Original: "Dead Water"
Wen Yiduo
This is a backwater of despair,
The breeze doesn't move at all.
Why don't you throw more rubbish,
Throw out your leftovers.
Maybe copper will turn green into jade,
A few rusty peach petals on the tin can;
Let greasy weave a layer of Luo Qi,
Mold steamed some clouds for him.
Let the stagnant water ferment into a ditch of green wine,
Filled with pearly foam;
Little Pearl smiled and became a big one.
I was bitten by a flower mosquito who stole wine again.
A desperate backwater ditch,
And a little image.
If frogs can't stand loneliness,
Dead water again. It is singing.
This is a backwater of despair,
This is definitely not the beauty,
Why don't we leave it to ugliness to cultivate,
See what kind of world it has created.
Appreciate:
Dead Water is the most important work of Mr. Wen Yiduo, a representative writer of Crescent School. His brushwork is spicy and sophisticated, obscure and tortuous, with novel and delicate ideas, elegant and rich language and long meaning, which has always been praised. However, there has always been controversy about the thoughts and feelings contained in it. Some people think that stagnant water shows a kind of disgust, hatred and disappointment to the dark reality, some people think that stagnant water expresses a desire to destroy the world and create a new life, some people think that stagnant water conveys a bitter irony and ruthless curse to the old world and old things, and so on.
I think, in Dead Water, the poet's feelings can be said to be severe and cold mixed with fiery enthusiasm. For the former, it is easier to understand, because the poet's attitude towards the symbol of reality-"a ditch of desperate stagnant water" is like this. For the latter, it is difficult to be perceived because the poet's enthusiasm is hidden in fierce irony and clever teasing. Wen Yiduo felt very wronged and people didn't understand his mind. In a letter to the student Zang Zaike's family, he said: "You still keep saying that the author of Dead Water is only good at skills. God, where did this come from? "
"I only feel that I am a volcano without eruption. The fire hurt me, but I still don't have the ability (that is, the skill) to explode my shell and radiate light and heat. Only a few friends who have been with me for a long time (like the dream family) know that I have a fire, and I feel my fire in stagnant water. " What are the grievances, pains and fires in Wen Yiduo's heart? From the above two dialogues, it is not difficult to see that "unfairness" lies in people's misunderstanding that the skill of stagnant water is better than thought, and misunderstanding the author's creative basis and performance theme. The "pain" in this heart and the "fire" in this heart need to be analyzed in detail with the content of stagnant water.
"Pain" and "fire" are mutually causal and closely related. Pain is the condensation of sadness, anger, pain, disappointment and despair. Prolonged suffering and pain will undoubtedly arouse the author's anger, and the fire and anxiety in his heart will only increase the author's struggle and struggle. In its coldness and harshness, Dead Water is full of unstoppable fire. In my opinion, the word "fire" in Dead Water has two meanings: first, it refers to the poet's anger at the darkness, ugliness, corruption and sin of reality; Second, it refers to the author's fiery enthusiasm for light, hope, struggle and rebirth. Why is there still a long way to go?
The whole poem consists of five sections, which are divided into three levels in turn. The first section is the first floor, the second to fourth sections are the second floor, and the fifth section is the third floor. The first and second stanzas are connected with each other, echoing each other from a distance, and the middle three stanzas are combined with movement and irony, which constitutes the main part of the whole poem. The first section "This is a ditch of desperate stagnant water,/and the breeze doesn't move at all." Section 5 "This is a ditch of desperate stagnant water,/This is definitely not beauty." The definition of "stagnant water" with "despair" twice not only shows the rotten, lifeless and hopeless status quo of "stagnant water", but also expresses the poet's hatred, indignation and despair of evil. The next sentence, firmly, hit the floor, like a court ruling, undoubtedly sentenced the criminal to death as soon as the town wood rang. On this basis, adding "the breeze can't blow half an inch" and "this is not the beauty", or exaggerating the description, or flatly denying it, is like adding insult to injury, adding fuel to the fire, cursing and flogging without mercy, that is, clapping and applauding, which is exciting. The first two and the last two "not as good" are summarized by the height of points and surfaces. The former is "it is better to throw more garbage and throw away your leftovers." Fighting evil with evil and fighting poison with poison are full of grief and excitement after death and despair. It can also be seen that this desperate stagnant water "is definitely not the beauty." It hides evil and practices evil, and it is sinful; It's alive and dying. The latter "it is better to leave it to the ugly to cultivate/see what world he has created" is by no means the author's disheartened and stand by, but the angry words of despair. Since such a desperate backwater cannot be transformed and saved, and it has rotted to the bone and is full of evil, it is better to let nature take its course and let it perish. Extremely sharp language subtly conveys the author's profound hatred for the dark reality and reactionary warlords. The implication of "look at what world he has created" is that if ugliness is cultivated, it can only be ugly and ugly, and evil is evil. He just made the world smoky and dark. In the face of such an enviable black-and-white society, with no distinction between right and wrong, lack of justice and no hope, can you expect it to create a "what world"?
The poet's evaluation:
Wen Yiduo is not only a great poet, but also an outstanding scholar. He is a very outstanding writer after the May 4th Movement. He also has a poem "Mr. Wen's Desk", which is well written. He wrote pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk. When he saw those things, he began to complain.
Wen Yiduo loves his motherland, and patriotism runs through his life like the same red line, eventually leading him to socialism and * * * productism. His life path is tortuous. He was once confused, made mistakes and frustrated, but after deep thinking and the care and help of the producers in China, he finally found the truth. Once he found out the truth, he never hesitated, persevered and fought bravely to realize the truth until he gave his precious life. Wen Yiduo is knowledgeable and versatile. Besides studying new poetry and ancient literature, he also has profound attainments in fine arts, drama, calligraphy and seal cutting.
The poet said:
Wen Yiduo (1899— 1946), formerly known as Wen Jiahua, was a native of Xishui, Hubei Province, a famous modern poet, scholar and democracy fighter in China. When I was a child, I liked classical poetry and art. 19 13 was admitted to Tsinghua University, 1922 went to the United States to study painting and literature after graduation. 1923 published a collection of poems, Red Candle. From 65438 to 0925, he returned to China and worked as a professor in Beijing Institute of Art, Wuhan University, Qingdao University and Tsinghua University. 1928 published the second book of poetry, Red Candle. 1July 5, 946, 15 was killed by a Kuomintang spy and wrote an immortal poem of patriotism with his own blood. Wen Yiduo's poems show his hatred for imperialism and reactionary warlords, express his deep concern for the fate of the motherland and the people, and are full of strong patriotism. In art, Wen Yiduo's poems have unique imagination, orderly structure, neat form and harmonious syllables, and have high artistic achievements.