In this world that is extremely familiar to us but extremely unfamiliar to us, is there anything eternal? Maybe, maybe not. But for us, the tiny humans, eternity is too far away and too illusory, just like the morning star looming in the sky at dawn. So while we were eagerly looking at the gem near the horizon, we were stroking the bedding that was still slightly warm after a night's sleep - yes, everything around us will still disappear. It may be that external objects disappear under your gaze, or it may be that you disappear first, and then everything becomes nothingness. So we cannot see the eternal thing after all, even if it exists. What's more, you can't prove it once you see it, because only eternity can witness another eternity. The day of disappearance will come sooner or later, and before that, what we experience is the so-called life.
So what will we encounter in this life? What we encounter is still endless disappearance. In this sense, disappearance itself is a kind of eternity.
Then the beast disappeared and disappeared from the forest.
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At first glance, it seems to be the work of an environmentalist, telling people to cherish wild animals. In fact, there is nothing wrong with thinking this way. Although most of the things that appear in poetry are images, if the superficial meaning can also have a certain enlightenment effect, why not do it? In fact, this is true for every stanza of this poem. Its surface meaning is so direct and simple that children will not feel a trace of ambiguity when reading it. But in this case it is no longer a poem, but a nursery rhyme. Therefore, as a reader, even if you may be wrong or completely destroy the author's intention, you must expand your thinking as much as possible to get your own answer. People often say that the poet's skill lies outside the poem, but in fact, why should the poet's skill not be the same?
So what exactly is this "beast"? It seems hard to understand just by reading the first section. Maybe you will understand it after reading the following sections.
Throughout the whole poem, the images with the same position as "beast" in the following stanzas are "fish", "child", "self" and "bird". Correspondingly, when they disappeared, people's behaviors were "paving roads", "building ports", "building parks", "believing in the future" and "singing ignorantly". Maybe it’s hard to understand in other places, but this “belief in the future” couldn’t be more straightforward. "Self" disappeared from the crowd, and after that "people became very similar to each other", so this does not refer to the death of life, but that individuals as individuals cannot be separated from the collective of people in a broad sense and have "lost themselves into the crowd" "Yes. However, the "person" in the poem did not care, but chose to "continue to believe in the future." He ignored the disappearing sense of individuality and honor and just dreamed.
Then in the last paragraph, the "bird" disappeared. At least the people above can still dream and have a future they can believe in, but now even their dreams have disappeared. The image of "little bird" can easily make people think of the sky, heaven, and all the fairyland that humans can only hope to achieve. And it is precisely because this "bird" is so "small" that it forms a strong contrast with the vast and boundless sky, so it is endowed with a spirit of unremitting struggle towards dreams, ideal homes and bright futures. So now, even dreams and the spirit of chasing dreams have disappeared, what is left of "people"? I'm afraid there is only life left. But it doesn't matter, even if everything disappears, as long as this life is still there, we can still "continue singing ignorantly", what a great irony!
Of course, the reason why this "singing" is "ignorantly" is because it is not a spirit of optimism, or it is not a true spirit of optimism. Mr. Zhou Guoping once said: "The tragic aspect of life is an aspect that should not be avoided in any philosophy of life. Superficial optimism avoids this aspect, and false optimism covers up this aspect, which shows its superficiality and falsehood." It is more It is not what Nietzsche calls the "Dionysian spirit". Nietzsche emphasizes: "The affirmation of life even in its most strange and difficult problems, the will to life rejoices in its own inexhaustibility in the sacrifice of the highest type of life - I call this The spirit of Dionysus." And the "singing" in the poem is just an empty vent, which contains nothing, let alone the will of life? How can a person with a strong will to life let his life become just a life?
If I were asked to write an additional verse for this poem, maybe I would write like this:
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The day when life disappears from the earth
The earth stares into the distance silently
The days when life disappeared from the earth
People are still there, unchanged
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The writing is poor and difficult for everyone to discern. The reason why I want to add such a section is probably out of a mentality of eradicating the roots. The so-called "people" sometimes won't really wake up until they are pushed into a corner. Since it is going to disappear, then don’t leave anything behind, just give away your life too. Then, the greatest tragedy was born. "Man" was used to seeing the vicissitudes of life. Countless things disappeared before his eyes, until he himself also disappeared in the end, but "man" himself never changed at all.
To a certain extent, he also witnessed "eternity" with his own life.
So what this song "The Day the Bird Disappears in the Sky" wants to express is exactly what we, the so-called "people", must do before the hypothetical "day disappears" comes. But the author did not say what to do specifically. He did not need to and could not say it. Poetry is meant to leave room for readers to think, and what everyone has to do is different, so it cannot be generalized. As long as we can realize this, before the day comes when "the beast disappears", "the fish disappears", "the child disappears", "themselves disappear", "the bird disappears" and finally "life disappears" What...
By the way, what are the previous "beasts", "fish" and "children"? How do they relate to everything that follows? If according to the above idea, "self" is the personality and sense of honor of an individual, then "building a park" is really difficult to combine with it based on the progressive relationship of the context. So it might be better to look at it separately. And there is one detail worth noting, that is, what "people" do in the first three stanzas is a creative activity of "construction", but changes occur in the last two stanzas. From this point of view, "people" gain something else when something disappears.
Why does the street become more lively when children disappear on the street? Is it because people build parks? That's how it should be. "Child" has always been a simple and happy image, but "park" can also reflect happiness, so these two kinds of happiness are necessarily different. What people lose is the "simple joy" that satisfies their original intention, and what they gain is the bustling "happiness of desire". The nature of the before and after has changed. To put it simply, it changes from "simple" to "complex".
It may be clearer to read the first two sections according to this idea of ??gains and losses. Since both "road" and "port" have the function of promoting transportation, if the "road" in the first stanza means this, then the "port" in the second stanza can only be viewed from the perspective of "fishing" . In this way, in the first section, "man" loses "nature" and gains "order"; in the second section, he loses "long-term interests" and gains "short-term satisfaction"; plus the third section The plot loses its "simpleness" and becomes "complex", and a trajectory in which "people" are imprisoned, short-sighted and distorted is immediately apparent.
Man is falling.
Men became identical to one another through the Fall.
It seems to suddenly become clear. A thread from divergence to concentration runs through the entire poem, making the core of "disappearance" even more dazzling.
It's time to act, just like the lyrics in AKB48's "Beginner":
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Until the day it disappears...