On the Similarities and Differences between Bing Xin and Tagore's Two Poems on the Same Topic

Bing Xin's Paper Boat focuses on expressing his feelings for his mother, while Tagore's Paper Boat focuses on expressing his naive interest in childhood. Although the feelings expressed are slightly different, the similarities are obvious, from which we can see Tagore's great influence on Bing Xin.

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In Tagore's poem Paper Boat, the narrator "I" appears in every line; In a short poem with only 206 words in total, the narrator "I" * * * appeared 15 times. Bing Xin's Paper Boat establishes the narrative tone of the whole poem from the perspective of "I" at the beginning.

Draw lessons from the core image. Both poems take the paper boat as the core image and come from the pious paper boat. Tagore's poem describes "I put a paper boat in the rapids every day", which is a paper boat; Bing Xin's poem describes "I never refuse to throw away a piece of paper", which is an origami boat. The two poems express slightly different emotions. Bing Xin's "Paper Boat" bears the poet's love for his mother and the sadness caused by being far away from his mother. Tagore's Paper Boat bears the soul and fantastic hope of a lonely child who longs to be understood.

Draw lessons from dreams. Both poems have dreams. Tagore directly wrote the dream of "I", "I dreamed that my paper boat was floating slowly under the midnight starlight/the sleeping fairy was sitting on the boat with a basket full of dreams in her hand"; Bing Xin described her mother's dream like this. "If you see a small white boat in your dream, don't be surprised that it will dream for no reason. /This is your beloved daughter with tears in her eyes. /Wanshui Qian Shan, please carry her love and sorrow home. "