Tonight, the moon is more worried and tired,
like a beautiful woman leaning on layers of clouds,
in a trance, caressing her undulating breasts with gentle hands
before going to sleep.
She is haggard and weak, and she can't help but burst into coma on her satin back in a soft avalanche.
Her eyes flitted across this white fantasy, and
It looked like a million flowers reaching the sky.
A teardrop condenses leisure and sorrow.
It runs down her cheek and drops to the world.
A pious poet wakes up alone all night,
Catch this pale tear with his palm-
A broken jade reflects a rainbow-like brilliance,
Keep it in his heart and keep it away from the eyes of the sun.
(translated by Fei Bai)
Appreciation
The second sentence of this poem, "Like a beauty leaning on layers of clouds", can be regarded as a simile or personification in rhetoric, but after reading the whole article, we can see that this "worry about the moon" is neither a simile to express people's worries, nor a lyrical personification, but a poet's. As Baudelaire said: "Everything: form, movement, number, color and fragrance are meaningful in both the spiritual world and the natural world, and they can cross, reverse and communicate with each other." This famous theory of correspondence opens up a brand-new three-dimensional space for modern poetry art, which breaks the traditional linear narrative mode and focuses on the correspondence, synaesthesia and correspondence between subject and object. In this song "Sorrow of the Moon", we not only feel jathyapple's softness, lightness and dreaminess, but also appreciate the moon's melancholy, tiredness, emaciation and weakness, and the tears of resentment flowing down her cheeks. This little-known or ordinary people can hardly find the "worry about the moon" even when they look squarely at the moon, which is exactly the mysterious truth that Baudelaire thinks is hidden under the curtain of reality, so only "a pious poet wakes up alone all night,/catches this pale tear with his palm-"he is willing to show this mysterious truth to everyone. And if we really want to know the world, we need to be sympathetic and compatible with the potential meaning of the real world with our own hearts, just like this poet.
This poem represents Baudelaire's aesthetic views. Baudelaire expressed dissatisfaction and criticism to the real society in his masterpiece "Flowers of Evil", but he sought to expose the ugliness of society and human nature with beautiful artistic forms. This poem is exquisite and beautiful in image, composition, color and phonology, with a strong aesthetic color. The European symbolism poetry school initiated by Baudelaire tried to find a new way out of romanticism and realism. They despised the subjective ideal of romanticism without realistic foundation by facing life and avoiding ugliness, and at the same time mocked the realist writers who could not see through the objective world with the mutual agreement of subjectivity and objectivity. The innovation of symbolism poets in artistic expression really injected new vitality and hope into the world literary world in the 2th century. Secondly, the poem ends with a symbolic allusion to "the eyes of the sun". Although Baudelaire described the ugliness of society and human nature on a large scale as never before, he implied that even though the poet's works are not as bright as the sun, the broken jade in the poet's heart can "reflect the rainbow-like brilliance", that is, the poet will express the "ugly" society and life with an inner "beautiful" attitude and "good" emotion. Jathyapple in this poem "The Sorrow of the Moon" not only has "leisure and hatred" in her heart, but also the poet's shocking brushwork makes the "beauty" of the Moon somewhat tired and trance, but the poet does not guide us to "appreciate" her, but implies in a tortuous way that the chastity and tranquility that the moon should have now disappeared, and "beauty" is just like the poet.
When Baudelaire regarded the subjective world as more "real" than the objective world and tried to discover the mysterious truth of things hidden under the curtain of reality, he not only established the independent consciousness of art, but also created a fictional world different from (often higher than) the real world. And from this, he also expanded the implication and association of poetic language to an unprecedented density. This song "Worry about the Moon" is concise and concentrated in tone, rigorous and harmonious in phonology, and the whole picture is full of fantasy and strange thoughts. Images not only have the prominent effect that can be touched, but also condense the subtle and secretive subjective ideas, which arouse the readers' unheard-of magical scenes and urge us to explore the poet's hidden meaning and the mystery of life.
(Pan Yihe)