This is a lyric work, and it is also one of Ji Bolun's famous prose poems.
After reading Song of the Waves, we can't help but think of the poet himself and his passionate and bitter love for the motherland through the images of the waves and the coast. Anyone familiar with this poet knows that his motherland-Lebanon under feudalism and colonialism-did not give him much. As early as a teenager, in order to survive, he and his family had to leave their hometown and come to the United States thousands of miles away to survive. Later, the poet who was determined to serve the country was exiled in vain. I don't even have a foothold in my own land, and I have to live in a foreign country for a long time. However, this separation from his native land caused by poverty and the evil of the ruling class not only did not dilute his homesickness for the motherland, but cooled his ardent affection. On the contrary, he loves and thinks more deeply. He not only organizes Arab writers who have been exiled overseas to fight for the independence, freedom and democracy of the motherland, but also often expresses his deep love for the motherland in his poems. Song of the Waves is a masterpiece of this kind of poetry. With the help of the love image of the waves and the coast, he expressed his unswerving feelings and ardent childlike heart for the motherland with twists and turns.
The image of waves in this poem is very touching. She is infatuated with lovers' beach, passionate and deeply in love. At dawn, she vowed to be faithful in her lover's ear; In the evening, she sang a poem praying for love. At the high tide, she was full of enthusiasm and hugged her lover tightly; When the tide receded, she was inseparable and threw herself at her lover's feet with attachment. Facing her sincere and passionate love, the coast is extremely grateful. He kissed her and tolerated her willfulness. However, the "cliff" connected with the coast does not sympathize with her or understand her. No matter how she flatters him, smiles and confides in him, she always turns a deaf ear and ignores him. His attitude made the waves feel sad and distressed. In the silent night, everything on the earth fell asleep in the arms of the sleeping god, but she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. However, her love affair has not diminished or shaken her faith in love, and she is determined to "kill the years like this" as long as there is "one breath left". Show infinite loyalty. This attitude of the waves towards love also reflects the poet's deep love for the motherland.
Ocean waves not only have the characteristics of human beings, but also can express the poet's feelings well. For example, her "willfulness", restless mentality, mood changes in the morning and evening, different actions of ebb and flow, and so on. Consistent with the characteristics of the waves. This also shows that this anthropomorphic image is very successful and shows the outstanding artistic talent of the poet.
Everything in Ji Bolun's works seems to be the poet's shadow, his props, full of his breath and beating his poetic heart. In his literary world, everything seems to converge into a huge choir, singing in a whirl, praising life, nature and love, while life, nature and love seem to be just different expressions and different names of the same grand process in which the universe runs, in order to prove a final harmony-such an idea always makes us feel deja vu, because it is purely oriental.
Different from the real world, in this prose poem, the waves are endowed with romantic flower images by the poet. It first appeared as a lover of the "coast". In the first four quarters, the image of a woman in love is laid out, and in the rhythm of ebb and flow, her lover is indispensable. Next, this female image melted into a deeper metaphor, and it became the guardian of the human world-"The night was quiet, everything was sleeping, but I stayed up all night". In the picture composed of starry sky, mermaid, reef and lover, there is an eternal sound, "Sometimes singing, sometimes sighing", and the singing of the waves is also a sigh of the waves.
Therefore, we can understand the connotation of love for waves in the poem, which is not only love for the coast, but also a wider love for everything in the world. This broad love shines with maternal brilliance-"the true meaning of love is awakening", because I love the world, so even if "staying up late makes me look haggard", I will protect the world, its harmony and its beauty.
Here, we only see the image of the poet himself. The poet should be the guardian of all kinds of beautiful values in this world, as written at the end of the poem: "This is my life; This is my life's work ",where the image of the waves has been transformed into the poet's own firm voice.
The poet's hometown is located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, which may be the reason why the image of the ocean in his prose poems is so cordial. In the dead of night, the dreamy picture of the sea patting the coast alone and singing a sigh must be the source of this prose poem, which can't be written by those who just think about the sea on the map and don't wander around the beach for a long time.
Ji Bolun's prose poems are numerous, rich in content and diverse in style, including narrative, lyrical, argumentative, story-like, fable-like, dramatic, simple dialogue-like, letter-like, line-by-line poems, long stories, short stories, short poems, aphorisms and so on. He left a very precious legacy for the world's treasure house of prose poems.