brief introduction
The Star is a collection of poems, consisting of 164 short poems. Bing Xin believed in "the philosophy of love" all her life, and she thought that "with love, there is everything". In the Stars, she kept praising love. What she loves to praise most is maternal love. Bing Xin not only loves her parents, but also cherishes brotherhood. She loves her three younger brothers. In her later essay A Letter to a Little Reader, she compared her three younger brothers to three bright stars. Bing Xin praised maternal love, human love and childlike innocence. At the same time, she also praised nature, especially the sea she was familiar with as a child. Praising nature, childlike innocence and maternal love has become the eternal theme of Bing Xin's life creation. Its theme is: maternal love, nature and innocence.
"Stars in Spring Water" is recognized as the highest achievement of the poem, and it is called "star lattice" and "spring body" in contradiction. The theme embodied is: maternal love, nature and innocence, which constitutes the core of Bing Xin's "philosophy of love"
"Spring Water" is a companion piece of "Stars", which consists of 182 short poems. It was also published in the morning paper first, but the spring water came out three months later than the stars.
In Spring Water, although Bing Xin is still praising maternal love, affection, childlike innocence and nature, she has used more space to implicitly express the troubles and anguish of herself and her generation of young intellectuals. She tells her feelings in a gentle and sad tone, while exploring the meaning of life and expressing her desire to know the true face of the world.
With her unique femininity, Bing Xin wrote two poems, Stars and Springs, in fresh and beautiful language, forming a unique artistic style. First, a strong philosophy is a major artistic feature of Stars and Springs. Many poems in Stars and Spring Water are philosophical poems with profound thoughts. These profound thoughts are often combined with the concrete images depicted in poems and the profound thoughts of poets, so they still have poetic feelings and aesthetic feelings. Secondly, tenderness is another remarkable feature of Bing Xin's poems. Bing Xin's poems show a feminine tenderness everywhere. With the lyric style of "full of tenderness and sadness", she sings pure love with deep and strong feelings and depicts the beauty of nature. At the same time, it also expressed condemnation of some social ugly phenomena in a unique way. Third, the words are gentle and elegant, with natural rhythm and beautiful artistic conception. The words and expressions in Stars and Spring Water seem to be handy, revealing a gentle and elegant style everywhere.
The poem Bing Xin Ti has been popular for several years in the imitation of poets. Liu Dabai, Ye, Xu Yunuo, Zong Baihua, etc. Have written many small poems with their own characteristics. These short poems implicitly express the poet's unique interest in ordinary things and the change of his feelings in an instant with real and concise words. Together with Bing Xin's poems, they form a glittering and translucent and distant star, always flashing on the road of the development of new poetry.
background
As a famous poet in the May 4th Movement, Bing Xin's poems are associated with stars and springs. Star *** 164, spring water 182, mainly published in the morning post supplement 1922. Short poems have no separate titles, but are arranged according to serial numbers. 1923 two groups of poems have been collected and published by Commercial Press and Xinchao Society respectively. It caused a strong response at that time.
Bing Xin's novels and essays have won a wide range of readers and countless praises. It is noticed that this new literary genius has the talent of a poet. She decided to write her own poems because she was encouraged by Sun Fuyuan, a reporter from the Morning Post Supplement. He put Bing Xin's poetic miscellaneous feelings in the poem column, which greatly inspired Bing Xin. He decided to open the boundary between Chinese column and poetry column in his mind and become a poet who explores life in the form of poetry.
Bing Xin later recalled the scene when writing poems. At the height of her thirst for knowledge, she greedily reads all kinds of books and newspapers after class, and when she meets a favorite sentence, she copies it on her notebook's eyebrows in a few words. She used to be like this, sometimes writing down her miscellaneous feelings and memories anytime and anywhere. As time goes on, this figure is considerable. Although it is only three or five elements, there is always something related to personal experience behind these three or five elements. Seeing these words, I think of very kind and real scenes, and I can't bear to throw them away.
At this time, she happened to see Tagore's serial of Birds translated by Zheng Zhenduo in a magazine, which was full of poetic and philosophical words. Her heart moved and she felt that the words she had written on her notebook eyebrows could also be sorted out and copied. When copying, she chose those that were more poetic and implicit and put them together. Because they were all fragmentary ideas, she chose a paragraph that began with the word "star" and put it in the first book and named it "star".
At that time, many critics also thought that Bing Xin was influenced by Tagore. But perhaps more accurately, she discovered her own poems under the inspiration of Tagore, and the real source lies in her own "fragmentary thoughts".
Zheng Zhenduo's view is more comprehensive. He thinks that besides Tagore, Bing Xin is also influenced by quatrains and poems in classical poetry. When Bing Xin/Kloc-0 was 0/0 years old, she studied The Analects of Confucius and Tang poetry, read rhymes and learned couplets. After class, she made two four-character poems and stubbornly gave them to her husband. Her profound poetic skills are one of the reasons for her successful creation of short poems. In addition, the Japanese short song haiku translated by Zhou Zuoren is very popular and has a great influence on Bing Xin.
"Stars" and "spring water" are the meeting of Bing Xin's flashes in life exploration, which contains her knowledge and understanding of the true meaning of life and rich philosophy. Seize the flash of inspiration and condense it into short poems, which are stars and springs. Later, it was published in the "New Literature and Art" column of the Morning Post, and 1923 was published as "Stars and Springs". These more than 300 free poems with untitled aphorisms and aphorisms express the author's feelings about natural scenery and thoughts on life philosophy in the tone of natural river crabs, and praise maternal love, human love and nature. They are short in length, beautiful in writing and meaningful, which shows the unique thoughts, feelings and aesthetic consciousness of female writers. They are unique and far-reaching in the May 4th New Poetry. It is paradoxically called: "a piece of ice is free, and childhood lasts forever."
Guide reading
Star, published in 1923, is the first collection of poems created by Bing Xin. Most of the works are beautiful and crystal-clear poems praising nature, maternal love, innocence and great love on earth. These are the natural brewing of the poet's life, feelings and thoughts. Bing Xin's childhood grew up in the embrace of nature. Her pure soul was immersed in the blue sky and sea, and her girlhood was deeply influenced by China's traditional education and western missionary schools, so the philosophy of maternal love, human love and natural love was strengthened and deified, and the surging May 4th patriotic movement and new culture movement gave her a "political" baptism of new consciousness. The collision of eastern and western cultures will naturally spark in her life and thoughts.
Bing Xin's poems are rich in content, which is far from the omnipotence of "philosophy of love". There are yearning, pursuit, love, hate, dream and disillusionment in her blank poems. Each poem will give different readers different feelings because of different experiences, different knowledge, different experiences and different artistic accomplishments. Therefore, the aesthetic enjoyment of her poems is different. Only real poetry has such artistic power.
Full text of stars
foreword
19 19 Winter night, Bingzhong and his younger brother read Tagore's Birds around the stove. Bing Zhong said to me, "Don't you always say that sometimes your ideas are too fragmented and it is not easy to write jokes?" In fact, it can also be collected like this. "
From then on, I sometimes write it down in a small notebook. /kloc-in the summer of 0/920, Uncle Bing, the second brother, dug out this little notebook from the pile of books. He read it again and wrote the word "star" on the first page.
192 1 autumn, my younger brother bingji said, "sister! Can you also print these short stories on paper? " I wrote the last paragraph and published it.
It was a fragmentary idea two years ago and was evaluated by three children. This is the preface of Stars.