First of all, the fact is vague.
Generally speaking, the creation of lyric poetry stems from the feeling of specific things, so in its artistic conception, we can always see some real personnel scenes. However, the author (Meng Meng) seems to deliberately blur the events of all the main characters. Who is the suitor? What is he after? We don't know; What is the identity of the hunted "Iraqi"? Why is he so hard to catch? We don't know; It is impossible to confirm whether they are male or female. "Iraqis", in particular, have no voice, no appearance and no appearance. In the upper reaches of the river for a while, in the lower reaches of the river for a while, in the middle of the water for a while, and in the grass beside the water for a while. It is doubtful whether he really exists. Undoubtedly, due to the fuzziness of the pursuer, especially the pursued, the whole pursuit of people, things and things. But it is precisely because of this fact that the artistic conception of poetry is so ethereal and symbolic.
Second, the ethereal image
In fact, the scene described in the poem is not a real person, but a spiritual home. This psychological image is not the memory of a real thing I have experienced, but a typical psychological situation that is synthesized, condensed and blurred by many similar events and feelings. The biggest feature of this psychological state is that it is not sticky and ethereal. On the Water Side, due to the vagueness of pursuers and pursuers, the seemingly real scenic rivers and roads, even the tracing route upstream and downstream, and the "water center" where Yiren is located have also become virtual symbolic images. Don't delve into when, where and what rivers and mountains they are, otherwise, Iraqis are contradictory in the upper and lower reaches of the river, and even why two people don't cross the river.
Third, the overall symbol of artistic conception
The symbol of poetry is not a symbolic figure of speech or technique used in a word or sentence, but an overall symbol of artistic conception. "Being on the water side" is a common situation in life, so are the dilemma of "following it, the road is blocked and long" and the fantasy of "following it, wandering in the middle of the water". People may often be baptized by a complete emotional flow, from the excitement of pursuing to the troubles of being blocked, and then to the melancholy of being lost, they are often affected by how painful it is to go upstream or how happy it is to go downstream. Readers can think of the situation of love and the experience of arousing love from here, and also think of their ideals, careers, future situations and arouse many life experiences from here. The overall symbol of artistic conception makes it truly have an inexhaustible philosophical significance of life. Wang Guowei once compared this poem with Yan Shu's "Butterfly Lovers", "Last night, the west wind adjusted the trees, and I was alone in the tall building, looking at the horizon", and thought it was the second most ".
The vagueness of facts, the emptiness of images and the overall symbol of artistic conception are three aspects of a problem. From the vagueness of facts to the nothingness of images to the symbol of the whole, this is roughly the process of constructing the artistic conception of symbolic poetry.