Feeling is so important to the recipient of poetry (i.e. reader), as Belinsky said: "Poetry is such a thing that to understand it, you must start with feeling, not Start with introspection; under normal development, the latter must be the result of the former." (1) As for the subject of poetry (that is, the poet), as Ai Qing said: "Poetry is caused by the poet's response to the outside world. Feelings are infused with thoughts and feelings and condensed into images, which are finally expressed as a 'completed' art." (2) It can be seen that without the exchange of feelings between the speaker and the recipient of poetry, poetry cannot be made. Finally achieve the "done" stage.
Gu Cheng's "Feeling" captures feelings into poetry. To understand this poem, we must get rid of a common stereotype, that is, every poem must have a theme. In fact, poetry can have a theme or not. An idea, a feeling (including feelings), a sentiment, and a taste can alone weave a poem. As Zhu Ziqing said: "Some colors, some sounds, some fragrances, some tastes, and some touches can all have poetry." For this reason, he emphasized: "The first step in discovering these undiscovered poems is to rely on a keen eye. It feels like the poet’s tentacles have to penetrate the familiar surface and go into the unexplored foundation.” (3) In his childhood, Gu Cheng was driven out of the cultural Eden by ten years of turmoil and was exiled to the countryside, where he lived with white clouds, beaches, and mountains. Wildflowers for company. The sounds of clouds, light and water in nature cleanse his sensory abilities. Once he writes it into poetry, it often gives people a refreshing feeling. This little poem by Gu Cheng is the crystallization of feelings into words.
The poem is divided into two sections, each section has four lines, and the format is neat. The first stanza drives the gray sky and earth into the reader's eyes: the sky, roads, buildings, and rain are gray - this is the foreshadowing, and in terms of color, it is about rising and then suppressing; in the second stanza, you can see the sky and suddenly become enlightened, in a gray world Inside, two children passed by:
One bright red
One light green
The poet only picked out three colors: gray, red and green from the palette. A kind of color, but what a wonderful impressionist painting it painted for us! The reason why poetic pictures organized with plain, unpretentious language can emit an alluring fragrance is, as Danner said in "Philosophy of Art", that the poet combines the "main characteristics" of objective things. It becomes the poet's "first impression", making it submerge everything in the plan, leaving other features in a neglected position; and giving "the characteristics of things a stimulus and making him get a strong impression", this is exactly The "unique feeling" that a poet must possess. Gu Cheng successfully engraved this unique feeling in the poem.
The world is made of colors. However, Gu Cheng singled out three types (among which "the rain is gray" is the poet's subjective impression) and ignored the others; these feelings are unfiltered by reason, and they are ignored by the poet just by wandering at the door of perceptual knowledge. Captured keenly, with a strong sense of intuition. "Feeling" deliberately avoids vivid descriptions of concrete objects, and only freezes the intuition of sensory intake. As the impressionist music master Debussy said: "My wish is to reproduce what I heard. This is a story that would rather feel than give up." The subject of the plot", (4) but the work was a success. When readers step into the gray world described by the poet, they suddenly appreciate the bright colors of bright red and light green. Isn't the suddenness, freshness, and comfort that shakes the heart like electricity?
What readers get from the poem "Feeling" is by no means just pure sensory stimulation. In other words, the poet only captures the momentary feeling into the poem, but the reader can gain intellectual understanding from it. Aren't the bright reds and tender greens that break free from the cage of gray heaven and earth a compliment to bright colors, or to youth and strength? Even the detail of "passing by two children" can have profound meaning if you think about it carefully. Doesn't it express the poet's love for childlike innocence? Gu Cheng takes childlike innocence as the life of poetry! The picture of the poem seems to tell people that in a gray world, the "bright red" children and the "light green" children bring hope to the world.