[Russia and Soviet Union] vinokourov
I remember a dead man in the field,
Wearing a tattered military coat,
There are no shoes on your feet.
A bunch of bloody flowers
Bloom on the face.
The victim lay still,
Just staring.
A kite is soaring in the sky. ...
A hand that has lost its color
Tattooed the words "Najia".
(translated by Huang Chenglai)
Yevgeny mikhailovich Vino Korov (1925-) is a Russian poet in the Soviet Union. A "frontline generation" poet who grew up during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Born into a military family. He studied in middle school before the Great Patriotic War and transferred to artillery school after the war broke out. 1943 as an artillery platoon leader, went to the front. From then on, he began to write poems. After the war, he entered Gorky College of Literature and 195 1 graduated. In the same year, he published his first collection of poems, The Collection of Duty Poems. In this respect, he became a poet by writing about war. The main works in the early stage include poetry anthology Blue, Wartime Lyrics, Exposure and so on. Since 1970s, his poems have turned to the theme of daily life, that is, the so-called "thought poems" that explore "morality" and "philosophy". His later works include Arrival of Material Resources and Sharp Contrast.
Don't forget flowers, published in 1957, which belongs to the poet's early creation. The whole poem consists of two sections, *** 10. Poetry begins with "I remember". This beginning not only shows that this poem was written by the poet with his own eyes, but also shows that this poem was written by the poet drawing inspiration from painful memories. The poem shows the common scenes in the middle of the war, but because it is full of rich imagination and association, it contains extremely profound social content, so it gives people a lot of inspiration.
In the first three lines of this poem, the poet tries to exaggerate the sadness and desert atmosphere. It is conceivable that not long ago, this field was once a battlefield filled with smoke. Although the smoke has cleared now, the traces of war are still visible. The young soldier who gave his life in the baptism of blood and fire lay dead on the battlefield. He is "wearing a tattered military coat" and "has no shoes on his feet". As you can imagine from this costume, he experienced countless cruel battles, bullets and lights destroyed his military coat, and fierce pursuit made him lose his shoes. He was so brave and fearless until he gave his youth and life. He fell down and lay in the field, looking lonely, which made people feel sad and desolate. The description of this scene is to pave the way for the following. In the last two lines of this poem, the poet wrote: "a flower with blood in it" and "blooming around the face". Don't forget that Huanong is a symbol of love. In this desert field, beside this lonely corpse, a cluster of Huanong, which symbolizes beautiful love, is "blooming" around the face of the deceased. This symbolic detail description tells people. The "field" is by no means heartless, and the dead are by no means lonely. Love has not forgotten this soldier. She clings to his face with her warm flowers of love, and always accompanies him with lingering and passionate love. This is a bunch of "blood-stained flowers", which is cultivated with the blood of soldiers, so it is more bright and dazzling, making people more happy and envious. Although the soldier lost his life, he has eternal love and no force can take it away from him. Love will always soothe his soul, and he will always enjoy the right to love.
In the second paragraph of the poem, the poet traces the soldier's instant feelings and rich inner world at the end of his life through detailed description, which shows that his heart is full of pursuit of beauty and cherish of love. Love has never left his body and mind since he bid farewell to his lover and went to the battlefield. On the March, in the cold trench, or in the battle with the enemy in the rain of bullets, or at the time of rest, he really embraced this sincere love. But now, he wants to say goodbye to everything in this world On this battlefield, "a kite" is flying high. He stared at him silently, knowing that his body would soon be swallowed up by this kite. But he is not sad, because the body can disappear as much as possible, and the love he has will always accompany his pure soul and will never be swallowed up by pecking. Isn't his "bloodless hand" with the words "Najia" tattooed on it showing people the indelible power of this love? The name "that family" is not only tattooed on his hand, but also deeply engraved in his soul. The name gave him comfort, warmth, encouragement and infinite strength. The name "Najia" not only accompanied him through the days and nights of those wars, but also accompanied him to another world. He has no regrets, because he still misses her and loves her to the death. He is a veritable "Najia" and an unforgettable love; He is happy, because this cluster of "Don't forget flowers" cultivated with his blood is in full bloom, and this cluster of flowers of love will never be defeated by her youthful brilliance!
Don't forget the flowers is the most typical and representative poem describing the theme of war. War is cruel, and the poet neither deliberately exaggerates those horrible scenes, nor avoids blood and death. In this poem, the poet wrote about vilen in the desert, blood and death, but it was so real and plain, neither elaborate nor exaggerated, and even hid the poet's feelings. The poet's purpose is not only to show readers the desert, blood and death. What is important is that the poet hopes that people can understand the rich connotation hidden in the depths through these visual images and feel the poet's high generalization and deep thinking about it. Therefore, the poet not only grasped some details with specific content or symbolic significance, such as a "dead man" wearing a tattered military coat, lying on the ground with no shoes on his feet, a bunch of bloody flowers blooming on his face, a kite flying high in the sky, eating dead human flesh and a dead man. This writing method guides readers from concrete to abstract, from perceptual to rational, from phenomenon to essence, which not only sublimates the understanding of the dead, but also produces an artistic force that can shock readers' hearts. This is a feature of this poem, and it is also the difference between poets and contemporary poets in writing war themes.