The style of poetry and the edge of thought
——Reading Zeng Zhuo's "The Tree on the Edge of the Cliff"
Li Xiaobo
The author puts his life Condensed into a tree, we use this unique metaphor to tell people: Life is like a tree, destined to endure many storms of love alone. A happy ending often comes after a thrilling experience. The key is that we have enough perseverance and courage to fight. , go and fight!
Looking at the whole poem, the author does not seem to have great sadness or joy. The description of the scene and the lyricism are plain and eloquent, but the reading is very fresh and natural, and he seems to have realized some true meaning of life.
Appreciation;
If your life is on a cliff, how should you face life? Then be this tree: fly in the face of adversity!
Zeng Zhuo began writing poetry at the age of seventeen. During the Anti-Japanese War, he was one of the "July School" poets active in the poetry world. Before liberation, he published the collection of poems "Gate" and the long poem "Mother", which truly recorded the arduous journey of intellectual youths in the rear areas pursuing light during the Anti-Japanese War. In 1955, he was forced to put down his writing due to the "Hu Feng Incident". In the new era, he finally regained his political life and took up poetry again to sing for the new era. The collection of poems "Tree on the Edge of the Cliff" published in 1981 had a huge impact because of its ability to sincerely reveal his emotions and soul world. Reading these unpretentious poems, we can feel the loneliness and pain of a soldier after being abandoned by the collective, as well as the joy and excitement of regaining acceptance. It allows us to imagine the waves that stirred up in his emotional world and philosophical realm.
Sincere feelings and vivid images are the main characteristics of Zeng Zhuo's poetry. His masterpiece "Tree on the Edge of the Cliff" uses a "tree about to fall into a deep valley" as a backdrop to create an image of an unyielding warrior who is attacked by strong winds and lives tenaciously near the cliff. Although this tree on the edge of the cliff was blown "to the cliff near the deep valley" by "some unknown strange wind", and its body was bent into the "shape of the wind", lonely and painful, it still seemed like "Spread your wings and fly"...Obviously, this tree is a symbol of the image of countless revolutionaries who have been wronged. The absurd years and weird things that happened in the past left too deep a mark on the poet's soul, so the poet integrated his strong sense of history and times into his innocent heart and sang this bitter and yet heart-warming song. Deep song.
Poetry is actually the reappearance of the poet's soul and the manifestation of the poet's soul. From this perspective, "Tree on the Edge of the Cliff" also shows the upright and unyielding character of the poet Zeng Zhuo. As thinkers and poets, in today's materialistic era, this kind of ethics is particularly important for poets. Only Pure Land poets who protect their souls can create noble poetry. However, many poets have lost or deformed this ethics, and have regarded dissolute behavior or playing with the muse as a fashion, making the creation of holy poetry increasingly secular and superficial. Because of this, it is even more necessary to revisit the character and personality of the old poets.
"The tree on the edge of the cliff" "stands there alone", "appears lonely and stubborn", this lonely image first enters the reader's mind, giving people a distinct impression and broad scope. Imagine. Ai Qing, an old poet from Zhenghuo, said, "There is no poetry without imagination." "The most important talent of a poet is the use of imagination" ("Ai Qing Talks about Poetry"). Only with an upright personality and high artistic accomplishment can a poet have the ability to A noble and vivid imagination. This "tree" is like a lonely old man who has gone through many vicissitudes of life, who has suffered all kinds of injustices and hardships, and "seems to be about to leap into the deep valley", but he "seems to be about to spread his wings and fly". A person who is not full of longing and hope, loyal and trusting in the future would never be able to imagine a soaring image. This is just like what the famous poetry critic Zhao Guotai said involves an issue of "the moral image of the poet". This kind of "morality" requires the poet's spirit to ascend to the realm of life that is true, good and beautiful.
Many excellent poets. He is famous for his unique moral image, such as Ai Qing's "torch" image, Gong Liu's "camel" image, and Mr. Zeng Zhuo's moral image is such an "old sailor" who is as stubborn as a tree on the edge of a cliff. ". Just as Mr. Zhao Guotai commented on Mr. Zeng in a short article, "At the stage of life, the giant teeth once gnawed at his muse's heart, but he had morality in his chest, drummed in the river, faced social life, With an embrace that reaches the end of the world, and a voice with its own body temperature, he calls for the ideal of a bright and high shore. "Zeng Lao used "tree" as a moral image, which means that he suffered a huge blow in all aspects of his body and mind. We will not sink or compromise. We must still face life and history with a fiery heart and pursue the bright and future. Let latecomers learn from past mistakes and point out the way forward. This is the power of the poet's proud character.
In the poem "Tree on the Edge of the Cliff", "tree" is just an entry point. It incorporates the poet's rich life experience, using things to embody people, borrowing things to make people happy, and giving people a sense of happiness. Deep association and understanding. In this regard, Mr. Zeng Zhuo also showed the edge of a thinker. It enables people to see alert and enlightening thoughts from concrete poems. Reading this poem gives us a deep understanding that there is no clear gap between poetry and thinking, and we can discover the philosophy hidden in it through the imagery of the poem.
The view that regards poetry and reason as absolute opposites can only lead to the superficiality of poetic content and shallow thinking.
The tree on the edge of the cliff that "stands there alone / looking lonely and stubborn" is not only the figure of the innocent revolutionary but also the symbol of the poet Zeng Zhuo's arrogant and fiery character and character. image. It is precisely with this kind of spiritual outlook that Mr. Zeng can withstand the wind and rain and write one after another such fresh and philosophical poems as "The Tree on the Edge of the Cliff" by Zeng Zhuo in 1981
When When I was young,
in the ocean of life, I occasionally looked up
Looking at sixty years old was like looking at a distant port in a foreign country
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I have experienced violent storms and turbulent waves
Now I have arrived,
Sometimes I look back at my youth,
It’s like I am lost in smoke. Hometown
Zeng Zhuo’s song "I Look Away" expresses his feelings about life. Its characteristics are:
1. Comparison between the past and the present, and loops and loops. When you are young, you look forward to being old; when you are old, you look forward to being young. Life is a circle drawn between two "looks from a distance", the comparison between the past and the present, and the transformation of time and space.
2. The metaphor is exquisite, harmonious and appropriate. The central metaphor of sailing is used throughout the poem; life is compared to the "ocean", and "sixty-year-old" is naturally a "port in a foreign country" compared to the young "me", mysterious and full of lure. The joys and sorrows on the road of life are of course just like the "storms and rough seas" in sailing. These metaphors are closely connected and harmoniously unified, forming a chain of metaphors with rich meanings and swaying colors, which are natural, appropriate, and exquisitely expressive.
3. The artistic conception is profound and thought-provoking. Although this poem is short, the philosophy it expresses is thought-provoking: we must bravely rush into the future and pursue our ideals, but we must also cherish every moment along the way. Only in this way can we look back on the past with no regrets.