A silent and patient spider,
I noticed that it stood alone on a small cape.
Notice how it looks at the emptiness around it,
It shoots silk, silk, silk, from its own small,
Silk blooms from the yarn and speeds up tirelessly.
And you, my soul, where are you standing,
Surrounded and isolated in the ocean of infinite space,
Constantly thinking, exploring, projecting, looking for places to connect,
Until you build the bridge you need, until you persevere,
Until the hairspring you throw is caught somewhere, my heart!
Poetry is life. Welcome to "Reading Poetry in Caotang" jointly launched by cover news, Chengdu Radio and Television Listening Hall FM and poetry magazine Caotang. I am the poet Juanzi. What we have just heard is Whitman's poem "A Silent and Patient Spider", which translates into flying white. Today, let's enjoy this poem together.
Come and meet the poet. Whitman, a famous American poet, created free verse, and his masterpiece is Leaves of Grass. His poems profoundly influenced American poetry in the 20th century in terms of language and theme.
For this song "A Silent and Patient Spider", the poet Zhou has this interpretation:
In A Silent and Patient Spider, Whitman relates the image of a spider to the state of mind, which leads to philosophical thinking about the spiritual pursuit in the specific behavior of spinning silk.
The opening begins directly from the protagonist "Spider" of the poem, which is not only the starting point of the whole poem, but also the center of subsequent divergence and extension. This straightforward way is a remarkable symbol of Whitman's poetry. As a description of the state, "isolation" in the second sentence is actually more like a razor, which quickly removes redundant associations in the poem, as if the whole world is just a "spider" noticed by the poet, while the next sentence "the emptiness around" sets off this lonely and even isolated state through a vast blank. The repetition of the word "silk" in the third sentence not only delays the physical time, but also strengthens the psychological tension of the whole poem. Through the description and foreshadowing of the first five sentences, when the sixth sentence finally exhaled "my heart"