Paper Boat is a representative song in A Crescent Moon.
This poem is full of childish imagination, and depicts children's naive, lovely and imaginative personality and psychology in detail. In order to highlight imaginary things and various touching patterns and whimsy with children's characteristics, the poet pays attention to the use of restrictive and decorative words.
For example, a paper boat is a paper boat with my name and the name of the village where I live written in big black letters. Flowers are "blooming at dawn"; The basket is full of dreams. At night, my paper boat floats slowly under the midnight starlight.
These words or phrases not only make my whimsy clear and prominent, but also vivid and concrete, making children's interest stronger.
Second, the original text
Tagore, paper boat
I put the paper boats one by one in the swift stream every day.
I wrote my name and the name of the village where I lived in big black letters on the paper boat.
I hope people living in different places can get this paper boat and know who I am.
I put the beautiful flowers growing in the garden on my boat.
I hope these dawn flowers can be safely brought to the shore at night.
I threw the paper boat into the water and looked up at the sky.
I saw a small cloud covered with white sails of the wind.
I wonder what my playmates are in the sky. Put these boats down and race with me!
When night came, my face was buried in my arm,
I dreamed that my boat was floating slowly under the midnight starlight.
The sleeping fairy sat on the boat with a basket full of dreams.
Extended data:
Theme of the work
Tagore believes that love creates the world and the essence of the world is love; Motherly love and children's love are the most sincere and pure emotions of human beings; This feeling is infused in everyone's ordinary life, and too much familiarity often makes it unnoticed or even numb, almost forgotten. However, the theory of "defamiliarization" always looks at the problem from a brand-new perspective and constantly updates the way of perception in the literary world. The essence of defamiliarization theory is to get rid of the concealment and deception of daily experience and the mechanical and habitual way of thinking.
In Crescent Moon, the poet sometimes incarnates innocent and lovely children, and sometimes incarnates gentle and kind mother. Through the children's novel and lively imagination and the mother's pure and loving words, this love is turned into a beautiful concrete image, which has produced fascinating charm.
In his poems, the poet's love for God is reflected in his love for nature and the noblest divinity of mankind. In Tagore's mind, God, truth and infinity are synonymous words. Both man and nature are finite, and finite and infinite must be unified and integrated, so that the world will be full of love and show joy and harmony. In other words, in a harmonious and unified world, finite is infinite, and infinite exists in finite.
The God in Tagore's heart is not as empty, lofty and hard to find as the God in the West. It exists in nature and human beings, and it is actually "infinite". "From infinity to finite spring-that is," truth "and" goodness ",that is to say, finity expresses the existence of infinite god with truth, goodness and beauty.
If Tagore praises children's love for their mothers, it is like a clean stream, which produces beautiful and crystal-clear beauty under the refraction of sunlight; Then, Tagore's description of children's love for nature is like a bamboo flute on a moonlit night, and the aesthetic feeling is so quiet and pure. Tagore believes that the most fundamental principle of the universe is harmony and coordination, and man and nature are interdependent and harmonious in essence. In his view, the relationship between man and nature is like the relationship between a child and his mother. Only by embracing nature can human beings find "the road to the other side of the endless sea of happiness".
Children's pure love for nature represents human's desire to "embrace nature". "Crescent Moon Collection" depicts Ding Mingli's warm and elegant picture-the world of poetry in which children and nature are integrated. It takes us back to the time when we sat in the mud and used dead branches and broken stems as beds, and let us relive the children's dreams of using shells as tableware, fallen leaves as boats and dewdrops on green grass as beads on the beach.
Artistic feature
Tagore adopted three narrative perspectives in the New Moon Collection: children, mothers and poets.
Every poem is a pure perspective, either for the mother, for the child, or for the poet's own omniscient perspective; The singularity of the protagonist's identity in poetry from a simple perspective excludes the complexity and diversity of the individual identity role as a social person, which leads to the simplicity and novelty of the poetic language in plot narration and emotional expression, and does not include the utilitarian thinking of secular society and the stereotyped thinking of people's cognition of things after multiple socialization; It reflects the poet's emotional feelings more than people's usual rational cognition.
Among the 37 songs in "Crescent Moon Collection", 20 songs are written in a child's tone, which belongs to a pure child's perspective. 12 songs are presented in the form of mother's love stories, and also express children's actions and psychology.
Another five poems are about poets who are divorced from their mother and son, or look down on the family relationship between mother and son, or recall their happy childhood like grown-up children; The latter two can be regarded as the alienation of children's perspective. This unique aesthetic perspective creates a fantastic and unfamiliar atmosphere of poetry collection. ?
Tagore's attitude of "viewing things from me" and "living by loving things" makes the natural landscape in the collection of poems "Crescent Moon" have a strong subjective color of the poet.
In the poem, people can't see the poisonous sun and dry land in Bangladesh, but only the poetic and beautiful landscapes such as lush trees, white reeds and wandering ducks. Du Fu once explained that when people look at nature with emotion, it will naturally take shape.
The poet outlined a quiet and leisurely meticulous painting with delicate brushstrokes, expressing the poet's infinite yearning for a harmonious life.
Even a night full of sin will be full of poetry in the poet's pen. In the dark forest, "fireflies shine and consume their light", "pigeons coo where they live, and fairy anklets jingle in the starry night" (Sleepstealer). The poet's heart is full of love for everything, so in the dark night, his eyes are full of fireflies and stars; What the ears catch is the low voice of the dove of peace and the sweet jingle of the fairy anklets.
There is not a word about love in the poem, but the poet's love for nature permeates this wonderful scenery.
In terms of artistic expression, The Crescent Moon Collection is light and beautiful in artistic conception, simple in language, vivid in rhythm and full of musical sense. Its overall form is a novel and lively prose style, which gives people a fresh and pleasant feeling when reading. In addition, the 37 small poems in the complete collection are very cleverly conceived. Almost all of them contain philosophy, which fully shows childlike innocence, maternal love and natural beauty. But the three are not isolated, but based on emotion and scenery: reason, emotion and scenery have reached a close and harmonious unity.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia: Crescent Moon Collection-Appreciation of Works