A bird
Fall on the pine branches,
Chirp and sing.
It suddenly stood upright like an arrow.
Fly far away,
Become slim in singing.
A bird is a piece of wood.
Good at singing, accompanied by loud singing,
Burn it alive.
Look up: empty.
Only silence
Shake on a branch.
Pas, a Mexican poet, is a master of language and regards language as life. Many of his poems are painstaking and have always been known for their obscurity. But Paz also left us some simple poems with childhood colors and hearts, which enabled us to spy on many different aspects of Paz's mind. Branches is a good example.
Branches also let us appreciate the poet's style and language. But in this poem, Pass did not deliberately pursue the language effect. In fact, the master is a master because we can't see the traces of carving. A bird, which landed on a pine branch, chirped, with a bright rhythm and clear language, like a child's song. But in an instant, the bird flew away and the song became hazy. Then, in the third season, Pass played his unique imagination, comparing birds to singing sawdust, and vividly played a special role in the flight of birds and the sublimation of life. It is the language effect of Pass that makes the trees, birds and flames in the poem perfectly intertwined, interdependent and singing to each other. Pass is like this, full of love and respect for these very ordinary things.
For Paz, it was a moment when a drop of water fell, a moment when a bird flew, and a moment when it was lost in a short childhood. Everything that happened at this moment was magical and inexplicable. If another bird falls on the tree, it's just another bird to Paz. The poet, like a guessing child, is immersed in this world of gain and loss, and the lost is recovered. In this poem, Pass praises the magic in ordinary things and makes us realize that the life course of birds is as great as that of people. Pass wrote at the end, as if the bowstring of the poem was broken, and that magical arrow of thought hit him, and we were deeply impressed by the poet. Octavio Paz, Octavio Paz, (19 14- 1999), Mexican poet and essayist, 1990 won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His main works are Sunstone (195 1), Hui (197 1), Inward Growing Tree (1987) and so on. Since the long poem Sunstone was translated into Chinese and published, China readers have known a world-class great poet and world-class great works.