When I leafed through Yu Zi's poems and thought about which one I read for the first time, I found that Yu Zi had accumulated so many words and so many affectionate words in just a few months. If we must judge his poem in a few words, then I can write down three words to describe its content: compassion, philosophical thinking and deep affection; This kind of compassion, this kind of philosophical thinking, and this kind of deep affection are all displayed in language through accurate images.
(a) Compassion for the world
If the years have blurred Yuzi's poem that first appeared in my eyes, then I clearly remember my mood when I read his Les Miserables. My first feeling was shock. In this era of crowing and dancing, at the moment when entertainment is paramount, I was fortunate enough to read such a poem with deep compassion. This poem describes the fear, helplessness and pain of the miners in the mine disaster:
Cold/cinder-like cold/breathing cold/crawling in the cold/climbing from floor to floor cold/endless cold
The darkness is heavy/the weight of the mountain/the weight of the old clock/the weight of life/under heavy pressure/I have become black coal/you burned/my bones/my ashes scattered with the wind.
Coal miners risk their lives to mine coal underground, because it can emit heat, warm people's bodies, and then warm people's hearts. However, who can look at the miners covered in black ash? Who knows their hard work? Who can understand their feelings when a mine accident happens? And that feeling is cold. Is this cold because of the low temperature underground or the various "heaviness" they have to face?
For most people, life is so hard, there are too many helplessness and struggles, even ferocious. But people have no choice but to live strong. In To Be Alive, the poet wrote:
Being alive/like a mountain/carrying the wind when the wind comes/accepting the rain when the rain comes/being strong/but no one asks/is this the choice of the mountain?
Life really gives people little choice and room for manoeuvre. In the choice of life, Yu Zi pushed people's dilemma to the extreme.
Mencius "sue? This chapter says, "Everyone has compassion ... Compassion is benevolence. "Yu Zi is such a compassionate person. He always observes carefully and feels the warmth and coldness of the world. In many of his poems (such as "Write a poem for this shoemaker"), we can all see this feeling of compassion, which is so heavy and deep.
(B) philosophy of life
As Yu Zi said in his short and pithy article "On the Responsibility of Poets": In the face of reality, poets should have a brave responsibility. To this end, he took it as his duty to show all kinds of human beings and inspire thinking, and wrote many thought-provoking poems on life philosophy.
A Journey of Life is Yu Zi's reflection on the theme of life. Undoubtedly, for such a grand theme, a poem's philosophical thinking on it is bound to be different from a long speech, and it is bound to choose a perspective; In addition, in order to avoid the abstraction and boredom that often appear when writing such poems, Yu Zi chose a scene to write the theme of life. This is also the advice that Yu Zi gave me when I wrote the poem "Life". After reading the first draft, he told me that imagining a scene is more infectious and conducive to expressing emotions, rather than dry reasoning. This is called a dramatic scene.
Therefore, in the journey of life, elements such as "cry", "road sign" and "cost" come alive, just like blood. This poem says:
Red and swollen feet crying on the gravel/thick black blood clots are road signs for progress/a journey/I know how long it is/but I can't tell the scattered bones/how many tens of thousands of tons there are.
Such an opening is powerful and can arouse readers' thinking. On the one hand, it describes the hardships, straightness and unyielding of life, on the other hand, it tells readers that when thinking about life, the opposite of life-death must also be included in thinking. Because death is not so much the end of life as a part of it.
Sure enough, Yu Zi went on to write that in the age and background of death at any time, life seems to be despised: "There is no need for reconsideration/temple trial", and life is like dirt. And not only be despised by others, the parties also despise their own lives, but heroes are also heroes. Therefore, if readers can see that Yu Zi is using the journey of life and the great Long March as a metaphor, and you have read Babel's Cavalry, you will understand Yuzi's unique writing on the Long March and his brave praise for brave soldiers.
At the end of the poem, the word "be immersed in love between children" means a long time. That arduous era has passed, and in the years of singing and dancing, people cherish life more, or cherish life. Yu Zi's words "Be immersed in love" came to an abrupt end, so did my comments on this poem, otherwise it would ruin the long artistic conception.
Similarly, in "Four Silhouettes of City Life", Yuzi used four silhouettes to write the mountain of material desires in modern cities, which buried our freedom; The river of fame and fortune has lost our bright eyes; Under the well-dressed appearance, there is a paper man, and our hearts have been sacrificed. Due to space reasons, I won't comment on this poem in detail here.
(3) affectionate money
In fact, compassion for the world and philosophical thinking about life are deep feelings. What I want to say in this part is another kind of affection of Yu Zi, a kind of fireworks.
I like the poem "Concerned" very much, and I still enjoyed it a little at that time. "Care is a worm/live in my heart/chew you slowly" may be this sentence. There is too much motivation for me. Who hasn't been bitten by care? Worry is a tree/it was dry yesterday/the spring breeze passed/it suddenly turned green. How many troubles are hopeless, desperate and nowhere to put, but they just keep cutting? "I'm worried about a lake/it's snowing/the lake is frozen/there are fish swimming under the ice". The still water is deep, isn't it getting deeper and deeper? Do you think being frozen in a single spark can start a prairie fire? To read such a poem is to read another heart, fish's and our own.
In "The Station of the Green Leather Train", it is full of deep nostalgia and nostalgia for an era. The lights of the station warm the passengers, and the passengers share the loneliness of the station. At that time, people were patient, going home slowly from far away and rushing from home to far away. The green leather train carries the nostalgia for hometown and yearning for the distance, while the small station is the rest and continuation of feelings and dreams. ...
In Qingming Festival, Yu Zi devoted his thoughts to his parents for the sake of his parents and himself. The phrase "Under the sky/we are already a mountain/a river" shows a sense of responsibility. In Comrade My Love, the feeling of caring for each other and staying together for life is integrated into the poem: "My love/can you find it/we are becoming the same person day by day:/having the same dream/having the same disease/saying the same words/laughing the same smile". I think that when we read such a poem, we will all laugh and secretly thank Yu Zi for writing our feelings. This is a kind of * * * song, which is deeply aroused!
(4) Vivid images
"Image" is the basic unit of poetry, the synthesis of meaning and image, and the concrete expression of the author's subjective intention and objective image. Ai Qing described this image poetically in "On Poetry": "Image: flying in the flowers, in the grass, on the pale yellow road of sand, in the silent and hot sunshine ... It is a butterfly-when it is finally caught, its true shape and bright colors stick to the white paper after flapping its wings." When I read Yu Zi's poems, I am always infected by vivid images. I sometimes ask Yu Zi how he came up with this idea, and Yu Zi will say, "I suddenly thought of it." I think maybe this is inspiration.
I still remember the feeling when I read the poem "Spring caught off guard".
Your little red flower/embroidered with butterflies and the March wind/is so bright, your smile/knocks on my sleepy door.
I was suddenly caught by this little red coat. It is warm and clever, smiling in new green eyes (this poem, Yu Zi is matched with a new green grass). Show the color, temperature and movement of spring vividly, so natural and unadorned.
Deep in Your Eyes can be said to be a poem with pure images. The stars are frozen and scattered, and the bones on the mountain are like an abstract painting. We seem to have caught something, but we can't describe it At this point, the fish woven a field, beautiful and fuzzy, intertwined and confused; And we are immersed in this obvious ambiguity. Are the stars, hills and bones unclear? Is the concept of fragmentation unclear? It is not only clear, but also so ethereal and wonderful. However, what is this poem about? We are blurred, hazy and intoxicated. This is poetry! That's why we like the dazzling blank on the stop sign in everyone's heart.
In "City of Flowers in the Rain", the half-closed door at dusk, the Sophora japonica in May, the mysterious bird in the Millennium, and the burning incense ... This poem was given to his teacher by Yu Zi. When I wrote this review, it suddenly occurred to me that I wanted Yu Zi to write a poem for me.
I looked up and found that I had written almost 2700 words, so let's call it a day. I want to say, as Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan said, some people prefer Yan Zhenqing's poems and others prefer Liu Gongquan's. I like reading Yu Zi's poems and writing this review, but it doesn't mean that Yu Zi's poems are really so good. Yu Zi, don't you think so? Or do your poems have many benefits that I haven't discovered yet?