-Appreciation of Xi Murong's prose group "Four Seasons";
Taiwan Province poetess Xi Murong's prose collection Four Seasons includes Xia Yun, Autumn Rain, Winter Snow and Spring Thunder. In these four short articles, each one describes the characteristics of each season and has specific contents. However, because a "she" runs through the whole text as the protagonist, four essays are skillfully combined to describe her career, thoughts and love in a relaxed and concise style, which is a summary of her life path. This structure is unique, it meets the needs of lyricism. And this "she" is the author herself, and the "four seasons" is her true feeling.
Every work in the prose group can be tasted as an independent painting. "Xia Yun" is about her feeling of studying in rainy Europe in summer, revealing a faint sense of loneliness. The first half of the autumn rain is a memory, recalling the happy scene when they graduated from high school six years ago and the scene when they were "teased" by the drops of autumn rain while walking in Binjiang Park. Six years later, in Switzerland, suddenly, "raindrops all over her" and "she" couldn't help thinking of "him"-the love between him and her has matured. Although time is like water, autumn rain is lovely! Winter Snow is about a peaceful and happy life after marriage. One snowy day, angola cat, given to her by her husband, looked at the snowflakes flying all over the sky, and she was also looking at the cat. Lonely, I miss my hometown-Taiwan Province Province. "Spring Thunder" is about now. Now, "she" has returned to her hometown to work as a teacher. In the first class, "she" thought she would see a strange face, but what happened under the stage was a familiar nostalgia, and a pleasant sense of belonging came to the fore.
Prose began in summer and ended in spring, which changed the regular order of the four seasons and had the author's intention: "She" went to Europe in summer. That year, "she" was still a young girl, full of youth and vigor, just like the summer sky, clear, blue and pure. Although a cloud occasionally floats by, in "lying on the green hillside behind the house" and "drunken south wind", "she" imagines that cloud as the most beautiful ornament of golden sunshine. However, Europe is rainy, a stranger, and there is no sunny day. When she was alone in the crowd, the crowd threw loneliness back to her. Therefore, her life began in that rainy summer.
"Love is the source of everything", Xi Murong was so convinced. On the trip abroad, love made her life gentler, sweeter and happier. Autumn rain is a romantic feeling in the hearts of young people. It is full, light and naughty, and likes to sprinkle "blessing water" on lovers. So, autumn came and love came to fruition.
After autumn comes winter. The winter in Europe is cold and gray, but with her husband's consideration and angola cat's company, the home in Europe is very warm. But the winters in Europe are very long. When the room is bleak and looking at the snow outside the window, "she" can't help but miss "the fragrance of the south" very strongly.
Will there be a strong sense of strangeness when you return to your motherland after many years? In "Spring Thunder", "she" has such worries. But spring is the season when everything recovers. When "she" returned to the motherland as she wished and became a teacher, the sound of spring thunder completely awakened her homesickness-how beautiful the spring of the motherland is! "It turned out that what I was looking for to run around the world was in my hometown." This is her home!
From the above analysis, we can see that the emotional clues in the prose group are coherent and mutually causal, and develop according to the development of time. However, it takes a long time from studying abroad to graduation, to getting married and finally returning to China, and the feelings are very complicated. Therefore, the author skillfully condensed them into four seasons to describe them. The application of this structure is undoubtedly very successful for prose. My humble pen believes that the reason for its success lies not only in the coherent feelings as an insider, but also in the aesthetic realm of the author, poet and painter. This aesthetic realm is mainly reflected in the fresh and simple language and the details that connect life, thoughts and deep emotions.
Xi Murong has two identities-a painter and a poet. Her style is natural and delicate, so her language is like lines in her paintings. Her writing is fluent, delicate and concise, and she has a strong sense of truth. When she speaks, she creates a picturesque artistic realm. For example, Europe in Xia Yun, Rainy Days in Mao Mao, She, Wearing a Sweater and Holding an Umbrella, a person walks in a foreign land with a simple sadness, melancholy and disorientation. So, naturally, my hazy eyes seemed to see the "man" from my hometown coming quietly to her from the hillside in the strange rain and fog. What is reflected on his young face is blue sky and white clouds. "Walk quietly", what a timely and gentle comfort! And "young face" corresponds to the author's mood at that age-youth, liveliness and carefree! Although these are all memories brought from home, they bring sweet warmth and thoughts. Suddenly, the melancholy disappeared, and love sprouted quietly in my heart. All this was outlined by the author in just a few dozen words, and the technique was superb! What is even more amazing is the self-portrait painted by the author in the autumn rain-"Take off the white shirt and black skirt and put on the pink clothes given by my sister" "The door of the girl's dormitory has turned gray behind her! "How nice! Although the owner of the word "grey" is a door, it makes a beautiful and refined pure girl stand on the paper! The appearance of every word makes the reader's heart beat, recall and sigh with the happy melody played by young life-"Time flies like water" used to be so touching!
Emotion is always associated with life. But emotions are subjective and constantly changing, so they can't be collected. Life is objective, and its fragments can be recorded. In order to write down the traces of emotion, the author deliberately disassembled the whole experience, leaving only a few fragments to make a unique and unique picture. For example, Xia Yun depicts the impression of my hometown in my mind; "Autumn Rain" recorded the scene of "She" walking on the streets of Switzerland in red and brown high heels. The picture of "Winter Thunder" is that the cat is looking at the snow and "she" is looking at the cat; In "Spring Thunder", "She" stood on the podium and looked at the students in the audience with mixed feelings. Four scenes, like four simple still life paintings, are led by the author's thoughts, one by one, and slowly tell their own experiences in four stages, which have unique aesthetic effects. They contain the author's emotions, but they leave readers a very full imagination space to associate and construct.
The true meaning of life can only be obtained through personal understanding, including the pleasant sense of belonging that the author was surprised to find after returning to China.
"Life is short,
Although flowers fade easily in spring,
however
Because of love,
Our life has become very sweet and far away.
No regrets! "
This is the contented Xi Murong. The unique structure of the essay "Four Seasons" expresses her unique observation of life, and at the same time fully demonstrates her talent, which makes the article exude attractive charm!