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From tomorrow on, I want to be a happy person;
Comb hair, chop wood and travel around the world.
From tomorrow on, I will care about food and vegetables.
Living in a house facing the sea, spring is blooming.
From tomorrow on, write to everyone I love.
Tell them my happiness,
What did the lightning of happiness tell me,
I will distribute it to each of them.
Give every river and mountain a warm name.
Stranger, I will also wish you happiness.
I wish you a bright future!
May you lovers get married!
May you be happy on earth.
I only want to face the sea and spring blossoms.
"From tomorrow on, be a happy person" seems to indicate that the poet wants to create a happy life on earth, but the poet refuses to interfere with life with practical actions. "Starting from tomorrow" means the break of time, and the gap between the past and the present seems to mean the change of posture and eyes; "Starting from tomorrow", the tone is firm, like a simple teenager making up his mind. However, the rational and conscious spiritual exploration chosen by the poet cannot be easily interrupted.
To be a happy person, the poet, as an independent person, naturally has the freedom to choose life, and he can choose to feel "happiness". The "happiness" here is limited to the meaning of daily life, which mainly refers to satisfying daily desires (material and emotional) and enjoying secular happiness, such as "feeding horses", "chopping wood", "traveling around the world" and communicating with relatives. In the process of "caring about food and vegetables", we can feel the content of enjoying material happiness and relaxing daily life, and the satisfaction of desire is likely to be close to happiness. Judging from the superficial meaning of poetry, it seems that the poet is getting out of the heavy shackles of himself and trying to understand, accept and integrate into the "happiness" that "everyone" can understand; But there are also many contradictions. In the poet's mind, this kind of "happiness" is more a process of being experienced, which is far from the ideal realm that the poet strives to pursue-"happiness" is still a thing (process) that is equivalent to secular happiness and pursued in the "earth".
Tell them my happiness. "Speaking" means communicating with people and discussing feelings and experiences about happiness. "That happy lightning told me/I will tell everyone", which simply expresses an experience: the "happiness" we can feel is often as short as lightning and fleeting; At the moment of "happiness", that feeling is like lightning hitting the heart, which brings great impact.
Such passion even triggered the romantic imagination and impulse of the poet to give every river and mountain a "warm name", showing a gesture of "approaching" and "being close". "In Haizi's view, due to the deformity of modern civilization, people have increasingly lost the ability to feel life as a miracle, both in their time and in their historical memory situation. So he thinks it is his responsibility to help us regain our sensitivity to life through poetry. All kinds of wonderful and passionate emotions permeated in Haizi's lyric poems are related to this aesthetic judgment. " Therefore, this closeness is more of a dialogue with the inner consciousness of self-life. In this way, the poet is still concerned with abstract propositions, with metaphysical direction and self-endowed sense of mission and sacredness, and reveals his true loneliness in the superficial closeness.
"I have a house facing the sea, and the flowers are blooming in spring." The poet imagines that he has such a house where he can feed horses and chop firewood, care about food and vegetables (in real life-his position in the world), and a posture and space that transcends life and overlooks the sea (beyond the ideal shore of the world). This sentence appears at the end of the first chapter of the poem, expressing the desire to integrate into the daily happiness of the world and keep metaphysical observation and thinking; But at the end of the third chapter, the same sentence, with the word "I only wish", expresses another choice. Facing the sea and facing away from the world, he gave the blessing of "happiness on earth" to "strangers" (or "everyone"), and he still stuck to his space and posture.