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Green flames are swaying on the grass,
He longs to hug you, flower.
Against the background of the earth, flowers bloom,
When the warm wind blows trouble or joy.
If you are awake, open the window,
Look at how beautiful this garden full of desire is.
Under the blue sky, fascinated by eternal mystery.
It's our 20-year-old closed body,
Like the song of a bird made of clay,
You are ignited, curled up, curled up, but there is nowhere to turn.
Oh, light, shadow, sound and color are all naked,
Pain, waiting for a new combination.
As we all know, modernism has been in a relatively marginal position in the history of modern literature in China. It didn't get the grand courtesy like realism. Most people are skeptical, cautious and even exclusive about modernism. The nine-leaf school of poetry, represented by Mu Dan, actively tried modernist creative techniques. Mu Dan is undoubtedly one of the best. Xie Mian, a famous scholar in the field of China's new poetry research, called Mu Dan a "wolf child" in the field of China's new poetry in his book The Sun in the New Century. The reason why he is called "Wolf Child" in poetry is that his expression is too inconsistent with traditional norms. He dared to break the inertia thinking and mode, and presented a unique poetic style, so that he was regarded as an intolerable heresy by the literary world. Wang Zuoliang, Mu Dan's classmate at National Southwest Associated University, commented on him like this: "On the one hand, he is best at expressing the feelings of China intellectuals being tortured and tortured, on the other hand, his best quality is not China at all." From his excellent poems, we can see that his quality is deeply influenced by Eliot's "principle of impersonality", which embodies a strong sense of life, metaphysics and modernism. Not much to say below, let's enjoy one of his masterpieces, Spring.
The theme of this poem is "spring", but it is very different from the traditional theme of hurting spring. There is no old "romantic" image, romantic and vague artistic conception, and no surging and passionate poetry of Guo Moruo. In the poem "Spring", the poet is not concerned with the breath of spring that is booming outside, but with his inner longing and feeling for youth. The poet's theme is "spring", but in fact he wrote "youth". Mu Dan was just 24 years old when he wrote this song "Spring", which is the age when youth emotion and life consciousness collide and seek release. This poem is a manifestation of his spiritual feeling or life experience. The poet communicates the individual experience through images in the way of dialogue between mind and body, showing the unique feelings of young people when their lust is awakened by the maturity of their bodies, but they have not yet found a specific love object.
The first two sentences are "the green flame is swaying on the grass, and he is eager to hug you, Hua." Convey a strong impulse to life. The green flame is the wish of the grass, which longs to embrace the flowers. Some people understand this poem from the perspective of "desire" and compare flowers to "pure girls" The green flame symbolizes the author's budding youthful desire. Therefore, the first two sentences can be interpreted as this poem, which mainly shows the little boy's desire to awaken the girl's lust. However, I think this view is far-fetched. I think here, grass and flowers are a kind of existence in contrast to people, and the purpose of writing grass and flowers here is to form a strong contrast with the image of the lyric hero behind them. Grass and flowers represent natural spring. The first section focuses on natural springs. In the second section, the poet naturally transitioned to describe human youth. Natural spring forms a great contrast with human youth. Even the weak flowers and plants are fighting and venting their desires, but we humans have left our youth in our 20-year-old body. The poet aims to awaken our sleeping youth through objective and natural love. "If you are awake, open the window and see how beautiful this garden is." We can open the real window and see the garden full of desires, but if we want to see your inner desires, we must open the window of our hearts.
? "Under the blue sky, what is puzzled by the eternal mystery is our closed body for 20 years." The poet thinks that our bodies are closed because we are confused about the eternal mystery. So what does eternal mystery mean? The eternal mystery is the inner contradiction and conflict of life, which puzzles young people's pursuit of vitality and creativity. They are always ready to give love and long to be loved, but they can't. The contradiction between love and being loved is prominent, and the ignited passion cannot find another person to accept it and comfort it. This is the pain of the entanglement between sensibility and reason, and the pain of the collision between spirit and flesh. Being confused by the eternal mystery can only make us unable to put down our bodies, because we simply don't know where to put them.
"Like the song of a bird made of mud, you are lit, but there is nowhere to turn." Our bodies have nowhere to go, just like birds made of clay. How can those wings fly? How to sing that song? Thus, the poet expressed a kind of thinking about the ontology of life. The hopeless life of mankind is impulsive, but it is difficult to be happy, and finally it can only fall into a situation of "nowhere to return". However, have we always been so silently pessimistic and indifferent? Obviously not. "Oh, light, shadow, sound and color are all naked pains, waiting to enter a new combination." Our poet did not feel depressed and lonely because of this, but after experiencing the spiritual struggle of despair and emptiness, he learned from a painful experience and chose a more persistent and firm desire and pursuit. The poet is in a hopeless place of confusion and depression, waiting painfully for a new combination. This is the real spring of life. It is the highest peak of the poet's ideal. The poet's optimism and persistence in love, life and ideals infected us, and let us see the gorgeous brilliance of light, shadow and sound in the eyes full of tears. This is a great expression of beauty, a great expression of love and hope from the deep heart.
After careful analysis of this poem, let's look at its artistic characteristics. Different from traditional poetry, Mu Dan does not pay much attention to the rhythm and rhythm of poetry in this poem. On the contrary, he attaches great importance to the color expression of language. He reminds colorful words of life, and poetry comes from association. The poet solidified the theme of the whole poem with a series of vague images, prompting readers to think about the symbolic significance of these images, which is the uniqueness of this poem. In addition, the poet skillfully used many modernist techniques and techniques, such as skillfully using the method of john donne, a British metaphysical poet, to think with the senses of the body, "a closed body at the age of 20" and "light, shadow, sound and color are naked, painfully waiting for a new combination", which unified the sensory description of metaphysics with the philosophical speculation of metaphysics and made it unique. Secondly, "the images in the poem are very strange", such as "green flame" and "the song of a bird made of mud", and I have to admire the poet's imagination. This novel metaphor and strange image were rare at that time.
Mu Dan, a poet, is known as "the earliest poet who consciously tended to modernism in the 1940s" and the "wolf child" in China's modern poetry circle. He writes youth and life with his pen and tirelessly calls for love and hope. His works not only have the heavy suffering and tenacious spirit in praise, but also have the love "spring" carefully constructed in spring. Mu Dan's poetry, as a boring modern Chinese poetry circle in China, has injected a kind of spring power, although this hope for spring was ruthlessly stifled shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was not until the 1980s that the Nine Leaves Poetry School reappeared in people's field of vision like unearthed cultural relics, and Mu Dan's modernist tradition began to be widely explored and absorbed by people. Mu Dan's early Spring represents his thoughts on that era when he was young. As we know, Mu Dan also wrote a poem with the same name in his later years, showing a different life consciousness from that in his youth. We can see that a disabled old man who has experienced a lifetime of storms has the best memories and hopes for this world. "With the past riots echoed at a distance, only for an instant, I sadly cherish the attack of this life ..."
Mu Dan, a "wolf child" in China's new poetry world, has been waiting, creating with his lifelong interest and waiting for his spring.