-a brief analysis of the content and form of Li Jinfa's Abandoned Wife
Since the May 4th Movement, the trend of western modernist literature and art began to permeate China's poems. Its leaders are Dai Wangshu, Li Jinfa, Feng Zhi and Xu Zhimo. Among these four people, Li Jinfa's poetic style is the most fantastic, dangerous and gloomy, with the deepest immersion in symbolism and the deepest exploration of ideological connotation. This point has been highlighted in his first novel "Abandoned Wife".
At the beginning of the poem, a few strokes outline a cynical, world-weary and far-away "abandoned wife image". "Before my long hair covers my eyes, I cut off all shameful and evil diseases, from the torrent of blood and the deep sleep of dead bones." It was really shocking. Then there are a series of overlapping images, such as night and mosquitoes, strong winds and so on. In order to vividly express the secular slander, unscrupulous condescension, sadness and fear of "abandoned wife" in every second, writing "abandoned wife" still "contains faint hope" (Lu Xun I know by Xu Shoushang), still pursuing purity and clarity, hoping to go back and forth with the spirit of God in the empty valley. However, her sadness is not understood and accepted by the secular world, and "only the wandering brain can be deeply branded" can only be entrusted to mountain springs and red leaves. The third section is the accumulation of several images, which paves the way for the depression and disappointment of "abandoned wife". The last section slides from disappointment to despair. She lingered beside the grave of her heart, holding back her tears and not decorating the world. At this point, the secular abandoned the "abandoned wife" and the "abandoned wife" also abandoned the secular. The poem "Abandoning a Wife" is different from previous "Abandoning a Wife" poems (such as "Meng" in The Book of Songs and "Going Up the Mountain to Pick Novelties" in Nineteen Ancient Poems). ). It not only describes the sadness of "abandoning a wife", but also reflects the author's own situation, which can be said to be confused, decadent and even reclusive among the young people at that time.
Abandoned Wife is the pioneering work of China's symbolic poetry. Although it is difficult, it does not stick to the model. It uses a lot of metaphors, symbols and other expressions, resulting in strange and magnificent images; Montage technique is also used to exchange and graft characters, and images and images are edited and reorganized, such as Xu Laili Walking with Mosquitoes at Night, Worries of Abandoning a Wife Accumulated in Action, and A Lament of an Aging Skirt. If "Abandoned Wife" is compared to a container, then the objects (poems) in this container are all free from each other, and some even overflow from the container, such as "or falling on the cliff with the mountain spring and then dying with the red leaves", "The fire of sunset can't turn the boredom of time into ashes and fly away from the smoke", and so on. These wonderful poems overflow. Some people condemn this obscure poetic style, but I don't think it is necessary to be too harsh. Poetry focuses on venting emotions. If you stick to the rules, you will be distorted. Reading poetry is no better than exegesis, and you don't have to understand it word for word, as long as you can understand it well. Eliot, an English poet, gave a speech at Oxford University. A student asked him, "Sir, what does your poem' Woman, three Bai Bao sitting under a juniper tree' mean?" Eliot replied, "I mean' woman, three Bai Bao are sitting under a juniper tree'." This is the most satisfactory answer.
Yuan Zhen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a series of poems to mourn his dead wife's empty house. On the day Mr. Chen Yinque commented, "Only truth is the only way to succeed." The "unique attainments" in Abandoned Wife are not only novel in form, but also true.