Chen's "Window" (1) Your window is open to the sun and blue sky in April. Why do you cover it with heavy curtains and let the spring breeze slip away like smoke? How can I find those lonely footprints in your quiet window? How will I find my lost sigh? Let the starry night bring you my nostalgia and carefree sleep, and I silently walk past your window like a stranger. (2) emptiness locks your window and my sunshine. Heavy curtains blocked the eyes, leaving the evening breeze still, and people were haggard in the house. You hold the lamp that reflects my shadow, and I am lost alone in the endless dusk. I have restless dreams and cold winters, and my window opens to the silent starry sky at night.
Time background
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a large number of young poets appeared, such as Xin Di and Chen. Because of their confusion and thinking about the value and hardship of life, they have a spiritual appeal to western modernism and put forward "poetry modernization", which requires poetry to reflect social problems and express personal feelings at the same time. The communication between them requires poetry to give full play to the characteristics of thinking in images and combine knowledge with sensibility. And a lot of poetry practice, forming the "Nine Leaves Poetry School", this poem is the practice of this proposition.
Creation background
This poem was written in April 1939, and the author lives in Chengdu. Although the author is a scholar, he cares about the times and people's worries. The poet's thoughts run in the cold winter and fight in the nightmare. Through symbols and associations, this poem interweaves fantasy and reality with implicit language, expressing the poet's longing for light, his struggle against reality and his melancholy and painful mood in that special era.
Analysis and appreciation
The first layer, the poet's vision for the light. The sun outside the window, the blue sky in April and the warm spring breeze are the poet's fantasy and the poet's vision. However, these are separated by heavy curtains, searching and sighing. Poetry is suggestive: isn't the curtain the iron curtain? Isn't the bright sun the glory of truth and the hope of the nation? The second layer, the poet's melancholy mood. The "empty desert" should not be time and space, but should be the characteristic of that era. At dusk, in the "dark room" without the sun, people have "uneasy dreams" in the cold night. What makes people feel sorry? It's not profound. It's all outside the poem. But the poet's persistent pursuit has always been towards the "starry sky". Your window may be hope or longing. My window corresponds to this, disappointment. The first floor and the second floor are basically symmetrical. The Sun on the first floor and the Sun, Curtain, Curtain, Spring Breeze and Night Breeze on the second floor are looking for and gone, and you are carrying ... your lamp, Lost and so on, but the second floor is obviously better than the first floor. The first floor is "starry sky", which may bring you "carefree sleep", while the second floor is "restless sleep" and "silent starry sky". The first and second layers, using symbols and associations and implicit language, describe the poet's spiritual experience process from "seeking" to "losing" and from "losing" to "endless dusk" in two situations of hope and disappointment.
So "window" symbolizes the soul.