The greatest feature of poetry lies in the technique of complementary opposites. Success and never success, sweetness and bitterness, victory and failure are completely opposite. But if you lose one of them, the other one loses its meaning. This is exactly the same as China's Taoist thought. Laozi once said in the Tao Te Ching: "It is difficult to complement each other, and the length is different, and the height is oblique." He also said: "Flexion is complete, waste is straight, depression is surplus, and I am new." Either side needs to experience it through the other side. Isn't this the philosophy of the universe? This is true at all times and in all countries. Success will only be cherished if it has not been successful, and the feeling of repeated success has long been numb. Those who master the banner of victory today are not as profound as those who are defeated.
However, what else do these extraordinary poems contain? Don't tell us such a simple truth? As long as you spread your imagination, maybe you will realize more connotations of poetry. Does poetry also mean that people always envy what they never have or can't get, but ignore what is already in front of them? Does it mean that we all cherish the first time in our lives? Because only before the first time, we never had it before, which made people have such a strong desire. Dickinson's other poem, Soul Choose a Partner, can be used as evidence. It reads: "The soul chose its partner/then closed the door/her sacred decision/no longer allowed to interfere ... I know that she chose one from a large population of a nation/closed the valve of concern/like a stone." Isn't this the "sage holds the wind of the world"? So, we have to go back to Lao Tzu. Laozi believes that "five colors make people blind, five tones make people deaf, and five flavors make people cool". Those who have seen all the color, heard all the sound and tasted all the taste have lost the ability to truly grasp the connotation of color, sound and taste. In other words, only by never being influenced by foreign objects and keeping the soul pure and ethereal can it lose its ability to feel foreign objects. So Lao Tzu said, "Elephants are invisible." At the end of the poem, I wrote "I missed my ears/I heard the music of victory in the distance/I was so sad and loud". Isn't it a wonderful note? 1/ Does the poem also mean "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but I am only in this mountain"? Always successful, how can we appreciate the happiness brought by success? When we are always in a certain state, we will feel more and more numb to it, unable to recognize ourselves and make an accurate grasp of that state. As the saying goes, there is no double happiness. In fact, in the same way, we will get used to suffering when we are suffering. The so-called "staying in Lan Zhi's room and not smelling its fragrance for a long time" is another implicit philosophical thinking in poetry. Does poetry also mean that imagination always transcends reality and always has a greater influence on people's minds than reality? The sweetness of unexpected hope is doubly sweet; And the fear that doesn't happen is a double fear.
The imagination space contained in the future is higher than the sky and wider than the sea, only for Dickinson, an imaginary poet, to gallop freely. Although Di Shi's poems are rich in connotation and passionate, she lived a lonely and self-controlled life and lived a nun-like life, almost never leaving home for decades. There is a strong contrast between thought and reality. Therefore, the poet's lonely soul is particularly eager for an extraordinary beauty, a spotless true love, and a great success that can comfort the soul.
Of course, poetry is often a poet's self-puzzle and self-explanation, and a way to prove his living condition. In Dickinson's poems, while expressing the desire for success, it is also a basis for staying at home (perhaps subconsciously): people who travel all over the world may not have more feelings about the world; Those who have traveled all over the world and tasted the taste of life may not be able to appreciate the situation and taste of life. Again, prove it with Lao Tzu's words. The ancient philosopher of China said, "You know the world without leaving home. Look at heaven without peeking. Far away, I know very little. " Can it explain Dickinson's life and poetry?
We can easily find that in the process of reading Dishi, we can always find the poet's lonely figure and dancing heart. Today, Dickinson is famous, but when she was alive, she was an unsuccessful person. Today, the great poet who left nearly 2,000 poems published only a few before his death, which did not cause any repercussions. Career is like this, so is love. The true love in my heart is hard to turn into a lifelong hand in hand in reality. The greatest love poet since Sappho was lonely all his life. Isn't such a huge contrast that the absolutely incompatible positive and negative poles in polar poems perfectly match the facts?
China poet Ms. Xie Wanying (Bing Xin) also wrote a successful poem, so let's make a simple comparison. Bing Xin's short poem entitled "The Flower of Success" reads: "The flower of success/people are only amazed at her present brilliance/but at the beginning, her bud was/soaked with tears of struggle/full of blood and rain of sacrifice." Obviously, Di's poems focus on the taste of success, while Xie's poems focus on hard-won success. Both poems use the method of contrast, namely "reality and imagination" in Dishi and "present and past" in Xie Shi. Dish's poems are heavy and intense, while Xie Shi's poems are fresh and lively. Although the expression and mentality of the two poems are different, they are both excellent philosophical poems.