Author's brief introduction Ayukawa Nobuo (1920 ——1986), a representative poet of Japanese postwar wasteland school. His real name is Takashi Uemura, and he was born in Toyokawa-CHO, Takada, Koishikawa District, Tokyo. After graduating from Waseda Middle School, he was admitted to Waseda No.1 University and began to write poems. In his early years, he published poems and comments in the poetry publications "Moon" and "New Territories" and participated in the establishment of the poetry publication "Wasteland" centered on Waseda University students, which laid a solid foundation for his post-war literary activities. 1September, 942, he was drafted into the army, dropped out of the English Department of Waseda University, reported to the Fourth Wing of the East Army Guards Infantry, and was sent to the Pacific battlefield to participate in the Battle of Sumatra. 1945 was sent back to Kanazawa Army Hospital for rest at the beginning of this year. During his convalescence, he wrote Notes in War. These notes are the starting point of Ayukawa Nobuo's postwar literary thought and poetry creation. /kloc-0 was discharged from hospital in April, 1945 and returned to Tokyo in February, 65438. 1946 started his literary activities. 1947, Ayukawa Nobuo, together with Nakafukang, Takaichi Tamura, Taro Kitamura, Toyichiro Miho and Hihiko Kuroda, re-founded the poetry magazine "Wasteland". The Wasteland School is the earliest and most influential school in postwar orthodox poetry, and Ayukawa Nobuo is one of its representative writers. He is the author of Dead Man, Soldiers of God, Grave at Sea, In Saigon, Why My Hand … Is Outside the Harbor, Lonely Navigation Mark, etc. The famous poem "The Dead" (1947) is the representative work of the Wilderness School poetry, which fully embodies the ideological basis of the Wilderness School poets. Complete works of Ayukawa Nobuo, published by wasteland society, 1965. Ayukawa Nobuo's poetry anthology is included in the commentary collection, which was published by Thought Society 1964.
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A dead man
Clouds,/footsteps,/like footsteps,/the executor of your last words,/will appear. /Everything starts here!
Recalling yesterday,/in a gloomy hotel,/we were sitting in chairs,/pulling a long face. Recall our old friends/discuss our poetry magazines. /-I realized it only after a narrow escape:/That's just empty talk.
Morikawa Jun! Every time I pick up a razor, the cold light reminds me of yesterday's blue sky. /But I have forgotten when you disappeared under the blue sky. /Short student days-/Editing, publishing,/words of encouragement. /that golden age has passed,/everything has become a record of the past.
Yesterday was fine,/Today is fine,/Our days will always be late autumn. /"Lonely Autumn Leaves",/This sound is directed at the crowd,/at the streets,/at the graphite road,/floating around.
On the day you were buried,/no one saw you off,/there was silence around. /No anger,/No sadness,/Only a restless mind. /Looking up at the blue sky,/"Everything sinks,/The sun and the sea!" /You are lying quietly,/Your feet are in your boots. /Morikawa Jun, Morikawa Jun buried underground! /The cut on your chest,/Does it still hurt?
Song of Little Mary
Go ahead,/Little Mary! /I am with you,/on this distant road. /The roadside is full of branches and leaves,/Flowers are in full bloom,/Give them to us,/Laugh and laugh all the way. /The sun raised us with blood and tears. /Even if dark days come,/we won't be depressed. /Singing love songs loudly,/Go straight on this road.
Sing along,/Little Mary! /Although you are still babbling,/Although you are still full of childishness,/We are singing to your rhythm. /Singing resounds through endless fields,/Singing goes straight to Lin Hai's head. /Millions of people gathered there,/listened attentively,/were filled with joy,/and marched with this song. /Sing a song and move forward. /Little Mary!
Appreciation of Works The Dead was published in the February issue of Pure Poetry (1947). This is a commemorative poem written for the poet Yoshinobu Morikawa. Yoshinobu Morikawa was a fan of the pre-war poetry magazine "The Wasteland" and died in the battlefield of Myanmar in the Pacific War. "The executor of your last words" in the poem is a metaphor, which personifies the will to carry out Morikawa's last words. As for the last words, it is not Morikawa's specific wishes, but his sympathy for a generation of young people who were buried in the golden age during the war, including the poet's own expectations for the next generation. We should truthfully tell the next generation what we saw and heard on the battlefield, as well as our personal fears, sorrows and worries, so that they will always remember this painful lesson in Japanese history. This is the basic idea of the dead, and it is also the declaration of wasteland poetry. "Talking about our poetry periodicals" in the poem refers to the discussion of poetry periodicals such as The Waste Land and The Moon by colleagues in the waste land before the war, which, like the "student era" and "golden age" in the poem, is a review of the pre-war poetry activities. The poet thinks that their activities have not played any role, let alone stopped this unjust war, so they are "empty talk". The line of "Lonely Autumn Leaves" in the poem originated from the artistic conception of autumn by German existentialist poet Rilke (1975- 1926). And "everything sinks, the sun and the sea!" It is the poet's painful inner monologue, which shows Ayukawa Nobuo's resentful and even nihilistic mentality. The Dead, published in the early postwar period, is regarded as a milestone in the development of wilderness poetry, which has two distinct characteristics of wilderness poetry creation. First, it reflects that this war has left deep scars on the minds of a generation of young people. Poetry is a metaphor for war survivors, which contains the poet's own dark psychological state. They know themselves and reality in the battlefield of blood and fire and the ruins after the war, and then form a special spiritual temperament. During the war, countless Japanese youths were caught up in the battlefield by militarists, and quite a few of them were killed by the war. This poem reveals that death stems from war violence, which is itself an indictment of the evil war of aggression. This feeling of wasteland poets has certain sociality. Second, it reflects the poet's confusion and anxiety in the turbulent period after the war. Wilderness poets returned to the devastated motherland from the battlefield filled with smoke, and faced with the chaotic social reality after the war, their joy of survival and yearning for a better life were increasingly shattered. All they have is painful memories of history, and they can't see the prospect of changing reality, so they can't help but roar in despair: "Everything has sunk." Song of Little Mary was published in Poems of the Wasteland published by 1954. Compared with the dead, the poet took a big step forward emotionally. Because of the development of the times, Japan has carried out relatively thorough democratic reforms. By 1954, the national economic recovery period has ended and vigorous economic modernization is about to begin. At this time, people have felt that everything around them seems to be bright, "not after the war." Under this background, based on the experience of war, the poet continued to write about the disintegration of the old self and the birth of the new self, pointing out that the mission of war survivors is to write the new history that began after the war. In this sense, Song of Little Mary is a lyric poem with strong thoughts, which creates a magnificent artistic conception of striding forward.