This light, these four walls bleached by the light;
These virtuous tables and chairs, as close as friends;
The scent of paper from ancient books bursts out The attack of the baby;
The best tea cup is as white as a virgin;
The suckling child snores in the mother's arms,
The snoring sound reports to my eldest son News of health...
This mysterious quiet night, this round peace,
A song of thanks trembles in my throat.
But the singing immediately turned into a curse,
Quiet night! I can't, can't take your bribe.
Who wants the peace within your walls?
My world has wider borders.
These four walls separate us from the din of constant war,
How can you stop my heartbeat?
It is better to let this mouth be filled with sand and mud,
others can only sing about personal solidarity!
It is best to let this head dig holes for field mice,
Let this mass of flesh and blood also feed corpse worms;
If it is just for a glass of wine, A book of poems,
The pendulum swings in leisurely silence in the night,
The moans of your neighbors can no longer be heard,
The trembling figures of widows and orphans cannot be seen. ,
Convulsions in the trenches, lunatics biting the sickbed,
and all kinds of tragedies under the grinding grind of life.
Happiness! I can't accept your private bribes now,
My world is not within this one-foot-square wall.
Listen! There was another burst of gunfire, and the god of death roared.
Quiet night! How can you stop my heartbeat?
Wen Yiduo is a patriotic poet with an original style. Under the guidance of his distinctive artistic personality and classical romantic creative methods, he has formed a fiery, intense, melancholy and frustrating artistic style. Its emotional approach is "excessive fire in a condensed form", and the two complement each other. Originality and individuality have always been what he valued and pursued diligently. As early as when he first published his new poem, he emphasized: "Personality is the essence of art. Without personality, there is no art."
When writing "Quiet Night", Wen Yiduo's unique artistic style had gradually taken shape , mature and stable. What best embodies this style is his patriotic poems. Wen Yiduo's patriotic enthusiasm is so hot, wild and exciting, burning like a fire and surging like a tide. However, his classical romantic view of art requires being reasonable and in line with artistic standards, which forms his fiery passion. Strong, melancholy artistic style. The curse and anger against the dark reality in "Quiet Night" are truly painstaking and infatuated.
Wen Yiduo used words from painting theory to describe it, calling it "color". He said: "Color is the expression of the author's personality. If this does not exist, what is the value of the work?" Reading Wen Yiduo's "Quiet Night", one can imagine his character, his loyalty to the country, and his patriotism. Fierce and deep. This is mainly because the poet further condenses and squeezes the emotion, stores it in the gate of art, and erupts in a controlled manner in a condensed form, so it appears deep and solemn. "Quiet Night" injects strong thoughts and feelings into specific artistic images or specific situations, causing them to conflict left and right, twist and turn, burst out with excitement and slowness, and gradually dig deeper to achieve emotional satisfaction. This implicit beauty is Wen Yiduo's successful attempt to inherit the excellent tradition of Chinese classical poetry. At the same time, Wen Yiduo also paid attention to drawing on the symbols, hints and other characteristics of modern Western poetry to form a unique and profound artistic realm of poetry. The melancholy style of Wen Yiduo's patriotic poems is also due to his pursuit of the beauty of new poetry, rhythm and music.
It is the modern "metrical poetry school" that conducts systematic and in-depth research on the new poetry form and achieves remarkable results. Wen Yiduo's "The Rhythm of Poetry" is a comprehensive collection of theories of the modern metrical poetry school. He advocated that meter is absolutely necessary for poetry, and poets should dance with the shackles of meter, that is, create poetry according to the requirements of the meter of poetry. Wen Yiduo proposed that "the beauty of painting" mainly emphasizes the importance of words. The so-called beauty of architecture refers to "the symmetry of stanzas and the uniformity of sentences." He believes that old rhythmic poetry may also have architectural beauty, but it always has only one format, while the formats of new poetry emerge in endlessly, and poets can create them at will, and they have "spirit" The beauty that harmonizes with the body.” Wen Yiduo drew on the "dun" in English poetry and proposed the concept of "tone ruler" based on the characteristics of Chinese language and characters. He especially advocated that each line should be composed of four sound rulers, of which there must be two "three-character rulers" format, and asserted that this format can bring new poetry into a new period.
The success of the musical beauty of Wen Yiduo's poetry lies in his ability to express his deep and wild emotions in a controlled manner in the sonorous rhythmic form. Wen Yiduo's poems have a variety of rhyming methods, but emotion is the basis. They all choose rhymes according to emotion and change rhymes according to emotion, thus conveying tortuous thoughts and feelings. For example, in the poem "Quiet Night", the emotions in the poem are sometimes calm, sometimes exciting, sometimes painful, and sometimes exciting. "If there is no confusion between the front and the back, it is the beauty of frustration." Lyrical poetry aims at expressing feelings. The emotions in Wen Yiduo's patriotic poems are mainly tortuous and restrained expressions through the objective objectification of subjective feelings and the alienation of reason and plot. As Zhu Ziqing said: “Relying more on rational control than emotional drive.
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When Wen Yiduo talked about his own experience in writing poetry, he said: “When I write poetry, I often don’t write it when I first get a certain feeling, but after the feeling has passed, and it lasts for several days. Even months later, the trivial details by this time are often forgotten. All I remember is the outline of the most fundamental and dominant emotion. Then, use imagination to dress up the outline of the vague influence and express it in words. Although the result is often empty, the flaws in the carving will never disappear. Empty works will leave no impression on readers, while explicit works often leave readers with a bad impression. Therefore, instead of carving out, it is better to leave it empty. The British poet Wordsworth also used this method in his poems. "In this process of "cold treatment", the seemingly calm emotions in memories gradually disappear and are replaced by increasingly intense, purified and concentrated emotions. When accumulated to a certain point, they will erupt like a volcano. Therefore, it is "hot in the cold". The feelings that have been put aside have not cooled down, but have become more condensed, expanded and white-hot.
The image of "Quiet Night" is a critical metaphor for reality and culture. . If "Dead Water" is a metaphor for the darkness of reality and culture, and expresses the poet's will to seek truth in the face of ugliness, then "Quiet Night" in the collection "Dead Water" reflects the poet's traditional view of life and aesthetics in the context of suffering. The negation of taste contains the spirit of bearing suffering. The criticism of Jingye expresses the poet's choice in this conflict: there is contempt for the traditional transcendent personality and the rejection of the "oriental culture" realm of "rhyme and elegance". , expressing the humanitarian sentiment of bearing suffering.
Later, he shouldered the responsibility of morality with iron shoulders, and even used his life to practice morality and become benevolent. It can also be said to be the responsible consciousness in "Quiet Night"