This content comes from the poem "Afternoon of the Shepherd". Afternoon of the Faun is a poem written by Stéphane Mallarmé. The representative work of symbolism poetry.
Evaluation: Afternoon of the Faun occupies a unique position in the history of poetry. It, Rambo's Drunk Boat and Valery's Young Goddess of Destiny are representative works of symbolic poetry. Moreover, according to Valery's evaluation, it is still "the undisputed most beautiful poem in French literature".
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This masterpiece, which combines symbolism, suggestion and dream, was created by Malamei from 1865, and was not published until 1876 eleven years later. The first draft was called "Pastoral Improvisation", later changed to "Monologue of Teaching God", and finally named "Pastoral Afternoon". The whole poem is written in the form of lyrical monologue of the pastoral god asking himself and answering himself.
The hero of this poem, the god of agriculture and animal husbandry, comes from Roman mythology. He has a horn on his head and a leg of lamb below his waist. He is a god who is half man and half sheep, in charge of agriculture and animal husbandry. He lives between Shan Ye and has a dissolute nature. In mythology, the shepherd pursues a water fairy (or Lin Ze fairy), and the fairy has nowhere to hide and turns into a reed. Since then, shepherds have used reeds as flutes, relying on reed flutes to express their feelings, and formed an indissoluble bond with reed flutes.
The environment described in the poem is Sicily in southern Italy. It was a hot summer afternoon, the air was sultry, the wind was unbearable, and the spring water was almost dry. How tempting it would be to hear the cool gurgling sound! The heat in summer makes the god of agriculture and animal husbandry sleepy. In his drowsiness, he suddenly heard the splash of pearls and saw the beautiful scenery of water fairies playing in the water.
But is this a dream or a wake-up, a real experience, an empty wish, or an "illusion of rose ideal"? He couldn't figure it out anyway. Although I feel very clear, the air is very sleepy, so I still leave a lot of questions.
Malarme said, "If you want to keep something sacred, you have to keep yourself shrouded in mystery." Therefore, the poet used changeable images and evasive language here to create a vague artistic conception.
Perhaps in this sultry afternoon, there was no gurgling sound at all, only the sound of reed flute spread all over Shan Ye and became "dry rain". However, this is not like a dream. The shore of Sicily can testify that it was not a flock of swans but a group of daffodils that were scared away by the reed flute, and the pain left in the shepherd's chest can also prove that his experience is not empty.
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