Hiroshi Kitahara [Japan]
A acacia tree is golden red,
Qiu Guang fell at night.
I'm worried about wearing unrequited pajamas,
Use a tugboat to go upstream by the river.
I can still smell your gentle sigh,
Ah! The golden red of acacia trees is falling everywhere.
(translated by Luo Xingdian)
Hiroshi Kitahara (1885—— 1942), born in Fukuoka Prefecture, is a Japanese symbolist poet. His poems are fresh and colorful in style and light in melody, paying attention to the role of emotional and sensory mobilization in describing the object, with strong decadent aesthetic taste. His poetry vocabulary is novel and natural, and he is known as "the magician of language". He is outstanding because of his poems. 19 1 1 year, when article world magazine conducted a nationwide opinion poll to select the "top ten Meiji writers", he jumped to the top. Representative poetry collections include Evil School, Memories and Tokyo Landscape Poetry. In addition, he also created a large number of short songs, ballads and nursery rhymes. The poem "Secret Love" is selected from the author's poetry collection "Tokyo Landscape Poetry" (19 13).
Unrequited love is a lyric poem describing 10 late autumn riverside. Because of its sad mood and Japanese ballads, it is widely loved by people and is known as one of the "Hundred Autumn Melodies".
"Robinia pseudoacacia" means Robinia pseudoacacia, a deciduous tree in Leguminosae, with stipules, odd pinnate compound leaves, opposite leaves and fragrant white and yellow flowers in early summer. The lyrics of "golden red on the locust tree" are full of profound chanting. It describes the colorful leaves of Sophora japonica, which are yellow and red in the bleak autumn wind, reflecting a picture full of desert and loneliness.
The emotional focus of this poem falls on the third line. "I am wrapped in my secret love pajamas", where the frustrated and melancholy psychology of secret love is mixed with the physiological sadness brought by the season, and people are lonely in the depths, from which a subtle emotion is brewed, revealing the unspeakable suffering of secret love. The phrase "I still hear your gentle sigh everywhere" is an illusion of chatting with * * * given by the infatuation and ecstasy of the person I think.
The author suffered many setbacks in his love life and was deeply influenced by love events. After moving to Mishi, Kanagawa Prefecture in a depressed mood, he published this poem.
The original text of this poem adopts the standard "5, 7, 5 laws", in which the charm of Japanese medieval ballads exists. Obviously, modern poetry and ancient short songs are intertwined. In addition, wonderful and carefully selected poems such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Chiruzona, Nei Lu, and Light of Water are brought together and played together with the expression of "5, 7 and 5 tones". In this regard, some scholars lamented: "We only heard novel and pleasant music for the first time in Bai Qiu's poems." Color (Feng Ye Fang Yan) can arouse people's emotions and express their feelings. In Beiyuan's poems, the colors of "gold" and "blue" (poetry "spring bird" and "golden blue") and the combination of "gold" and "red" are often used. "Gold" or yellow is a bright color; Red is a symbol of intensity and liveliness. In this poem, the author concocts a color tone suitable for expressing passion through the contrast and interconnection of the two colors of "Golden Red", which adds a strong artistic conception to the rhyme of the poem. Therefore, Unrequited Love has been highly praised, and it is worthy of being the representative work of Kitahara Bailu. In the preface of the collection of poems "Tokyo Landscape Poems", the author said: "During this period, various poetic styles broke ground one after another, sprouting green buds and crisscrossing, and finally creating a new poetic style based on folk songs (including folk songs, pop songs and folk songs)." As for the position of this poem in modern Japanese poetry, the poet Shiro Murano vividly pointed out: "The Secret Love of Kitahara is a commemorative bud in the new style folk songs."