The poem "Commemoration" not only reflects the love of a father, but also reflects the helplessness of an era. Combine lyricism with narration. As a obscure poem, the whole poem has no obscure words, but it gives people a vague feeling. It doesn't directly express mourning for his father's grief and sadness, but plays down the feelings and permeates the feelings that the poet wants to express from the details of daily life.
Three poems. The first section adopts the method of memory. I don't directly express my memory of my father. However, from his father's daily ordinary articles such as wine glasses, forgotten letters, old leather shoes, razors and mirrors, he thought of his father's actions before his death, which triggered his son's feelings for his father. Father "smokes in front of the mirror/you sit there wondering every morning" and "every time you get angry, you are actually scolding yourself". These are my father's habits and daily life. In the second section, the screenwriter continued to reminisce deeply and wrote "My Father and I", which described in detail the details that my father was very strict with me and made me have nightmares. "Pushing me out of the door is like waiting at a street corner/you deliberately ignored the poem I left on the coffee table." My father's severe punishment made me feel that I was probably the broken tin ashtray, which was burned rudely by you again and again, and even had such a nightmare that you made me streaking in the crowd and fall into the sea from the roof. The father in the poem is not a great man or a commendable Kemo. He is just an ordinary man. He is clever but incompetent, demanding of his son and strictly observing his behavior. The third part is about myself. What people want is always far from reality and can't be completely matched. Fate always plays tricks on people. If I want to be a good student from the next day/the alarm clock will definitely stop beating in the middle of the night/I will honestly be a profitable worker/but one day, I will be called to sing directly/I want to be a good husband, but sausages are always sold out. Life is very embarrassing for me, and many things are not satisfactory, so I sent out the feeling that "things don't know why/I can't get along". This "childish" expression and almost ridiculous tone contain anger. Adult "a little childish" language, with a little angry, a little playful, full of youth, some coquetry, some sharp, this is a unique state when facing the world. It's just that Wang Xiaolong hid this recognition of language texture in the depths of life beyond gestures. The performance of "I" is always unsatisfactory, "I" is incompatible with reality, and the ideal is too far from reality, so "I" cannot become the role that my father expects. Maybe it's because of the current situation, "I'd rather be an asshole/so I'll make peace with everything." Being an asshole can make peace with everything, which shows what society was like at that time! But my father "suddenly turned around and left." This may be the father's denial of his son's idea. In fact, the son can't do it, just like the father, just like the poem "I am you". "I am you" appears at the end of the first and second sections of the whole poem, becoming the connection point of the whole poem, echoing back and forth, promoting the development of the whole poem and deepening the theme.
2. Excellent language art
Looking at the whole poem, the language of the whole poem is simple, intercepting bits and pieces of daily life, but there is a vague and obscure feeling. Obviously, after careful carving by the poet, it naturally shows a superb artistic level. Images such as "old leather shoes", "dry bed bottom", "broken tin ashtray", "You let me run naked in the crowd", "You threw me off the roof" and "palm" are common, but they are used in the artistic conception of poetry, but they reflect the brilliance of the poet's wisdom. It has been given different meanings in ordinary words. This poem also uses rhyming techniques. For example, the first section "Those old leather shoes are still parked under the dry bed", "I looked up and saw you", "You sit there every morning", "Every time you get angry, you are actually cursing yourself" and "I am you" all rhyme with "me". It adds a touch of bright color to the gloomy context tone, making the words read smoothly and have a strong sense of music. In addition, there are many freely combined words in this poem, and many poems break the normal word order. For example, "the shaving knife rusted your beard" and "I think/I probably just broke the tin can after hitting it hard a few times". From these unconventional languages, the author reveals his indescribable feelings for his father.
This poem also uses various rhetorical devices. The use of metaphor, personification and symbolism makes this article have high artistic characteristics. The anthropomorphic poem "Those old leather shoes are still at the bottom of the dry bed/thinking hard" endows the old leather shoes with human spirituality. Is the object of thinking, is thinking about the past, sad feeling arises spontaneously. "I'm probably the broken tin ashtray, and you burned me cruelly again and again." Metaphor father's severe punishment for himself. "Now you are hitting me on the back of the head with disgusting eyes", "It rains at noon as soon as the sun shines" and so on. These colloquial and playful sentences contain profound thoughts.
Three. Unique narrative perspective
This poem adopts the first-person narrative perspective. There are 17 "I" and 24 "you" in the poem. It seems that the poet's father has not left, but in front of the poet, the poet is communicating face to face with his father. This reduces the reader's sense of distance from the poem, and the artistic conception of the poem is deeply true. At the same time, 17 "I" and 24 "you" are distributed in all chapters and tribes of the whole poem, which makes the whole poem closely structured, forceful to read, deepening layer by layer and revealing true feelings.
4. Real thoughts and feelings
This poem mainly expresses the author's deep nostalgia for his father. At the same time, it also reveals the ignorance and darkness of an era. Every sentence in the poem is full of the poet's feelings. "Looking up and seeing you/smoking in the mirror", my father was a mirror of the society at that time, a microcosm of a generation, and every era had its expressions and secrets. "You are so smart/so incompetent", and the inconsistent poems make us strongly feel the darkness and irrationality of the society at that time. Finally, "in short, it is normal to rain at noon on a sunny day." Look at the raindrops shining brightly in the sun, harmonious like a pair of street children ",which contains profound philosophy of life." Things in the world can't be perfect, there will always be defects. It is important not to go with the flow, but to stick to your own behavior. Don't care too much about the past.
Nowadays, in a society full of "outstanding writers" and "famous artists", Wang Xiaolong has lost the laurel of poetry, and the once famous poems have almost disappeared from the vision of ordinary readers, only a few people know. Beautiful flowers usually bloom in unknown corners. Wang Xiaolong's Commemoration is far less famous than Li Bai's and Xu Zhimo's poems, but it is an impressive and immortal masterpiece after careful reading!