Lorca [Spain]
They brought me a conch.
This is a tribute,
A chart.
my heart
Full of water waves,
Dark as a shadow, bright as silver,
This little fish swims a lot.
They brought me a conch.
(translated by Dai Wangshu)
This is a fresh and unique love poem with only eight short lines. A friend brought back a conch from the seaside, and the poet put it to his ear. From the conch, the poet felt the surging waves of the whole sea. "There are eulogies and charts in it." A small conch conveys the information of the whole sea. Then, the pen turned "my heart is full of water waves", at first glance, it seemed abrupt and incoherent; Deliberate taste is exactly what the poet conceived: the heart is like the sea, ups and downs. From the conch to the sea, the waves roll and then turn to the surge of inner feelings. The sea is like a heart, and the heart is like a sea. The same shadow floats and glows. These two images overlap, vividly showing people's familiar ups and downs and restless psychology when they fall in love with the sea. The sentence "Little fish swim a lot" is such an ordinary and peculiar poem, which reminds people of the hearts of young people in love, those restless thoughts and the warmth that surges from time to time.
The picture of this poem is as beautiful as a myth, and the language is concise, vivid and colloquial. In just a few lines, simplicity is better than complexity, and less is better than more, which saves a lot of endless confession. This shows the superb artistic skills of lorca's structural poems. Poetry is full of music beauty, painting beauty and endless aftertaste.