This is a very theoretical and colorful speech. This feature comes from Qian Zhongshu's metaphor.
For example, in order to show that critics should take the object of their comments seriously, the author wrote that "people with literary conscience and discernment are like serious scientists, avoiding high hats and empty words such as generalizations." Only "literary conscience and discrimination" and "like a serious scientist" are enough to illustrate the importance of the author's point of view.
In order to illustrate the development law of China's poetry, the author made a corresponding analogy with the development of Chinese painting. "For example, in China's paintings, the technology of objective portraits is still underdeveloped, but the style of' pure painting' like' impressionism' and' post-impressionism' has long existed." Can be said to be a mystery. For this extraordinary state of development, Qian Zhongshu's wonderful metaphor of one hundred solved the big problem.
In order to illustrate the conciseness of China's poems, the author used a western phrase "flying kites lightly", which was used lightly and freely.
"If shoes form feet, feet also form shoes; Poetic style may be the product of poetic heart, which adapts to the needs of poetic heart. Compared with western poets, China poets can only be regarded as sculptors with cherry stones and two-inch ivory squares. But short poems can have far-reaching meanings, and contraction does not hinder extension, as if to see farther, and each eyebrow and eye puckered. " This metaphor explains the truth more deeply. Compared with "China's poetry chose its poetic style to express needs"
Others, such as comparing the "proportion" of China's poems to "cobwebs are like barbed wire" and "only playing the flute", and comparing the wildness of China's poems to "civilized people's words, and it is a conversation, not a speech, as quiet and thin as the voice of conscience-but anyone with conscience can hear them", are extremely attractive.