The hometown of oriental poets is secular and moral, filled with dust, rice fragrance and affection. We can see that Wen Yiduo's "hometown" is the hometown of the world. By the lake, in the middle of rice fields, we can hear the roar of waterwheels and see the bamboo in full bloom.
Wen Yiduo, who left his hometown for three years,1July, 925, returned to China from the United States, to his hometown of Hubei to study water, and to his wife and two-year-old daughter. There are mountains and rivers here, beautiful wives and young children. Everything is simple, beautiful and affectionate. For Wen Yiduo, who has traveled in the United States for three years and witnessed the deformed and indifferent industrial civilization, the beauty of his hometown is new and tender. There is no doubt that his hometown is a poem.
There is no noise of machines, no transpiration of desire, no naked struggle, no clear hatred in this hometown ... In the quiet countryside, nature, people and mind are harmonious and full of feelings. In that world, the confrontation between man and the world that the poet felt disappeared here. The poet and his pastoral poems are attached to each other here. It is this persistence that runs through the whole poem. In the description of the fresh pastoral style in the poem, we can see the kind of tranquility that the poet once had here that will never be forgotten: in the lake of Wangtian, in the rice fields, in the white clouds on the sacred mountain, in the sound of the waterwheel outside the door ... even death and disaster (as implied by graves, stone tablets and flowering bamboos) are just like "water chestnut thorns" and "broken wires", just like this simple world full of opportunities. In this idyllic country, nature and people live in harmony: "Sparrows play martial arts on bamboo branches", "Yaner flies to other people's halls to report good news", and even the roar of waterwheels echoes in people's hearts like music ... Nature is not an arena for jungle and natural selection, but a paradise for free survival: "rabbits eat dusk" and "dogs don't chase rabbits" ... Poets are addicted to this: there are better places in the world.
The poet asks himself and answers himself here with indulgent happiness and self-confidence. Hometown adopts a dialogue style, in which the questioner set by the poet answers with the poet, the poet debates with the questioner, and the poet states his reasons for returning to his hometown. The beauty and nature of the hometown and the poet's nostalgia for the hometown are vividly expressed in the poet's statement. In the first part, someone asked the poet why he was in such a hurry. In the second paragraph, the poet replied in a hurry: this is because his hometown is attracting his heart. He is eager to go to his hometown and doesn't even want to give too many answers. Curious and happy, the questioner couldn't help asking, "Why don't you travel to a strange world and return to a familiar place?" The poet described the simple magic of his hometown: brooding crake, changing white clouds and swallows delivering good news. Don't you lose your freedom to travel when you go home? No, the poet replied, only in my hometown can my heart be complete and I can have real freedom and harmony. Believe it or not, the waterwheel outside is playing music for the wanderers who have come back to live temporarily. There is brilliance and wisdom in the world, but there is peace and tranquility in my hometown ... This question and answer makes poetry dramatic. We seem to see the poet running to his hometown, and a rapper chattering beside him. The poet hurried on and answered absently. On the one hand, this lyric poem has an objective color, and the beauty of hometown becomes more real. On the other hand, it gives the whole poem an urgent rhythm and a strong incoherent atmosphere. This is caused by the emotional tension between the two interlocutors, which makes us deeply impressed by the poet's emotional strength, and we can even feel the speed at which the poet's heart rushes to his hometown. In addition, questions are interspersed between the poet's descriptions, which makes the whole poem uniform in rhythm, with ups and downs in form and emotion, cadence and rhythm.
Wen Yiduo once commented on Yu Pingbo's new poem "Winter Night": "Concise, dense and delicate are his syllable characteristics." Wen Yiduo's hometown also has this feature. But at the same time, because Wen Yiduo uses dialogue in this poem, the language is close to spoken language, so the syllables are more free, stretched, smooth and natural.
Wen Yiduo was dissatisfied with the new poet's "weakness or complete lack of imagination". In his poems, emotion and imagination are indispensable, and we can see rich, dense and concrete images in many of his poems. In the poem "Hometown", we can still see Wen Yiduo's efforts in this regard. The poet's imagination is rich and peculiar. For example, The Heart of a Wanderer is a remnant monument eroded by wind and frost, and the handwriting of his hometown has already flooded on the monument. "The wandering heart is visualized as a relic of weathering and erosion, which is appropriate, innovative and full of emotional power. Throughout the poem, vivid and concrete images can be seen everywhere, which carry the poet's emotions and convey them to readers. Objects have aesthetic feeling because of the power of emotion, and expressing emotions with images also has aesthetic value. Therefore, the common problem of "carving dew" in May 4th new poetry can be avoided.