Last night, I was lucky enough to listen to the Sea of Life, which was taught by Teacher Song Qing in Fan Qiqiwei's class. In class, I learned about Mai Jia for the first time.
Mai Jia said: "I will always write a book related to my hometown in my life." Mai Jia believes that a writer can't escape his childhood and hometown in writing. This makes me have to think about a collection of poems that I still can't put down after reading for many years, and that is Tian He's Call Home. This collection of poems once surprised and left a deep impression on me. I bought it at 14.00 that year. I often take out this book to read, and I still like it as always today after ten years.
Throughout the ages, hometown often appears in literary works and is the object of poets' praise. Poems about hometown left a deep impression on readers, such as Silent Night by Li Bai in ancient poetry and Homesickness by Yu Guangzhong in modern poetry. Today, I took down this collection of poems and read it again. Reading Call Home ten years ago was a surprise, a surprise, a touch and a shock. This collection of poems has been collected so far, and there are still many feelings when I read it again today. Once again, I feel the poet's deep attachment to the countryside and compassion for the fate of the people at the bottom.
I. Introduction to the author:
Second, the main content: There are 90 poems in the collection of poems, which are divided into five series.
In the first episode, the train passes through the village. In this series, the poet wrote his concern, nostalgia and love for his hometown with 18 poems with strong feelings and profound and simple language. Others say that they miss their hometown, miss their hometown and write about their hometown, but the poet "cries hometown": "Hometown is in Jiangnan/I shout hometown is in Jiangnan/with my heart, with my pen, with my broken voice", "Shout out, cry out tears, shout out blood", shout out the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, villages .. Read this poem, my heart. This call from my hometown is really stirring and charming.
The second series, the distant grassland. Through 19 poems, the poet described the distant grassland in his hometown, farmers' millet, yurts in the dark, dry stones by the river, Jiangnan water town as soft as steel, eighteen winding waterways on reeds, winding mountains and the moon in the middle of the night in plain language ... He wrote about his relatives, his father, his mother, those simple villagers who took shelter from the rain. "Mother said that it is more reliable to keep water and soil than to keep mountains and rivers", because the hometown nourishes life with soil, so for everyone, although they have left their hometown, the rural land is still the root of life.
The third to fifth episodes are the construction site at night, crooked branches and my cousin who came from the countryside. In these dozens of poems, through pure scene description, the life of hometown people is described to readers, and there are living villagers in beautiful land. The author's poems show vivid life, which is thought-provoking and unforgettable. There are farmers on the construction site, including masons, miners, shepherds, quarrymen, beggars, old women with crutches, kiln owners, fathers, mothers, cousins, second aunts, fourth aunts, daughters-in-law with dark skin, fifth aunts with wet nurses, old people selling baked sweet potatoes and old carpenters. ...
Passing through the canteen of migrant workers, the poet carefully described the migrant workers as "looking at the foreman, a potato was sandwiched between wooden chopsticks and stayed for a long time." In his bowl/besides pickles and radishes, there are two/half-cooked red peppers ",which is thought-provoking through the true portrayal of farmers' life;" It is thought-provoking to write the workers in the mine disaster as "2 13 miner's lamps go out, a mine disaster in front of them, an accident, 30 thousand yuan, coal in 100 million years". There are also the screams, screams and calmness behind "A Migrant Worker Fell from a Scaffold", which are all described in plain language, but it is shocking to read; The poet's description of the crazy woman is painful. She is a crazy woman, but she is a real mother, which is a compliment to the motherhood of the lowest-class women in rural areas.
The fate of the characters in the poem mostly reflects the real state of rural farmers' life at that time: life is full of hardships, but even the lowest rural people treat life with the same heart. The villagers and their hometown are connected by flesh and blood, and they have infiltrated this land with their souls and sweat. Poets will use detailed images and vivid characters to touch people's fate and opportunities. Although the life described in these poems was ten years ago, we can still feel the heartbreaking pain today.
Third, the art of poetry.
First of all, it is full of human feelings in poetry content; Every poem in Call for Hometown can be regarded as a frequent call of the poet. This voice is full of compassion for human nature, like a simple local accent. It has been honed by the multiple hardships of life and has become hoarse. Reading is touching, and listening makes people cry. This is a poem that makes people feel like a knife. Pain is like the poet's "pain hidden in the soil": "In rural areas, farmers still hold sweet potatoes in big bowls/make pickles with dried vine leaves/sit on platters, and occasionally drink bitter wine/eat meat, even if/to fatten the crops in June." And this pain is powerful and real. Reading poetry, you can feel the great tension of that kind of power in the land: "It is destined to grow/fall, fall/creep in the soil, and it involves the power deeply rooted in the soil/up and down the earth/roots, making the soil/in the hidden pain, sweet potatoes/swell day by day." Without a deep understanding of life and strong feelings for his hometown, how can he write these exciting poems?
Secondly, I discovered poetry with my keen senses; Wen Yiduo regards "sensitive official sense", "delicate emotion" and "meticulous thinking" as the most important progress of modern poets. Reading the book Call Home, we can feel the poet's sensitivity to poetry and life. He is good at finding poetry from things hidden in ordinary life scenes, such as "Pot in the Summer Field": "That is the smallest well in the village ... The water in the pot was not drunk by the hoe, but evaporated by the sun. /It is better to save a mass of wheat than to moisten a heart and lung. " . Another example is "the stone mill in the village/it may be very hungry/let's go and feed it/eat three liters of sorghum before dusk". A migrant worker fell off the scaffold and wrote, "The boss came to have a look/ordered his people to wash the blood off the ground with clean water/his construction site continued to operate/he threw 30 thousand yuan/went home and slept as drunk as that migrant worker." This seemingly rough description is shocking to read.
Third, mold real life and nature into artistic images; In terms of artistic techniques, poets are good at using rhetorical devices to create artistic images of real life and natural scenery. The poet used appropriate metaphors in his poems and described many impressive impressions, such as: "Autumn wind crumpled my relatives' faces like scattered sadness". The poet wrote about rape blossoms: "Rape blossoms surge like a flood/trickle down from the hillside of the village/several primary schools/rape blossoms run/Yesterday, I only saw a few flowers/overnight, they spread all over the mountains/all over Shan Ye/clean rape blossoms in the wild/I stood among them and took a deep breath". In the poet's pen, Shan Ye is full of flowers under the spring breeze, and the author skillfully uses the words "drip" and "diffuse" to show the vitality beauty of the surging spring tide.
Fourth, describe the life of the lower class as a poem. The life of the country people is simple, and the feelings between people are simple and cordial. The poet wrote about the people in his hometown and the women and children in his hometown. No matter day or night, spring, summer, autumn and winter, simple homesickness is like potatoes growing in the soil, and the land has fallen off. Even at the banquet in the city, potatoes have turned into mashed potatoes and potato cakes, but as a person coming out of his hometown, he can't forget a feeling. That feeling is mutual help deeply rooted in the soul of our country. * * * The feeling of watching: "He sent a big bowl to Zhu Mu's family next door/two bowls to Liangfa's family/five/seven wives, six to five guarantees, nine grandfathers/two stuffed them into my schoolbag/left a small potato for himself". This unpretentious poem depicts the most precious human feelings in our country. The life of the lower class may be miserable, but it is with this kind of care and mutual assistance between people that the working people will eventually overcome the suffering of life.
In the language of poetry, the poet wrote the simplicity, nobility and standing of his hometown, which made people fall in love with his hometown. Hometown is suffering in the poet's pen, but there is more praise for it, like a trickle flowing in an affectionate heart. The beauty of love is as beautiful as a peach blossom, as gorgeous as an apricot tree, and a herb born in the valley. These three kinds of flowers are derived from the love of hometown, and also praise the local feelings. In Tian He's hometown, there is also a rural Chinese teacher. Let's read it together: "She is short, bigger than her height/She eats a Chinese character/Spits out a lot of nouns, verbs and adjectives/She teaches her children to read Tang poetry aloud/Write new words on the blackboard on tiptoe/Read it five times/Erase one by one/Wang Guihua's seat last year/. I am not surprised to read this poem. When I first read this poem, I felt that the poet was writing about myself. Poetry is like a golden key, which easily opens my heart and makes my crystal tears spill on the ink-scented paper.
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