Based on the interpretation of Ai Qing's three poems, this paper discusses the view of truth, goodness and beauty in Ai Qing's poetry theory.
Truth is the life of art, and truth, goodness and beauty are an organic whole.
Keywords: Ai Qing, truth, goodness and beauty
Ai Qing, a poet, chewed the injustice of fate for more than 20 years in the cold northeast forest and the arid desert of Xinjiang, but the poet's will is strong, his passion is still like fire, and his throat is still singing.
Ai Qing's name has already transcended national boundaries, because his poems have been translated into many languages and spread all over the world, but Ai Qing left us not only his poems, but also his poetic theory based on his creative practice.
First, the authenticity of poetry.
Truth is the life of art.
After Ai Qing came back, he also raised the question that "poets must tell the truth".
Aristotle pointed out in Poetics that poets and artists should reflect the essence and laws of life.
Ai Qing believes that poets should tell the truth under any circumstances.
The truth of Ai Qing's poems is first reflected in his accurate understanding of life and society.
In the early 1930s, Northeast China and North China basically ceased to exist. During this period, the motherland was full of suffering and struggled in poverty and weakness. The poet in this period also experienced many twists and turns, but he sensitively felt the humiliation of the motherland and the struggle he had to do, and also truthfully wrote down the anger rising in his heart.
1938, I published a collection of poems, I love this land.
If I were a bird,
I should also sing with a hoarse throat:
This land hit by the storm,
This river of sadness and anger will surge forever,
This endless wind,
And the gentle dawn from the forest ...
-And then I died,
Even feathers rot in the ground.
Why do I often cry?
Because I love this land deeply. ...
Ai Qing is a singer of land, and "land" is one of the two most common images in his poems.
"Land" symbolizes the troubled motherland that gave birth to him and raised him.
Love for "land" is an inexhaustible melody in Ai Qing's works.
In poetry, the environment described by the poet is real and closely related to the background of the times. The land hit by the storm is also the motherland that has been oppressed and abused by various kinds. It is a civilized place with a long history under the impact of various hardships such as the establishment of Manchuria in the September 18th Incident, the near collapse of Northeast China, the July 7th Incident and Japan's full-scale invasion of China.
Poets care about the fate of the country and the future of the nation. He used his songs to tell about the dark environment at that time, which was a true understanding of social reality.
This is the authenticity of this poem.
Aristotle pointed out that poetry is more real than history, and history describes specific events, while poetry talks about inevitable events that conform to essential laws.
In the uneasy environment of gunfire, what the poet wants to write is not a crow or a specific event, but an abstract real environment at that time.
If I were a bird, the whole poem begins with such an unexpected assumption that some people here may ask why birds should be written when describing the land. I should also sing with a hoarse voice.
At the moment when the national machine of the motherland's life and death is in trouble, even a bird on the motherland's land will not succumb to the enemy's feet and make an unyielding voice with its own voice.
This reminds people that "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world."
"The river that always surges with our grief and indignation", the river on the land symbolizes the grief and indignation that has been smoldering in people's hearts for a long time.
"The wind of anger is endless", the wind blowing across the earth, symbolizes the people's anger at the atrocities of the invaders.
"The incomparably gentle dawn from the forest" indicates that the dawn of independence and freedom for which people struggle and devote themselves will surely come to this land.
"Then I died/even my feathers rotted in the ground." When the bird was alive, it tried its best to sing for this land. After death, it throws its whole body into the embrace of the land, and even its feathers are integrated with the land.
A static close-up of "Why do I often have tears in my eyes" and "Tears in my eyes" shows the grief and pain that has been lingering in my heart for a long time.
"Because I love this land deeply", witnessing the reality that mountains and rivers are broken and people are wiped by charcoal, the deeper my love for my motherland, the stronger my pain in my heart.
The last two sentences condensed and summarized the whole poem, which is also the essence of the whole poem. In that difficult era, all patriotic intellectuals, except this, could not tell the most sincere love for their motherland.
This kind of love will never die, not only from the poet's heart, but also from the patriotic feelings of the whole nation.
Ai Qing used these two poems to express the voice of the Chinese people in that era.
The poet wrote an elegy generated in the soul in the environment at that time, which was a "natural expression of true feelings".
Ai Qing's works are full of deep affection for the motherland, true and deep, and have a strong inner experience.
This is the emotional truth of poetry.
Ai Qing said that poetry is the crystallization of life, which is more real and pure than life.
He has always adhered to this aesthetic concept.
This is the truth of art.
Ai Qing's poems accurately reflect his poetic theory, and poetry should be true.
Second, the beauty of poetry.
Ai Qing clearly declared in "On Poetry": "Always be with the people and understand the beauty of their souls. Only they can save the world from evil. "
Ai Qing grew up drinking the milk of the farmer's nanny Dayanhe. His temperament, personality, life and soul all show that he is a real "son of the people".
He wants to sing and shout for folk songs.
Poets are kind. He wrote down his feelings for the nanny and the working people with a kind heart.
The poem says: "Dayanhe is my nanny, I am the son of the landlord, and I grew up eating the milk of Dayanhe's son Dayanhe."
"Her name is the name of the village where she was born, and she is a child bride ..." However, this week is not written exclusively for her. To be exact, she is a symbol, symbolizing all the hard-working people in the motherland.
It symbolizes all mothers who have gone through hardships to raise their sons.
Dayan River has no name. Dayan River is just a place name, where she was born.
Dayan River is common.
Her life is full of ordinary things, which is the silhouette of her miserable life.
Her living space is the former residence of a "dead tile", a "ten-square-foot pawn garden", and there is only a "grave full of grass" after her death.
Her life is a "black sauce bowl", a "sewing clothes torn by thorns for her son", and washing vegetables and cutting vegetables in the cold river.
Her son and husband live a relatively stable life under her care.
After her death, they can no longer enjoy this kind of care, lose everything and live in humiliation.
Her image is also the image of the working people connected with the land.
They guard the earth, born and rooted in it, and he is the great representative of all workers.
Poetry is also good, Ai Qing said in On Poetry. First, poetry should be based on improving human pride.
Second, poetry is a personality, which must be lofty and complete.
The propaganda of art is profound and naturally difficult to destroy. As the crown of art, poetry naturally undertakes the mission of revealing truth.
The poet's praise to the working people of Dayanhe River ―― My nanny is also a praise to the "just man who has not lost his conscience" in the war years.
Third, the beauty of poetry.
Truth, goodness and beauty are an organic unity, which cannot be separated from boiled water and milk.
For a long time, China's poems emphasized "persuading beauty to punish evil, but beauty itself is not often discovered".
How lively the movements are,
Jumping in the waves and floating in the sea;
Unfortunately, when a volcano erupts, it may be an earthquake.
You lost your freedom and were buried in the dust;
Hundreds of millions of years later, members of the geological survey team
I found you in the rocks, still lifelike.
But you were silent and didn't even sigh,
Scales and fins are intact, but they cannot move;
You are completely still, unresponsive to the outside world,
Can't see the sky and water, can't hear the sound of the waves.
Staring at fossils, fools learn a lesson:
There is no life without exercise.
To live is to struggle, to advance in the struggle,
When death does not come, use your energy cleanly.
In Fossil Fish, the poet wrote about fish and people.
After the eruption of "volcano" and "earthquake", a jumping fish was buried in the dust and lost its life.
This fin scale is intact, and the pain of losing freedom is so deep.
The poet said, "Too many people have become fossils these years." The poet thinks not only of personal sorrow and fate, but of many people.
Caused a lot of people's voices.
The poet bluntly reminded people to accept the lesson.
Ai Qing's poetry starts from the needs of the people of the times, and the poet expresses the thoughts of the times in change, which is the beauty of poetry and the beauty of content.
This poem "Fish Fossil" takes fossils as images, which is not only a description of fossils in content, but also very similar to a fish fossil in form. The whole poem is divided into seven sections, with similar words in each section, which is very regular and slightly stiff, like the fossil described in the poem, and the structure of the whole poem is very similar to a complete fish fossil.
Ai Qing thinks that people often pay attention to the beauty of poetry content and ignore the beauty of poetry form.
He said: "a poem must combine truth, goodness and beauty in such a harmonious way that they can be naturally coordinated." They don't conflict with each other, but perfect each other by perfecting themselves-so that they are complete. "
A truly beautiful poem and a truly successful poem must be the unity of form and content and the combination of truth, goodness and beauty.
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Interpretation of the beauty of Ai Qing's poems II.
Ai Qing, a famous modern poet, created brilliant classical poems with high artistic sensitivity, sincere passion and simple and natural style.
Ai Qing's poems are always beautiful, and the beauty of his poems is mainly manifested in: sincere beauty; The beauty of painting; The simple and natural beauty of language; The material is simple, clear and beautiful; The symbolic beauty of broad feelings.
Keywords: Ai Qing's poems; Sincere beauty; The beauty of painting; Simple natural beauty; Simple and beautiful materials; Symbolic beauty
Ai Qing, a famous modern poet, is a "leading figure" in China's poetry circle.
He created brilliant classical poems with high artistic sensitivity, sincere passion and simple and natural style.
It greatly promoted the development of China's poetry and pushed China's poetry to a new height.
China's poetry has really become the strong voice of the times.
I can never get tired of reading Ai Qing's poems.
Reading his poems, a kind of sincerity, a kind of passion, a kind of responsibility and a kind of beauty arises spontaneously.
The poet's strong patriotism stirs people's hearts and often makes people cry.
So I said that Ai Qing's poems are always beautiful, no matter what theme, material, artistic conception or scenery.
Combined with his works, I think the beauty of his poems is mainly manifested in the following aspects:
First, sincere beauty
Ai Qing once said in Poetry and Times, "I am immersed in the joys, sorrows, loves and wishes of millions of people with my sincere heart."
That's what poets do.
He integrated his patriotic feelings full of sincere passion and dedication to the national liberation struggle into his works.
Every poem of his has true feelings, and his feelings are so real and pure.
For example, the poet "Dayan River ―― My Nanny" gives vent to his truest feelings and expresses his feelings about Dayan River, which is mellow and strong, making people cry.
Look at these simple and affectionate sentences: "You hold me in your arms with a big palm and touch me/after you light the stove/after you take off the charcoal ash from your apron/you hold me in your arms and touch me with a big palm.
//Dayanhe,/I grew up eating your milk/your son/I respect you/love you! "What a vivid gratitude and love for the nanny, so natural and sincere.
Another example is "I love this land". Look: "Why do I often have tears in my eyes? Because I love this land deeply ... "This poem is so simple, but it has earth-shattering regrets. What a rich emotion this tear contains.
The poet's sincere and deep feelings are beautiful! The poet is more like that spoony bird. After screaming at the top of his lungs, even his feathers rotted in the ground.
The bird's infatuation with the land is the poet's love for the motherland.
Another example is "The Land of Resurrection", in which the poet's most sincere and firm heart pours between the lines with stirring emotions, and we strongly feel his soul-stirring childlike innocence.