Poetry is an important means for Lin Daiyu to express her feelings and pin her ideals, and it is also an important part of her life. She put a lot of effort into writing poems and showed high attainments. Her poems, like her, are romantic and unique, clear and sad. When Yuan Chun visited his mother in the province, he was only ordered to write "one topic and one chant", so he couldn't perform, so he wrote a poem "Apricot Curtain" on behalf of Baoyu, which was rated as "the crown of four wonders" by Yuan Chun (18 times); She wrote Bai Haitang's poem "Really kinder than others" (37 times); Her three chrysanthemum poems, "Well-titled, Well-Poeted and Innovative", won the top three (38 times). In Lu Xueting's Landscape Poems and Obi Ting's Poems of Sorrow and Solitude, he is even more resourceful, and he can't compare with Xiangyun. Obviously, the author is trying her best to describe her poetic talent and create the image of a poet, a poet with a pure and chaste soul. Therefore, it can be said that it is not enough to know Lin Daiyu without knowing Lin Shi.
We have tasted her poems soaked with sadness and tears more than once. In the "Flower Fu", there are "tears when you hoe flowers alone, and blood can be seen on the branches above"; "Ode to the White Sea Tang" includes "The fairy in the moon cave sews a gown, and there are always women in my heart who wipe crow marks in autumn"; In the stormy evening when you leave the autumn window, there are "the pulse is still whizzing, and there seems to be tears under the lamp". "I don't know when the storm will stop, but I have taught you to shed tears on the window screen. Tears are easy to dry when you look at flowers with tears, and flowers are dry in spring. " Tipa's three quatrains are pure tears, and even Tipa's wine preface reveals such an artistic conception: "It's just a broken goose that makes people nine ileums." It is not difficult to draw a conclusion from the above that sentimentality, crying and crying are the most prominent personality characteristics of Lin Daiyu's artistic image.
We have felt her eagerness for love between the lines of her poems more than once. She is willful, frank and natural, persistently pursues love and art, and yearns for the world of poetry and beauty. My eyes are empty, my tears are empty, but for whom do I throw them? "Self-pity and resentment in autumn" in chanting chrysanthemum asks "How lonely is the frost in the garden? How can you miss your illness when you return home?" In the chrysanthemum dream, "who complains when you wake up, how can the grass smoke mourn?" They showed us the heart of a girl who is eager to be moved. Naturally, it reminds people of Li Shangyin, a poet who wrote a poem similar to Daiyu's style, that is, the pain of flexion and extension that pervades every word. Lin Daiyu said that she didn't like Li Yishan the most, but only loved "waiting for the rain", which was a taboo deliberately committed by the poet who was good at writing "love poems" in front of Jia family. In the order of playing cards, she even subconsciously revealed "which day is the best" and "a newspaper without a matchmaker on the screen". We know that The Romance of the West Chamber is regarded as an evil book in the boudoir, but Lin Daiyu's diction is enough to show the profound influence of the new concept of love on it. But at the same time, we should also see that this kind of thinking is so weak. Because Daiyu cherished the status of a feudal aristocratic lady very much, and did not break through the feudal etiquette, Baochai's persuasion would produce some kind of * * * sound, and she accepted it gladly and took it as a confidant. Here, we really see a "spring sleepy" but dare not violate the feudal etiquette, but also want to maintain her status as a lady of complex contradictions.
On the Development of Daiyu's Character from Poetry
The love between Baoyu and Daiyu is the main line of A Dream of Red Mansions and the logical starting point of Daiyu's personality transformation and development. Therefore, the analysis of Daiyu's poems in different periods can best reflect the development history of Daiyu's character.
Visible Palace and Visible Apricot Curtain are the first works that Lin Daiyu saw in A Dream of Red Mansions. "Where is the famous garden built? Wonderland is not the world of mortals. Add new scenery with beautiful mountains and rivers. Xiangrong Jingu wine, Huamei Yutang people. He Xing invited pets, there were frequent exchanges between palace cars, apricot curtain invited guests to drink, and there was a villa in front of him. Lingbi Goose Water, Sang Yu Yanziliang. A bed of spring leeks is green, and ten miles of rice flowers are fragrant. There is no hunger in the prosperous times, so why bother farming? " Some people want to know how Lin Daiyu can write such a mourning poem, which is not in line with Lin's character. In fact, at that time, Daiyu was suspicious and lofty, but now she is totally self-respecting and very confident, so she is afraid of being looked down upon by others, and so is her feelings for herself and Baoyu. This self-confidence made her want to express herself. She hoped to "display her talents with peace of mind and overwhelm everyone" in order to win the praise of Princess Yuan. In this state of mind, it is reflected in the poem as a positive understanding of social and external things.
The creation of funeral songs is an important turning point in the development of Daiyu's character. Before that, Yuan Fei gave Baoyu Baochai the same gift, which was a great blow to Daiyu. In the 23rd episode, Daiyu was moved by the ballad "For you, flowers are as beautiful as jade, like fleeting time", and was at a loss for a time by Cui Tu's "Flowering Flowers Fade" and Li Yu's "Flowing Flowers Fall in Red, Various Leisure", remembering that she was ill since childhood and had no parents to take care of her. I also remember that although Baoyu became a bosom friend, he suffered from no parents' orders and no matchmaker's words, so it was hard not to be sad. As a result, Daiyu pitied flowers, cherished flowers, personified flowers and imitated flowers, created unprecedented wonders in lotus hoe burial, and wrote a song imitating Tang style, which became the most important poem to express her character. "There is another village, no matter whether the peach blossoms float in Li Fei", this is a resentment against the cold world, and it is also a resentment against the warmth of human feelings. "360 days a year, the wind and the sword press each other", which is a ruthless accusation against reality. "May you have wings this day and fly to the end of the day with flowers", which is the yearning for a free sky and a better life. "Without a trick, it will be covered by loess; Is unwilling to be humiliated and polluted, unwilling to bow down and give in. Therefore, this poem is not blindly sad, but has a kind of depressed air. The main characters of Daiyu in this period are: on the one hand, she deepened her love, on the other hand, she foresaw that she was getting farther and farther away from the success of love; On the one hand, it is more closed, isolated and self-centered, on the other hand, it is more proud to stay away from the turbid society.