Chutchev [Russia]
Human tears, oh, human tears,
You used to flow, and now you continue. ...
You flow quietly without a trace,
How can we never run out? Who knows how much?
You flow, flow, flow forever,
Like the bitter rain in the bleak autumn night.
(Translated by Chen, selected from the Dictionary of Appreciation of World Famous Poems)
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Psychologists say that people's tears are the catharsis of the soul. "Human tears, oh, human tears ..." is a short six-line poem, which sums up the misfortune of life with "tears" and leaves readers with an unusually empty thinking space. It is not characterized by one person and one thing, but typified by feelings, which is extremely important for poetry creation.
It is also different for poets to write tears. He grabbed a word "flow" and repeatedly rendered it. "Continuous" tears, "flowing" tears, "forever flowing" tears, singing three sighs and repeating, the artistic appeal of poetry has deepened.
In the first five sentences, the poet wrote tears directly, and then ended the sentence with a metaphor: "Like the bitter rain in the bleak autumn night." Please note that it's miserable to cry like rain. A restrictive word is added before "bitter rain", which is "late at night" of "bleak autumn", and the scene is even sadder. The poet deeply expressed the trauma of the soul with words with a strong sense of color.
As a lyric short poem, it is not easy for a poet to deeply penetrate an emotion in an extremely limited space with concise brushwork.
(Chen Shaowei)