature. Won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. (Selected from "Cihai", revised edition in 1999)
2. Bing Xin (Li Cunguang) before 1923
Bing Xin (1900-1999), modern essayist, novelist, Poet and children's literature writer. Her real name is Xie Wanying. Originally from Changle, Fujian, he was born in Fuzhou on October 5, 1900.
Bing Xin’s father is an open-minded naval officer. During her childhood, she spent seven or eight years in Yantai, Shandong Province. The sea left a deep impression on Bing Xin. In her early works, she often wrote affectionately about the sea. As a child, Bing Xin read extensively Chinese classical novels and foreign works translated into Chinese. When she was seven or eight years old, she even tried writing novels in vernacular and classical Chinese. In 1911, the family returned south to Fuzhou; the following year, she was admitted to Fuzhou Women's Normal College Preparatory College. In 1913, she went to Beijing with her family and entered the mission school Beiman Girls' Middle School in the following autumn. I learned some new knowledge here, and "at the same time, due to the influence of Christian doctrine, I implicitly formed my own philosophy of 'love'" ("Preface to "The Complete Works of Bing Xin""). In 1918, Bing Xin entered the preparatory course of Union College Women's University (the school was merged into Yenching University the following year) with the purpose of studying medicine. Later, she changed her original intention and switched to literature. In 1923, she graduated with honors from the liberal arts department of Yenching University.
Bing Xin is one of the first batch of modern writers to emerge from the May 4th New Literature Movement. She is one of the most famous female writers and an important member of the Literary Research Association.
The wave of the May 4th Movement swept Bing Xin out of her small family and the threshold of a church school. She participated in strikes, parades, meetings and street propaganda and other activities, and enthusiastically read "New Youth" and "New Wave", etc. magazine and published some promotional articles. Under the agitation of new ideological trends, he published his first novel "Two Families" under the pen name "Bing Xin" in September 1919. The novel uses contrasting techniques to describe the different lifestyles of the two families, reminding them of the need to improve family life for career. After that, she published "Issue Novels" that revealed social, family, women and other life issues such as "The Man Is Alone and Haggard", "Going to the Country", and "Zhuang Hong's Sister". These novels express Bing Xin's dissatisfaction with feudal forces and social status quo, but most of the protagonists in the works appear weak and haggard. After finishing writing the issues at hand, Bing Xin seized on the things active in her memories and wrote novels describing the lives of lower-level officers and soldiers such as "Fish" and "An Unimportant Soldier". After the climax of the May Fourth Movement, Bing Xin "withdrew and escaped into the narrow family circle to describe and praise the 'human love' that was impossible to implement in a class society" (Preface to "Selected Novels and Prose of Bing Xin"). "Superman" and "Enlightenment" are works that understand life through the philosophy of "love".
Meanwhile, she wrote prose. "Laughter", published in 1921, euphemistically expresses the love for life that overflows in the heart, and is considered to be a model "beautiful essay" in the early days of the New Literature Movement. In 1922, "The Past" was published. This group of prose narrates some deep and clear impressions left in childhood. From the winter of 1919, she was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore's "Birds" and recorded her "fragmented thoughts" in a few words from time to time. Later, it was published in the "New Literature and Art" column of "Morning Post" and compiled into "Stars" and "Spring Water", which were published in 1923. These more than 300 untitled aphorism-style free-style poems use natural and harmonious tones to express the author's feelings about natural scenery and philosophical thinking about life, and praise maternal love, human love and nature. They are short in length, clear in writing, and full of connotation. Meaningful and timeless, it shows the unique thoughts, feelings and aesthetic consciousness of female writers. It is unique and very influential in the May Fourth New Poetry Circle. In the autumn of 1923, Bing Xin went to the Graduate School of Wellesley Women's University in the United States to study English literature.
(Li Cunguangwen, "Encyclopedia of China·Chinese Literature", Encyclopedia of China Press, 1986 edition)
3. Two interpretations of "Golden Flower" (Liu Zhenfu)
"Golden Flower" is short in length but rich in meaning. It is a representative work in Rabindranath Tagore's collection of prose poems "New Moon Collection".
It writes about a hypothesis - "If I turned into a golden flower" (the first sentence), from which the imagination arises - a magical child "hide and seek" with his mother, forming an intriguing picture that expresses the relationship between the family and the family. Love expresses the beauty and holiness of human nature. Such a picture can be viewed from various angles and comprehend various meanings.
At first glance, what appears before us is a picture of children playing. The central character in the picture is "I" - a clever and cute child. "I" had a sudden idea and turned into a golden flower, playing with my mother three times a day. The first time I played was when my mother was praying, and the petals quietly opened to release the fragrance; the second time I played was when my mother was reading Ramayana, and the shadows were cast on the pages of the book she was reading; and the third time I played. , when the mother took the lamp and went to the cowshed, he suddenly jumped up to the mother and returned to his original shape. "I" "missed" for a day, but was always with my mother. "I" was innocent and childish, but he hid his own secrets. Only his mother didn't know. Finally, when his mother asked "where have I gone", he said "I won't tell you", which was a proud and well-intentioned "lying". Upon closer inspection, "I"'s strange behavior hides my attachment to my mother: emitting fragrance is a secret expression of attachment to my mother; casting a shadow on the page of the book my mother is reading is to shield my mother from the sun, and it is also a secret expression of attachment to my mother. . In short, "I" is expressing my feelings for my mother in a child-specific way.
Although the work is short, it has a complete plot and the development of the plot is choppy. The characters each reveal their own personalities as the plot develops: "I" is innocent, lively, clever, "cunning", and naturally kind; the mother is calm, pious, kind, and loving. Kindness and goodwill are the main theme of the mother and son's character expression. However, the "weirdness" of "I" and the "deception" of the mother are "disharmonious" with the main theme, resulting in some subtle changes, creating a strong interest.
After reading this, we have already appreciated the rich and interesting poetic flavor of the poem. However, if Tagore's creation of poetic meaning is limited to this, then he is not the great writer Tagore; what makes Tagore higher than ordinary poets is that he can go further and deeper where ordinary poets' feelings and ideas stop. Enter the state of wonderful enlightenment, enter the state of "trance". "The poem is immersed in the spirit, and when it is complete, it is exhausted, and the contempt is added to it" (Yan Yu's "Canglang Poetry Talk"). If we delve deeper and further into "Golden Flower", we will find even more surprising discoveries.
What is unfolding before us turns out to be another picture of the gods appearing. The center of the picture is still "I" - a lively and lovely elf. This elf has omnipotent divinity. As soon as it is thought of, it turns into a golden flower; the golden flower is blooming on the sacred tree in India. The poet sings about this flower, which originally contains devotion to God and creates a religious atmosphere. (In addition, the mother is a devout religious believer and maintains a calm and peaceful character, which also brings a bit of religious atmosphere to the poem). The elf can go up and down, swing at will, dance at will, bloom at will, and emit fragrance at will. With one last thought, he became human again. It has infinite freedom in what it does, which is in no way comparable to the physical body on earth. Of course, it not only has the power of God, but also the character of God—that is, goodness and love as mentioned above. Since this kind of kindness and love comes from little gods - little gods from the heavenly world, it is mysterious and sublime. Interpreted from this perspective, we can have a deeper understanding of the theme of the poem and the poet's thoughts and feelings. This is praising God. It turns out that what the poet preaches is love with religious significance-the noblest and purest love. Religious feelings enhance the emotion of the poem, and religious thoughts enhance the theme of the poem.
The meaning of this latter picture deserves more attention. Most people can only realistically write about children's playfulness and affection for their mothers; only Tagore can write about the deeds and psychology of personified gods, and write as lightly, cleverly and naturally as flowing clouds and flowing water. He wrote the mystery and implication of Eastern poetry and Eastern culture. In this regard, his poetry is also very different from Western poetry. Although the Western poetry world has been influenced by religious thoughts and emotions in history, after entering modern society, these thoughts and feelings have gradually faded and become alienated. We have yet to see any famous poet who believes as obsessively as Tagore. God, and using praise to God as a theme in poetry creation. Because Tagore lived in a country where Buddhism was the state religion, he was a poet trained in Eastern culture. Throughout Tagore's prose poems, one can feel a strong and mysterious religious atmosphere everywhere. The "half claws" of gods often appear in poems. Although the gods are not named, demonstrative pronouns such as "you", "him" and "she" usually indicate or imply the gods being praised. Therefore, it can be said that praising gods is the basic theme of Tagore's poetry creation and the deep theme of "The Golden Flower".
Of course we can interpret this poem only from the mundane and mundane themes, but that would be superficial and not in line with the original meaning expectations of Tagore's poems; if we rely on religious understanding, Interpreting it through the recognition of emotions and religious thoughts (although we are not using it to promote religion), the meaning of the work will become profound, and we can almost grasp the poet's emotions and ideas.
(Selected from "Teaching Materials for Primary and Secondary Schools" Issue 9, 2001)
4. The creative background of Bing Xin's "Paper Boat - Send to Mother" (Fan Boqun, Zeng Huapeng)
In the early summer of 1923, Bing Xin graduated with honors from Yanjing University and received the golden key, the honorary degree "Fitofei". She also accepted a scholarship from Wellesley Women's University, a sister school of Yenching Women's University, and prepared to study in the United States. This diligent student and writer exploring life is now at the starting point of a new journey in life. She said: "For the sake of life, I have voluntarily shed tears of farewell and made this 'wandering'!... I want to embark on a great road of life from now on!... So there is no need to be sad, my dearest love Mother! With blood and tears, I have opened the mysterious palace door of life. Because of the huge price, I will accept and enjoy life from now on." Bing Xin traveled a long distance and left her hometown to "travel" abroad. The purpose is to use the golden key in my hand to dig deeper into the treasure house of literature and open the palace door to the mysteries of life. However, for this female writer, the price she paid for this study tour was also huge: that was an unbearable heavy burden on her delicate and sensitive female nerves - enduring the pain that made her soul The trembling pain of separation. Therefore, the emotions of separation expressed in Bing Xin's prose and poetry works at that time left us with the most detailed, true, poignant and affectionate chapters describing the pain of separation. In this harmonious and beautiful family, during this period of time, parents, sisters and brothers all made the "most natural" forced smiles in front of each other, and everyone "deceived themselves and masturbated, deceived and comforted each other, and endured countless tears." ..." I only accidentally heard the quiet conversation between my younger brother and the children: "My sister is gone, and our family is like a pearl has been lost!" The sigh behind the father's back, the tears held back by the mother, I borrowed it again. Talking in the name of others, hanging out with friends for a long time, because I feel miserable when I first enter, and the sister and brother dare not sit together in silence. Sometimes they run around the big lotus tank and splash water on each other for fun. This kind of thing is not suitable for their age. The carnival masks the inner pain. In short, separation made everything abnormal in this family. "For a few months, we had known each other for a long time, but we were so soft-hearted that we didn't dare to expose this layer of paper." But when it came to parting, he pretended to be unconcerned: "I actually smiled! I He said: "Let's go!" It was as if he was speaking into the air, and the voice seemed to come from the air. When I heard it, I was startled. I opened the curtain and went out without looking at anyone." A hasty farewell, neither lingering nor tragic, it is a waste of my heart for so many days!" Bing Xin bid farewell to her family after living such a life of "insincere words" for a long time. It was August 3, 1923, and she took the Jingpu train south. It wasn't until the train started moving slowly and I was flipping through "History of Chinese Literature" that I saw a few large characters written in the margin of the page: "Don't forget Xiaoxiao". It was the handwriting of her youngest brother Bingji. That thin layer of paper made her heart as heavy as death feel very sad.
Bing Xin arrived in Shanghai on August 5, took a short rest, and took the Yorkson mail ship to the United States on August 17. She told her dear children in "Message to Young Readers·Newsletter 7":
On the afternoon of August 17, from the numerous windows of the Yorkson mail ship, colorful flying paper ribbons flew out from the distance. When I was thrown far to the shore and allowed to be held by the farewell people, my heart was soaring and sad!
Countless farewells infatuated, on the farthest river bank, just holding this The note that was finally severed left this huge thing, carrying the heaviest sorrow of separation, floating away!
I arrived in Kobe, Japan on August 19th, and visited Yokohama on August 21st. This short but long life on the boat made Bing Xin swim day and night in the arms of the goddess of the sea. She often stood by the railing and looked around: "The blue and green are all condensed into one. The golden light of the setting sun is like a long snake." Directly from the horizon to where the people are standing, from the sky to the water in front of the boat, dozens of colors spread from light red to deep green, layer by layer - children, hate. I can't draw. Words are the most useless things in the world. I can't describe this ethereal and wonderful scene!" The sparkling waves evoked Bing Xin's childhood memories. In the sound of the waves, her cherished childlike innocence and former playmates came alive. In the center of her brain. So on the boat Bing Xin "actually returned to the state of a child, making circles, throwing sandbags, and never tired of it..." Among the three pillars of this "philosophy of love" - ??maternal love, childlike innocence, and nature, only "childlike innocence" and "Nature" stands majestically in front of us, and the life away from home has completely removed the "maternal love" from these three pillars. Without this important pillar, Bing Xin felt that her whole soul was tilting uncontrollably. In order to escape this distressed state, even if it was to lighten one ten thousandth of the load, she wrote "Melancholy" and "Melancholy" in the boat. Paper Boats" and other poems. Visiting Yokohama in the rain, coupled with the unbalanced tilt of her soul, actually caused her to become seriously ill in the boat. She wrote in "Melancholy":
The mother in the dream
came to comfort me when I was ill,
The warm words of love—— /p>
When I woke up several times,
the medicine cup was no longer in my hand.
The sea breeze presses the quilt,
The bright light remains,
My heart
is so melancholy - asana!
"Melancholy" was written based on a dream: "That night I dreamed that my mother came, touched my forehead and said, 'It's very hot, just take a few mouthfuls of medicine.' She was holding a medicine cup in her hand. Tell me to drink it. I saw that the medicine was yellow water, and I drank it in one breath. In my dream, I thought it smelled like orange juice. When I woke up, I could hear the roar of the sea breeze outside the round window, and I turned over and fell asleep again. Then it will disappear." This longing for my mother made me sick, and I condensed it into poems because of my dream about my mother's recovery. These affectionate poems were built into a temporary scaffold to replace the removed beams. To maintain the balance of this soul. "Paper Boat - To Mother" was also written on a boat in the Pacific Ocean. The idea of ??the poem is to place the deep feeling of missing the mother in the innocent behavior of returning childlike innocence: she folded many small paper boats and threw them into the sea. Some were blown into the boat by the wind, and some were hit by the waves. It was wet on the bow of the boat, but she still folded it and threw it away happily:
Mother, if you see a small white boat in your dream,
Don’t be surprised that it fell into the dream for no reason. .
This is what your beloved daughter folded with tears in her eyes.
Thousands of rivers and mountains, please pray that it will carry her love and sorrow back home.
In the three years since Bing Xin went to China, she was far away from her mother and often immersed in the memory of her mother's love. Therefore, she sang songs for her mother's love during these three years, which accounted for a large part of her works during this period. Bing Xin has become one of the most successful and touching writers in describing maternal love in world literature. Of course, Bing Xin not only eulogized maternal love with poignant and delicate words, but also wrote about her fight with the wind and waves in the sea as the beloved daughter of a navigator, and proudly said with the pride of a winner: "The sea has proven that I am indeed She is her father's daughter." These words also reveal the heroic spirit of a martial artist who "sharpens his sword to fight against the enemy." Before leaving for China, her father once said to her: "If you get seasick during this trip across the Pacific, you are not worthy of being my daughter!" Therefore, when she heard that the storm was coming, she felt a "nameless joy" ", like a fledgling confident warrior, jumping onto the ring, eager to test his skills. When she saw her companions leaning sideways in the rocking boat, with their mouths covered in a frown, their faces expressionless, and they dispersed one after another, her mind flew over, and she boarded the highest point of the ship, just like a sword going down to the Dragon Palace for a banquet. On the first deck, Bing Xin said: "It's like preparing to go to the sea for a night banquet where the goddess invites you to have a drink; it's also like sharpening a sword to go to the enemy. The opponent is a famous athlete, but I am somewhat sure of victory." Although her words are rare among the articles she wrote when she went to the country, they are also unique. They reveal a heroic spirit in the charm of women. They are slightly different from the literary style of expressing maternal love, but the style is harmonious.
(Selected from "The Critical Biography of Bing Xin", People's Literature Publishing House, 1983 edition)
5. Appreciation of "Paper Boat - Send to Mother" (Pan Songde)
In the early summer of 1923, Bing Xin graduated from Yenching University. On August 17 of the same year, she took the Yorkson cruise ship from Shanghai to study in the United States. Arrive in Kobe, Japan on August 19th and visit Yokohama on the 21st. Judging from the time of writing, this poem was written by the poet on the sixth day after visiting Yokohama, while on the ship continuing to sail to the other side of the ocean.
The sparkling sea waves and surging tides revive the poet's childlike innocence of loving the sea; the turquoise sea water and flying seagulls make the poet close to nature again. During the ten days or so of sea life after setting off from Wusongkou, the three pillars of Bing Xin's early philosophy of life and "love" - ??maternal love, childlike innocence, and nature. Only "childlike innocence" and "nature" were resurrected and reappeared at this time. And "maternal love" cannot be close because it is far away from the mother. Therefore, the poet missed his mother very much, and even became ill because of missing her mother, and recovered from his illness because he saw her mother in his dream. This poem expresses the poet's deep affection for missing his mother.
The first stanza of the poem begins with his innocent and childlike behavior of folding paper and making a boat. It says that he refused to throw away a piece of paper on the ship, so he kept it folded into a boat and threw it from the boat. To the sea. The seemingly plain four lines pave the way for an emotional outburst. The second section describes the whereabouts of the paper boats thrown from the ship. "Some were blown into the windows of the boat by the wind, and some were wetted by the waves and stuck to the bow." These kinds of destinations are not consistent. The poet's sincere wish. She "always hopes that one will flow to where I want it to go." For this reason, she "still folds it every day without getting discouraged." This shows how strong and sincere her desire is. As for where he hopes the paper boat will flow, the poet does not clearly say it in this section, which creates suspense and is thought-provoking. The poet naturally understood that it was impossible for the paper boat to flow to his mother, so he created a new meaning in the third stanza of the poem. The poet recalled that his mother saw a small white boat in her dream. If this imagination is ordinary, "don't be surprised that it fell into a dream for no reason", which shows the strangeness of the poet's imagination. So, why should the mother not be surprised when the boat enters the dream? The poet adopts the method of "showing his ambition in the final chapter". At the end of the poem, he points out that the paper boat that entered the mother's dream in her imagination was folded by her with tears. She prayed The paper boat carried her love for her mother and the sadness caused by being away from her mother to her mother's side. This ending is the climax of the whole poem.
The feelings of missing my mother are relatively abstract and tend to be empty and superficial when writing. This poem has a novel concept, and the poet uses the method of expressing emotions through objects, so that the expression of emotions is vivid, concrete, implicit, and deep.
In addition, the poem's longer lines and slow tone are in harmony with the long longing for the mother.
(Selected from "New Poetry Appreciation Dictionary", Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, 1991 edition)