"Missing"
Nalan Rongruo
It will make a person full and become an ear of wheat and a grape.
Like reeds filled with wind.
Among the stars
I do not recognize you by the size of your light
.
The faint clouds in the distant mountains
Only you are the most sober and quiet.
I lay out for you the vastness of the sea, the shores of the lakes, and the islands.
Available for getting lost.
The theme content of short poems needs to be highly concentrated, the images need to be fresh and unique, and the artistic conception needs to be constructed through the perfect integration of the subjective and objective worlds. Nalan Rongruo's poem "Missing You" blends the interior and exterior scenes seamlessly, making it highly contagious and inspiring.
The first and second lines of the poem use two metaphors, "It will make a person full and become ears of wheat and grapes. / Like reeds filled with wind." People's lives are enriched and "filled up" by "missing" them, like "ears of wheat and grapes." Why use "ears of wheat and grapes" as a metaphor? On the one hand, this is from the perspective of missing, which visualizes the invisible missing; on the other hand, missing exists in expectation, just like farmers' expectations for "ears of wheat", which exists in the bitterness and sweetness of the soul. It's like tasting grapes. "Like reeds filled with wind", here, through the verb "fill", the dynamic fullness is written, and the intensity of longing is vividly described. The poet uses metaphors of ordinary things to make readers feel the fullness and depth of longing. Next, at first glance, what the poet wrote does not follow the previous meaning, but makes a "jump" to write about the feelings of the subject "I" of longing for the object of longing "you". The reason "I" miss you is not because you are the brightest "among the stars", but because "only you are the most sober and quiet". In this world, you can be so awake and quiet, how difficult and not easy it is, but you did it, that's why you are so attracted to me and make me miss you; but your most sober and quiet may not be the same thing. It's a good thing, because you stand out from the crowd, because "everyone is drunk" and you are alone, you are incompatible with this world, and you will undoubtedly get into trouble. Therefore, in order to prevent you from being harmed, I thought of "arranging the vast mist, lake shores and islands for you." / Available for getting lost”. My "arrangement" is the wish from the bottom of my heart. Whether my arrangement will be recognized and accepted by you, whether you will be "lost", everything is left unsaid. The poet leaves enough room for readers to taste here.
This short poem, from writing about missing itself to writing about the reasons for missing, to writing about the wishes of the person who misses, is worth learning regardless of the emotional foil or the rendering of the scenery. The symbolic meaning is here. It's quite profound in one song. The biggest impression it gives me is, first, the refinement of poetic language, and second, the emotional experience expressed through the integration of the subjective and objective worlds, which can step by step push the connotation of poetry into a deeper state of thinking.