Bathe in the mud
dad
Sweat in the soil
grandpa
Bury in the soil
-Cang Kejia's Three Generations
This poem is arranged in the first volume of the seventh grade Chinese (People's Education Edition) as an extended reading material for the article "Walking".
Too lazy to check its writing background.
In my opinion, if the title of this poem is "Untitled", there are at least three ways to put it forward: middle age (or "I am halfway"), life (or "process") and three generations (or "children, fathers and grandfathers").
It is completely "blank", leaving enough imagination space for readers, so there is a broad reconstruction space.
Poetry is often abstract. Readers can concretize and visualize it according to their own understanding.
Interpretation and creation can and should be inconsistent. After all, only he knows best what the author's writing intention was.
If the connotation of a work is as certain as "1+ 1= 2", there is really no need to interpret it; If it is suitable for different times and different people to read, you can interpret it this way and that way, and you will have life and the value of existence.
Cang Kejia's Three Generations is such a work. It is a very short poem with only six lines of 2 1, but it expresses a very rich content, leaving readers with a "channel" for multiple interpretations. We can choose the following angles to analyze:
one
From child to father, from father to grandfather, step by step, towards the ultimate life. From small to large until the final destination, it is all in the soil.
Land has witnessed the constant giving and taking in our life.
Shame and dirty, playing in childhood and seeking happiness in the land; Sweating, wet clothes, "weeding at noon", hard work in the prime of life, begging for life on the land; Out of reach, stumbling, old and weak, dying, sleeping in the earth.
There are joys, pains and regrets.
In the three periods of life experience, land is three different carriers.
two
At the same time, three generations have lived in this land in their own way, intentionally or unintentionally.
The portrayal of a family of three generations-ignorance, helplessness and separation of life-has been rehearsed here.
Land is the foundation and life of human beings.
This is a hardworking peasant family, and it is also an incomplete family (there is no shadow of women, they may be busy at home or have left). They have lived in poverty, backwardness and obscurity for generations, but they have no idea and ability to change.
three
Middle age, giving up halfway, consumes youth.
The hard pursuit and struggle of middle-aged people have provoked the burden of life-children are not sensible and too young; Grandpa is dead and nobody cares. I have a responsibility, but also depressed and helpless.
Now, I am working and sweating for my family. Now, it is grandpa's past and children's future.
Children are my past; Grandpa is my future.
four
Not only that, but also can be understood as a kind of life, an ideal and a sigh of life. The emotions it reveals are complex and diverse-it can be a complex for the land, a lament for the passage of time and the shortness of life, and a confusion, boredom and sadness for the unchanging life. ...
Or, more than that.