The cover is unfolded like this-quiet and romantic gray-blue, with a few words scattered randomly on it, and a blank "poem" can be seen at a glance.
I remember the first time I bought a collection of poems in college. The two books are not too thick, namely, Shakespeare's Selected Poems and Mr. Wang's collection of poems, My Feelings are Continuous. At that time, I knew nothing about new poetry. At most, I laid out some pictures in my mind with the poet's narrative.
How did the poet reach the realm of poetry and painting?
The same metaphor can be constructed in thousands of words and tens of thousands of words in prose and novels, but how does the poet condense it into a few lines of poetry?
I'm even curious, why did that person choose to write poetry when an inspiration came?
It should be said that "Image Empire" has completely answered these questions of Xiaobai. Not only that, but also let us know how to read Chinese and western good poems intensively.
Why do I think everyone should find this book to read?
In my opinion, peeling off the shell of poetry is ultimately a book that shapes aesthetic character. Huang Fan is first of all a poet and novelist, so he chose to enter from new poetry, presenting a beautiful perspective. I guess, maybe he can also choose to start with UAV design or art history, because he is a great scientist majoring in flight mechanics and has taught at Nanjing University of Science and Technology for many years. In addition to teaching creative writing, he also teaches Chinese and Western art history courses.
The road of poetry is narrow and quiet, but it is equivalent to a person's aesthetic power. Once formed in the mind, it can affect personal life and work, including children's education, through the passage of one eye, one finger and one ear.
This book has four major classes, subdivided into 29 small classes, interspersed with rich classroom assignments and comments. After reading through, immersed in the scene, I went back to the classroom to make up the required courses in my student days.
Huang Fan said that he has seen countless people's writing, and he is not short of skills and literary talent, but he lacks the concept of modern writing. This reminds me that Jobs once made a similar sharp point. He called stale ideas scaffolding that bound people, and people had to come out before they could innovate. I'm afraid there is no writer, so I'm willing to stand still.
Huang Fan did not directly list what he thought was stale, but directly introduced several core concepts of modern writing based on his own and other writers' writing practices, which are applicable to various genres.
I can't repeat every concept in my reading notes. You will read it naturally. I only write the following core words as notes in this chapter.
It can be said that these core words form a rotating matrix, which will not teach us how to write, but tell us how to combine writing skills scientifically and improve the possibility of winning prizes. The rotation matrix of mathematics is set by computer, while that of literature is set by brain, and then it rotates according to the axes of different literary genres, and then it is all-encompassing.
You never know, I really want to write it down. Often confused for a long time. For example, I will repeatedly write different beginnings, and my interest and self-confidence will be destroyed by myself; Or build a grand story with a romantic feeling, but every time it is outnumbered, leaving a beautiful shell. This first class really knows the troubles of novices.
Huang Fan said that he actually "didn't care about the opening", and famous writers wrote more ordinary opening than their classic opening;
Some writers will "only conceive a theme for their works for the time being, and with the help of this theme, they will enter the world of works that is more three-dimensional than the theme", such as Yu Hua's "Being alive", which is also from simple to complex in the process of writing;
Breaking through the psychological barrier of "justifying one's faults" is a difficulty faced by many beginners. Surgery on "father", "mother" and "me" should be one of the early writing goals ... The author's rich writing and teaching experience undoubtedly succeeded in letting the characters put down the idol burden.
Every time after class, there will be homework and several writing games that interact with peers. It is very interesting. I chose a relatively independent topic as the end of my first reading note.
In this class, Huang Fan talked about the basic skills of modern poetry writing, that is, writing a poem first, not the whole poem.
Because he has accumulated rich experience in writing and teaching new poetry, in the process of telling the basic skills, he put forward many common problems of beginners of new poetry, and even many people who have written poetry for most of their lives may not realize the obstacles.
Difficulties in writing new poems may come from:
Image? Imagination? I thought imagery was just a metaphor for putting small emotions or big feelings into a poem, and occasionally it was used as the finishing touch. Just choose a short poem from Mu Xin's My Passion, which I bought in my early years. For example, which one is vivid?
India
Several Indians nearby.
Mixing and cooking of wind and vegetable pulp
Do Indians eat and drink constantly?
Elegant and wild.
There is no need to go to India again.
A rich fragrance
Let India find you.
? Mu Xin (1997)
So, is the second sentence being led by the wind an image? Is the action of fragrance in the last two sentences an image?
After reading this chapter, I realized that images are more than these three sentences!
Huang Fan told us that images can be divided into objective images and subjective images. An objective image is an object or image that the eyes can directly see or can't see, but may exist in reality, such as Ma Zhiyuan's "A dead vine twines a crow", the poet's "I prune the tree you planted" and the Italian poet Montalais's "A kingfisher croakes and hovers over a carrion". And vice versa? Subjective images refer to imaginary and inner images, which are generally impossible to exist in reality, such as White Hair by Li Bai, Add some salt to your shadow by Yu Xia, a poet in Taiwan Province Province, and I made a piano with celery, which is probably the thinnest piano in the world by Cang Di.
Have you noticed that we often see some modern poems that express our feelings endlessly, but they are boring to read, and most of them are empty and abstract ideas. These abstract concepts such as love, existence, loneliness and so on are unintentional things. The author tells us that once we use these non-image things, we should be cautious and often match images to make our thoughts tangible and concrete.
China's classical poetry is dominated by objective images, supplemented by subjective images. When it comes to new poetry, because the subjective image is more poetic, and because of cultural differences and personal experiences, an ingenious subjective image is enough to make the text rich and far-reaching, so the subjective image becomes the baton of new poetry, making up for the problem of shallow poetry caused by the lack of rhyme and form freedom.
With the concept of image classification, it is much easier to analyze Mu Xin's poem "India".
The first two lines are clear objective images (Indians, wind, food, paste), and then two non-image poems are inserted-directly expressing a person's point of view, which is used to guide readers to think with him: are Indians eating and drinking constantly/don't have to go to India again? Finally, it ends with two lines of imposed subjective images: "strong fragrance/attracting India to find you".
Think about it, can fragrance really lead a country? Xiang has no mouth or limbs. It can't give orders to a country, so this is exaggeration. I'm afraid what Mu Xin wants to say is that the smell has shaped the image of a country, and the smell of the neighbor's house represents a foreign culture, which has irresistibly entered his life. However, Mu Xin used subjective images to make the images of Indian spices vivid and charming. His neighbor is a conqueror? Friendly visitors? Or a humorous intruder? Every reader will have his own explanation according to his past experience, which is precisely the reason why new poetry prefers subjective images.
Jane avenue. The seemingly abstruse poetry writing was split into small caves by writer Huang Fan, leading readers to explore the inner interest of a poem with a pen ruler.
He summarized four simple and easy-to-learn "poetic modes", such as "A's B" and "Let A do what A can't do" and so on. When I finished my homework one by one according to these formulas, I found that the poetic beauty that has been shelved, the hidden, potential or natural subordinate technical characteristics of poetic eyes, were highlighted by his formulas. Almost everyone can write a decent modern poem with these patterns. Of course, this is only the part from 0 to 1.
Mu Xin's poems, though short, are rich in content and active in rhythm. What is the method? In this class, I also found possible answers. Huang Fan mentioned that when writing poems with objective images, it is more difficult to "jump logically" or "montage" and "leave blank" for readers to fill in the cloze. Mu Xin's first four sentences, just between man, nature and cooking, repeatedly jump, creating a subtle drawing effect between one sentence and another.
Huang Fan told us that the previous formula is only a basic dance step, which can be trained into a language game that has nothing to do with "Wende". Once we understand the dialectical writing of subjective and objective images, we can naturally have an ambition to make poetry closer to the poet's own voice. As a result, more skills were born and mixed with the basic dance steps in the second class to form a small tribe.
Today is the fifth day of Lunar New Year's Eve, and I am a little tired. I completely lost the motivation to organize my notes. If you, like me, have questions about the following questions, then I suggest my friends read them directly.
Why do people always say that they can't understand my poems?
How to write an image accurately? What is the definition of this precision?
Why are things wrong but praised by modern poets?
How do subjective images and objective images allocate proportions in a poem?
My imagination is not rich enough. Is there any good way to build strangeness?
My imagination is too rich. Is it necessarily a good poem to explode?
What is the smallest poetic unit of new poetry?
Isn't the new poem a branch prose? Is there a mandatory form?
Are the forms of new poetry, such as changing careers, blank lines, commas and periods, necessary?
The difficulty of the exercises in this chapter suddenly increased a lot. Attached is one of my post-reading exercises, trying to digest the content of a class.
19 16 years, Hu Shi wrote the poem Butterfly seemingly casually, which opened the exploration of China's vernacular poetry. At that time, Hu Shi was determined to explore "living literature" under the influence of new western thoughts. He advocated breaking the shackles of the old classical Chinese, throwing away rhymes and allusions, throwing away the strict rules of poetic style that have been imprisoned for thousands of years, and reshaping China's poetry in the twentieth century with fresh and free vernacular breath and words.
Nowadays, new poetry has gone through a hundred years, and after several generations of poets' exploration, the concepts and techniques of poetry have been contended. More importantly, the contemporary new poetry inherits and develops the musical sense and rhythmic skills of China's classical poetry, making the past serve the present, and combining the theoretical essence of western modern poetry, it expands a very broad space for the writers of China's new poetry.
In the fourth class, the author explained in detail "several methods of writing whole poems"
You can choose to follow the Book of Songs to learn the objective sense of music. Follow Celan's fugue of death to experience the emotional rhythm in the overlapping of sentences and chapters; Imitate Dai Wangshu and Beidao, and use strength and lightness; Or measure your own poems with Wen Yiduo's ruler.
You can also stand in front of the leopard in Rilke and complete a poem related to the ideal by symbolic means; It took a year to learn from Pound, the founder of western Imagism, and cut out a metaphor about flowers and faces from more than 30 lines. Experience the pain of love from the slipknot of Taiwan Province poet Zhong Ling and the tooth decay of Yu Xia.
I know that the original master also experienced the embarrassment of obscure poems and deliberate repetition in his early years; The classic structure of the original tertiary ABA can be seen everywhere, and it can even be reflected in the design of egg sandwiches ...
Clever brushwork is the starting point of reading new poems, which can let insiders see the poet's skill at a glance. At the same time, they are also the invisible threshold to stop the layman, just like I was blocked, holding the poems of Shakespeare and Mu Xin in my hand. Although I am easily attracted by the beauty of the snow scene, I can't see the secret of a snowflake.
Today is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday. After reading the whole book, I prefer to call it the microscope of new poetry.
With it, we can find an excellent perspective to talk about modern poetry that can be seen everywhere online and offline, including poetry in movies.
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