By chance, I read Altasol. The author of this book, Vicente Huidobro, is known as "one of the four great poets in Chile in the 20th century". Influenced by his mother, he published his first poem at the age of 12. Maybe his mother means something to him. Therefore, from poetry, we can also read a lot of praise for women.
Besides, Vicente Huidobro is one of the avant-garde poets in Latin America, and Altasol is also a representative work of avant-garde poetry. Different from China's traditional poetry, it gives me an illusion in form, content and meaning, as if I have never read such a poem and never really understood "what is poetry".
Vicente Huidobro is proud of being a poet. He believes that "a poet should break the norms of language, grammar and aesthetics", just as he gave up his wife for a girl of 15. He never wants to be bound by rules.
Therefore, his poems pay attention to innovation, visual experience and novel typesetting. Those words, sometimes uniform and sometimes patchy, seem to show the rebellion engraved in his blood. For example, in the sixth song of Altasol, his typesetting is like this:
Tricky
night
knot
That heart
Another time, another place
The knot is shaking.
The flexible hearts of the gods
One two three
four
I don't know if you have seen it. In this passage, the poet is like a performer, while those vivid words are twisting their bodies and dancing happily with the rhythm. I don't know if you heard it. It seems that a hand bounces on the black and white keyboard, making not only notes, but also words that jump with the fingertips. ...
As for poetry, I always think it is a condensed text description, otherwise the teacher will not turn a few simple words into a long paragraph in class. But Vincent Guidobro doesn't think so. He wants his poems to be different. To this end, he wrote: "Everything has internal words, hidden words and words under its name. This is the word that poets should find. " I think this is a poem in his heart. Every poem is a magical story, telling a wonderful life.
For example, in the fifth song, there is a description of the "mill": "A donkey-like mill, a fat mill ..." After reading this, I both lamented the magic of the language and praised the author's "greatness", and actually used 1 1 page, a * * 198. Let me deeply feel the charm of language, but also feel the poet's free and easy, willful soul.
What is a poet? I don't have an answer, but I think Vicente Guidobro is crazy. Otherwise, who will break the word "grinding" or even cut it into pieces to make people appreciate the taste?
Reading is "a hundred readers have a hundred Hamlets". What about poetry? Vicente Huidobro believes that creating a poem is just like nature creating a tree, so different poems should have different meanings, which is his "road of creationism".
From this perspective, a poet is not only a poet, but also a creator and an artist. Unlike those artists who paint and sculpt, his tool is a pen. Fashionable words and intangible "words" are intertwined, depicting different personalities, writing different rhythms, and drawing a world that belongs only to him.
Reading Altasol, we can feel the agitation of the soul and the unruly personality of the poet, as if listening to a magnificent concert and watching a thrilling detective reasoning movie, inexplicably walking through life again and again, step by step towards the end of life.
As the poem says, "Time waits for no one", progress is to constantly break through yourself, while stopping is to accumulate strength for better progress. So, if you are always immersed in busyness, always at a loss, or start to feel that life is lifeless, you can't find your direction, you don't know where your heart is ... and then read a poem.
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