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& lt& lt Song of the Stone Statue >> According to legend, this poem is based on the tragic story of Herod and leander in ancient Greek mythology, and tells the loneliness and sadness of a stone statue. The lonely stone statue standing on the cliff is reborn because of the sacrifice of the lover who sank into the sea; However, once the stone statue that loves the freshness of life gets life, she can only cry for the stone statue alone, because she has lost her most beloved person forever. In this way, the stone statue gained life because of love, but lost love because of regaining life, exposed to eternal desolation and loneliness. The image of "stone statue" is endowed with powerful personality power in poetry. It is different from "rock": the rock is cold, silent and speechless, and it ruthlessly seals the soul of the narrator. The stone statue is composed of a passionate and powerless soul longing for love and life and a ruthless but powerful rock. The intense internal and external contradictions constitute a great tension, which makes the narrator's desire to regain his life extremely strong. However, such a good wish to come back to life is conditional on sacrificing the person I love: "If someone is willing to die in the sea for me, I will come back from the rock, the redeemed life". The exchange of "being buried in the sea" for "being reborn" has somewhat aroused people's memory of Jesus' sacrifice for all beings; But Rilke has no intention of religiousizing it, and there is not much logic to speak of, just presenting a beautiful ceremony. He even played down the effect of "redemption" and asked loudly: "Although my blood wine is as red as red, what can I do?" My blood can't be called back from the sea/the person who loves me the most. "Red wine represents the blood of Jesus in Catholic mass ceremonies and can purify people's sins; But in Rilke's works, this is the mutual care of the above-mentioned "gurgling blood", the embodiment of a fresh sense of life, and the mysterious significance of purity and lofty that everything should pursue. Or it can be understood as "even if I sacrifice my own blood like Jesus, I can't save my beloved", thus questioning the possibility of redemption. In a word, in this poem, the emotion rushing down in one go lurks in the beautiful and smooth word flow, ups and downs, and finally leaves deep despair and infinite sorrow when the ending disappears. But this kind of sadness is calm and noble, as if a sad woman is slowly stating her pain to countless women, thus bringing more soft, elegant and subtle emotions in it; The listener (reader) feels the surging and deep loneliness in the stone statue because of this calm narrative, which is the source of the poet's creative inspiration.
Contact with Rilke, a master of modern poetry with outstanding style, beautiful poetry and obscure language, language has become the first obstacle we have to overcome. But perhaps it is because China's modern new poetry was introduced by Mr. Feng Zhi at the early stage of its development, deliberately imitating Rilke. Although there is an insurmountable gap between German and Chinese-both in grammar and culture-Rilke's language can touch people's hearts, as if it has an innate tacit understanding with China people. Many of his translated poems have a hazy and deep aesthetic feeling of China's "Mermaid's tears shed on the green sea of the moon". His language is obscure but not complicated, on the contrary, it is smooth-this is probably the reason why he doesn't like the content contained in fixed and symbolic images. He believes that "the image of poetry is not limited to words, it is unresolved, this is its lifeblood, it is updated." He closely combined vivid images with meditation, giving people inspiration everywhere, similar to China's classical poems which attached importance to verve temperament. He will touch everything in the world more with his sensitive and sincere heart. Therefore, there is always an explicit or implicit "I" in his poems, but this "I" is not only the poet himself, but the heart of a poet who is integrated with everything. When writing a stone statue, he turned himself into a stone statue, looking forward to it in despair in the face of the storm, singing alone and singing the sad song of his lover who could not come back. He lamented like a woman that "my blood can't be called back from the sea/the person who loves me the most"; He said that the knight's smile was gentle and elegant, "like moonlight/in a beloved book"; He slowly unfolded his dark and painful childhood memories, "stroking the white keyboard as if struggling in the snow"; He sincerely reminds the Lord of nature that autumn has come, "just wake up, read and write long letters/continue to wander on the tree-lined road, and the leaves fall"; He is looking for an unstable conversation in the city. "Strange violin, are you chasing me?" ..... His writing seems to be natural and casual, surprising in nuances, and always maintaining freshness and strangeness; His sensitive and pure sensibility to the appearance of the world temporarily purified and released the senses of people polluted by modern fast-paced life and money worship.
Why does Rilke have such a keen and profound sensibility?
It is generally believed that Rilke changed from romanticism in the early stage to realism in the later stage through his meeting with Rodin. In fact, Rilke has always been a romantic with mysticism in his bones. His works are not as wanton as orthodox romantic poems, praising and praising life, nature and God, and even "indulging in self-lyricism, exaggeration, paleness and superficiality" (Rilke wrote Cang Di in Chinese). On the contrary, he believes that "poetry is not an emotion as most people say." . He explored not the outside world, but the inside: he emphasized a lonely and powerful inner world, which contained a small universe inspired by him. And he is such a poet with a strong heart. We can find a steady stream of loneliness from his poems, such as "Loneliness is like a river at this time, covering the earth ...", such a popular word used by later generations is magnificent here, and even has a heroic and comforting taste of martyrs. He encouraged a young poet he had never met before and told him to "love your loneliness and bear the pain it brings you with melodious complaints". "All works of art originate from endless loneliness ... only love can understand them, seize them and realize their value." It is not difficult to find that his loneliness is based on his love for the world and all beings. Focusing on loneliness is to love better in your own body and complete your own world for others. To this end, he carefully examines and ponders everything, because examining everything is to examine his own heart (at the same time, he can constantly hone and improve his description skills); Everything gurgles out of your heart. After he became Rodin's private secretary, he was more like a duck to water. Under the influence of this great sculptor, he learned to "work in front of nature like a painter or sculptor, and stubbornly understand and imitate". He suddenly realized nature and expressed his soul through staring and meticulous sketching, thus creating a precedent of "chanting poems about things" in modern western poetry circles.
At the same time, he greeted death with a brand-new and extremely positive attitude. This point was carried out in his poems almost from beginning to end and became the motif of his exploration. He said, "Lord, give everyone a unique death/a death that comes out of his life with love, feelings and troubles." (pray regularly) Death is not a negative and frightening phenomenon, and should not be blindly denied and ruled out by people; On the contrary, death and life complement each other. A good life is for a good death, and a good death makes an individual's life perfect. He wants to "embrace the lost/young with warm roots; He once lost his dream in sadness and singing, so he decided to "bear the suffering of all mankind alone". This shows Rilke's unique religious view. Out of the shadow of childhood and deep thinking about the present situation of Catholicism, he rejected the theory of the other side of Christianity and the intermediary of Christ. He doesn't need Christ to play the role of atoning for mankind and making peace with God, because he doesn't admit original sin. He said, "I can talk to God. I don't need anyone to help me draft his letter. "In his view, everyone is unique, pure and has a hidden noble character. He should face God directly and pay attention to seeing and listening directly with his eyes. " Our so-called fate comes from our' people', not from the outside world's view of our' people'. "A poet should experience and observe the world with his heart, not just with his ears and eyes. To this end, there is a group of sincere poems written for the poor, a shining famous sentence "Poverty is the brilliant light from the heart", and a "elegy of Duinau" written ten years ago. ...
Reading Rilke is to communicate with a weak and powerful soul. People have never been despised, played with or abandoned by him, but follow his elegant thinking and step by step enter a noble, elegant and all-encompassing lonely world.
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