A flowering tree
How to make you meet me
For this in my most beautiful moment
I am already in Buddha I have been praying for five hundred years
I prayed for it to let us have a mortal relationship
The Buddha then turned me into a tree
It will grow on the road you must pass. Next to it
The flowers bloom carefully in the sunshine
Every bloom is my hope in the previous life
Please listen carefully when you come near
The trembling leaves are my passion for waiting
And you finally walked by without a care
The ones that fell on the ground behind you
My friends, then Not petals
It’s my withered heart
1980.10.4?
Author: Xi Murong
Year of Creation: 1980
Source of the work: "Qili Xiang"
Literary genre: modern poetry
Extended information:
The author states that this poem is a poem written for nature. A love poem, "I met a flowering tree at the scene of life, and I spoke for it." As for some people interpreting the work as a love poem about "a girl standing there waiting for a boy to look at her", she said she was "a little hesitant." . But she also stated that the poet's interpretation is only one of them, because the reader's interpretation also makes sense. It is generally believed that this poem by Xi Murong expresses a girl's love for spring in a sincere and shocking way.
"How to let you meet me/at my most beautiful moment", the poem begins, depicting the girl's deep and graceful heart, expressing her beautiful expectations for love. In the words "for this", the poet borrowed the Buddhist sayings of past and present lives to express the girl's sincere heart of longing for absolute love in life in a sacred, ethereal and thorough way.
The second stanza of the poem closely follows the poetic meaning of the previous stanza, transforming the girl's state of mind waiting for the person she loves into "a flowering tree "growing on the roadside you must pass", "cautiously under the sun". "Full of flowers". The word "cautious" more delicately depicts the girl's efforts to improve herself and her sincere heart to look forward to love. The last stanza of the poem expresses the girl's sense of loss as her infatuated heart withers away. Love. When the person you love "passes by indifferently", what falls on the ground is not the petals, but the girl's withered heart, full of resentment and admiration, crying and complaining, so desolate that it makes people cry.
This. The poem is full of true feelings and sincerity. In the poem, the lyrical protagonist "I" is transformed into a tree. This tree is imbued with warm, sincere and persistent love. Its image is simple and novel. . Reading the complete poem, one seems to see a tree that has been guarding for life for a lifetime. It grows in the wilderness of the poet's spirit, is the flow and soaring of the poet's emotions, and is the externalization of the poet's emotions.
Emotions are unfolding layer by layer like complex petals, and all the feelings as sweet as mellow honey and as bitter as bitter lotus are intertwined in the heart, which brings endless reverie and emotion. Some commentators said that this poem is full of emotions. The expression of the fate agreed in the past life turns the focus of love into a religion, which creates a sense of sublimity.
In the poem, this pursuit of love is on the road at the most beautiful moment. The stop beside me shows that this stop is not accidental, but a long-cherished wish that has been prayed for for five hundred years in front of the Buddha. This is a touching and silly saying since it is such a long-cherished wish and it is at the most beautiful time. expectations, coupled with the carefully selected location - "growing on the roadside you must pass", and the posture - "carefully blooming under the sun", in fact, the long-term and immediate time have confirmed It expresses "I"'s deep expectations for "you". When such hopes in the past life and expectations in this life are ignored, "Friend, those are not flower petals/but my withered heart", which has the effect of destroying the soul.
This poem is very picturesque and beautiful in imagery. It successfully highlights the relationship between the lyrical protagonist and the flowering tree, the objects and myself, and condenses them into a community of images that conveys emotion and meaning. "Make a tree", the tree is "I". These groups of images and the artistic effects that turn the experience into audio-visual make me sigh after reading it. In particular, a tree "carefully blooming with flowers in the sun" is unforgettable and extremely The picture is very visually impactful, and the flowers blooming on the trees almost touch people's hearts. The overall style reflected in the whole poem is tranquility and perseverance, but under the seemingly plain tone, it is the undulating sea of ??the heart.
This poem also has the beauty of harmonious sound and rhyme. The whole poem is full of charm and eloquent. The words "flower", "beauty", "Buddha" and "destiny" in the poem are not only emotional, but also expressive. There are plots and imaginations - "The Buddha turned me into a tree", there are exaggerations - "I have been praying to the Buddha for five hundred years", and between the lively turns, it is full of affection, and this affection is also open.
This is a delicate and touching beautiful poem. Although there is no word "love", the warm and persistent love is vividly displayed on the page. When walking through the colorful flowers, we may think that some of the creatures around us love us deeply, just like this flowering tree, which is full of affection because of our existence.