Ai Lvya [French]
Hand in hand, just the two of us.
I feel at home wherever I am.
It was dark and the trees were shaded.
In the house by the fire
The street was empty in the scorching sun.
The crowd threw a puzzled look at us.
People around you are either rational or crazy.
Get close to children or adults
Love is not mysterious.
The two of us are proof.
People who love each other always feel at home.
(Translated by Li Qingan)
Everyone wants to have a home, a small world of their own and a warm harbor. But people still have the deepest desire, that is, to find a home for the soul and let it have a peaceful harbor.
Ai Lvya's The Two of Us is to tell people where the soul belongs and where it can enjoy peace and stability. Holding hands, it's just the two of us/wherever we are, we feel at home. Love, when two people love each other deeply, the soul will have a home, and the soul will no longer wander. On the journey of life, only two people, as long as they are holding hands, holding each other's love, holding a dependence and holding a real dependence, will feel the peace of mind and spiritual comfort, whether walking at the end of the world or at the ends of the earth, just like at home. Taking "home" as a metaphor, this sentence vividly and aptly conveys the warm, peaceful and comforting feeling that love gives people. After receiving this summary, the poet listed various historical situations and various world situations that people may face in their life journey, and further elaborated their intentions. "The sky is dark and the trees are swaying", which is a gloomy and terrible atmosphere, symbolizing that life is like nature and it is impossible to hang a brilliant sun in the air forever. The sun always goes down, and the golden petals of the moon will not always accompany you at night. When people are trapped by bad luck, a heart with love and a heart without love will be completely different. A heart without love is like a dark night with shadows of trees, without warmth and comfort in the cold. On the contrary, a heart that is accepted and comforted by love, as the famous British poet Lawrence said, "a small piece of quiet core in the heart is like a violet eye", can breed infinite tenderness and light. "The House by the Fire" is a warm but inevitably lonely atmosphere. Away from the crowd, locked the hut, and lit the fire for a long night, how much a story or a midnight song is needed at this moment. Love is a fairy tale in winter, stirring the flame in the furnace. This is a serenade that shortens the night. A warm and loving home will not make people miserable in the long night. "The scorching sun, there is no one on the street", which is a burning, depressing and lonely atmosphere. And in this kind of depression, as long as there is love, there will be a wisp of emotional wind, which will cut through the scorching sun, pour down a cool road, infiltrate Fu Ling, and promote the green rhyme of happy spring, and will not feel empty again. "The crowd throws puzzled eyes at us", which is an atmosphere that is not understood or mixed with misunderstanding and slander, and is the loneliness of being in the general crowd. Misunderstanding eyes sometimes stifle and suffocate people's souls. But once you have "hand in hand" love, you don't care about other people's eyes. Love is a warm roof, which can block the worldly ups and downs. "People around you are either rational or crazy" is an atmosphere that is difficult to get along with and lacks harmony. Those who are too rational hold ice cubes and sneer at the fiery love with their cold noses; Irrational people trample on pure feelings with crazy insults. But if two people "arm in arm", a wall will be built in their hearts, and the ridicule of "reason" and the humiliation of "madness" will not be heard in their ears. False moral sense and advocates of moral sense are powerless in front of true lovers. "Being close to children or adults" is a harmonious atmosphere. Once a person has love, his heart will be immersed in a full, happy and cheerful mood. Then no matter who he gets along with, no matter who he is with, it will cause a gentle harmony because of this psychological pleasure. Love is not mysterious at all/the two of us are proof/people who love each other always feel at home. After listing all kinds of life situations above, I echo the previous article and repeat that love is the habitat of the soul, so "it always feels like home" is as simple as that, and it is not mysterious at all. This poem is an expression of the appearance of people who have tasted the taste of love and a beautiful voice of people whose hearts are no longer wandering. This is to extract the synaesthesia of all lovers, so the feeling of love is accurately captured.
The style of the poem is cordial and simple, and "the two of us" appear repeatedly in the poem. It seems that there is a pair of men and women who love each other, holding hands and standing in front of them with a satisfied, happy and gratified smile. They say that "lovers always feel at home" and "the two of us are proof", which makes people have to be moved and infected by the feelings experienced by these two people. This simple wind produces an attractive charm. However, this poem is unpretentious, but full of images. Symbols and metaphors are laid out sentence by sentence, and abstracted in images, which makes people ponder over various atmospheres of cold, loneliness, depression, emptiness, disharmony or harmony in a three-dimensional lens. It is worth noting that this image arrangement has a sense of fragmentation at first reading, with one sentence in the east and one sentence in the west; A sentence in the sky, an underground sentence; Cold sentences and warm sentences, with a big blank in the middle, seem to be intermittent and illogical, but it is precisely this fragmentary appearance that expresses the complex leap of "home feeling" without leaving the central meaning of love in the jump. This expression makes the poet freely emphasize tension and pursue elasticity along the subconscious track. Language is also simple and clear, which contains wisdom.