However, after reading this poem, readers can't help praising it as a good poem. What is the reason?
Ordinary little things are not necessarily without poems.
The problem is how to find, grasp and penetrate the author's intention in this grasp. People can feel something after reading it and get inspiration from this feeling.
It is common for children to mow the grass, but the poet has some feelings. The poet wants to write this "child mowing the grass", how to start? How to write poetry? The poet didn't write the story of the child, what his surname was and where he came from. He didn't write about his family, his joys and sorrows. The poet just wrote a picture of him mowing the grass:
"The sunset dyed the grassland red. /The mowing child mowed the grass silently,/With his head down, bent over, he began to hurry,/Slowly moved from side to side//The grass has covered his small body-/We only saw it in the grass:/A bamboo basket full of grass, several piles of grass,/And a sickle shining with golden light in the sunset ... "
Why did the poet only write such a picture? Has the poet's intention been achieved? Quite simply, the poet thinks that writing like this is enough, and a work of art is finished.
There seems to be no skill here. It's so concise. In fact, there are not only skills here, but also high skills, just reaching a natural level, which is almost imperceptible.
The poet only chose a picture of a child mowing the grass, and left nothing else written, which is a very high skill in itself. "Eliminating redundancies and preserving details" (in Zheng Banqiao) is a very important technical requirement as well as an aesthetic requirement. The poet knows this very well. When the poet conceived this poem, he had already processed it in his mind from material selection to cutting, and what to write and what not to write had been filtered in his mind. Although this process is invisible and unknown to others, it is a very important stage in creation. Without this process, it is unimaginable.
The success of this process is closely related to the poet's life experience and aesthetic ability. Talented poets create exquisite works, while those poets who are not talented may of course be inferior. The selection and tailoring of The Child Who Cuts the Grass just reflects the poet's cleverness.