Author: Xu Zhimo
"Accidental" is a poem written by modern poet Xu Zhimo in May 1926. This poem is mainly about the poet's profound understanding of life and emotion. In this poem, the poet expressed his sigh for the disappearance of love and beauty, and also revealed his concern for these beautiful feelings. This poem is not only a simple love poem, but also a sigh of life, full of interesting philosophy. The whole poem has two paragraphs and ten lines, which are symmetrical from top to bottom. It is not only beautiful and catchy, but also memorable and meaningful.
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once in a while
I am a cloud in the sky,
Occasionally projected into your heart—
You shouldn't be surprised,
There's no need to be happy-
It disappeared in an instant.
You and I met in the dark sea,
You have yours, I have mine, direction;
You remember it well,
You'd better forget,
The light that shines on each other at this intersection! ?
This poem is not only a simple love poem, but also contains a sigh of life. Clouds and water are separated by Wan Li. Occasionally, a beautiful cloud image is projected at the center of the wave, but it disappears in a flash. Ships sailing at sea meet in the dark, but each has its own direction, meet by chance, but leave in a hurry. Life is like this. Everyone has their own fixed life trajectory. Meeting is accidental, but the other side of life is inevitable. There are many accidents in the journey of life, such as the love met at the corner and the fate formed by the encounter, but these accidental love and fate are just a flash in the pan, coming in a hurry and going in a hurry, and then returning to their own life trajectories and moving on.
For these accidental love and fate, people don't need happiness, but it's better to forget, because everyone has their own direction and people can't change their lives, so forget it, forgetting the intersection is the light that releases each other. This is the helplessness of life, but it is also the best choice in life. Only without attachments can we move on, and there are more accidents on the road ahead. If every accidental encounter is accompanied by you and your heart is concerned, then life will deviate from the track and you will not be able to reach the inevitable other shore.
In this poem, Xu Zhimo conveys emotional restraint. He said it was best to forget the light released by that meeting, which was a strangulation of accidental feelings. Xu Zhimo returned to China with European and American romanticism, combined with eastern and western civilizations, and finally formed his own aesthetic poetry style.
But this poem suppresses the beauty of accidental meeting, which is caused by the changes of the times. Xu Zhimo is in the darkest era, and he can't escape the ugliness and struggle inherent in this era. He couldn't deviate from the established life track, so he reluctantly chose to suppress his inner feelings and forget the accidental meeting. However, accepting life finally made Xu Zhimo know how to let go, so he said, "If you remember, you'd better forget."