Author: Wislawa Sin Posca (Poland)
Reading Poems for You: Daichin Tana || Lead Singer of Haya Orchestra
To describe the cloud
Very fast—
instant
They will become something else.
Their characteristics:
Shape, color, posture, structure
Never repeat.
Without the burden of memory,
They ignored the facts.
How can they witness anything—
When something happens, it collapses on all sides.
Compared with the cloud,
Life is stronger,
Endless, almost eternal.
Next to the cloud,
Even stones are like our brothers,
We can trust,
And the cloud is just a frivolous distant cousin.
Let those who want to live live,
And then die one by one,
The cloud is right on this point.
not at all
Don't be surprised.
In your life.
I, unfinished, above life,
They walked by in great strides.
They have no obligation to die with us.
They may not be seen when they are fluttering.
Translators: Chen Li and Zhang Fenling.
(Excerpted from Everything is Silent as a Mystery, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House)
Poetry theory
"In the language of every word of poetry, nothing is ordinary or normal-any stone and any cloud on it; Any day and any subsequent night; Especially any kind of existence, the existence of anyone in this world. " Polish poetess Veslava Sin Posca said this when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. As the third poetess to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and the fourth Polish writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, her poems are often called "with unusual and tenacious purity and strength".
Meditation is the main feature of Simboska's poems. She does not shy away from death, torture and war. Everything in the world, daily life is also her source of material. But how can a poem that has always been regarded as "Chun Xue" hurt the hearts of ordinary readers? Sin Posca's explanation is, "... poets are eager to be published, read and understood, but they rarely let themselves surpass the level of ordinary people and monotonous daily life. Knowing her identity as an "ordinary citizen", Simboska fixed her eyes on "monotonous daily life".
Cloud was written in her later years. Through the comparison between cloud and life, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion that cloud is changeable, unreliable and even indifferent; Compared with clouds, "life is much stronger" and "stones are like our brothers". "Let people who want to live live/then die, one after another/Yunhe is not surprised." The poet described death with a calm attitude, but also expressed his fearless attitude towards death. At this time, the cloud is no longer a free-floating concrete, but embodies the poet's spirit-looking down on life from the perspective of the third person, for her, death has completed a certain order.
music theory
The score is edited by Schumann's second movement of Violin Concerto in D minor, and the overall mood and melody are similar to clouds. Schumann is a passionate and impatient person. When his feelings emerge, that kind of heat will make his creation in one go. This personalized and even neurotic feature is also reflected in this slow and melodious concerto. Its mid-high frequency is relatively low, its brightness is low, its color is relatively dim, and it is full of meditation and calmness. The voice is very gentle, and the feeling of listening is very comfortable and pleasant, just like the "cloud" in the poem.