-a fish or a woman said.
I want the shape of your arm,
I tend to blend in with the lines of water.
You really love me like a mirror,
You and I are far apart, but we have fish fossils.
First of all, from the subtitle of the poem (a fish or a woman said:), we can know the hint left by the author. The protagonist of this poem is a fish or a woman, and fish and women are actually in a parallel relationship. The author compares a fish to a woman.
I want the shape of your arm. In this poem, "I" and "the shape of your arm" are opposites. "The shape of your arm" is what I want to be, because it matches you best and conforms to your fantasy of the other half. It's like when you like someone, you can't help imagining that you can become what he likes, and you will have a false sense of identity in your heart, that is, you can only get his love if you become what he likes.
"I tend to melt in the lines of water" and express the love between men and women with the classical image of "love between fish and water". The relationship between fish and water is intimate and natural. Fish can swim around in the water on their own initiative, and it depends on their own wishes to float to the surface or dive to the bottom. However, the fish in this poem has a passive color. Instead of swimming freely, it caters to the lines of water and melts itself in the lines of water. The "I" here is a fish on the surface, but in fact it symbolizes the hero in the poem-a woman. When you love someone too much, you will often lose yourself and be guided by the lifestyle of the person you love, so as to integrate yourself into his will and life.
"You really love me like a mirror", this poem reveals that it is still my love for you through the relationship between the mirror and people. And you, like a mirror, love for "me" is a kind of mechanical care. In ancient Greek mythology, Nakassos, a Chinese and American teenager, stayed by the water every day, silently watching his beauty in the water, and finally died in the haggard shadow. Naxos' behavior can be understood as "narcissism", although he doesn't know that the image in the water is himself. Only narcissism is true love. Psychologists point out that people love others, but their own "mirror image." The metaphor in the poem is probably: I love you as my mirror image, and you love me as a mirror. This kind of love is just an illusion, not real love.
"You and I are far away, but there are fish fossils", from the sea to mulberry fields, from fish to fish fossils. When fish becomes fossils, fish is no longer the original fish. This shows that I am not who I used to be, and my love for you is changing. From liking you and wanting to be what you like, to loving you, you follow your rhythm and rhythm, and finally this love fades with time, leaving only a memory.
The Book of Changes says: "The new day is called Shengde, and life is called Yi". The so-called "innovation" and "living" are constantly changing and updating. Everything is constantly changing, and I just fell in love with a temporary you. And what can last forever in this change is just loving your memory. This memory, like turning fish into stone, has become an eternal memorial.