Ai Qing
It's just a plane.
But unfathomable.
It loves truth the most.
Never hide your shortcomings.
It is loyal to those who look for it.
Anyone can find himself in it.
Or die drunk.
Or temples like frost and snow.
Someone likes it.
Because you are beautiful.
Someone avoided it.
Because it's simple.
There will even be people
I can't wait to break it.
This is a philosophical poem praising things. When reading, you can feel clear and rational thinking, because it incorporates the poet Ai Qing's profound experience of life.
The poet constructs the whole article with occasional short stanzas, in which the first three stanzas describe the characteristics of the mirror from the front and the last four stanzas describe the experience of the mirror.
Regarding the characteristics of the mirror, the poet did not use many words to describe it, only a few lines of indirect description, such as "an airplane", "loving the truth" and "being loyal to the person looking for it". This is because, in the poet's eyes, the image of the mirror has been divorced from the concrete image and has become a rational reference, and the mirror itself does not need to waste pen and ink. However, the poet did not fall into a direct rational trap. On the contrary, he gave his poems a peculiar aesthetic effect. For example, the first sentence "only one plane/unfathomable" compares "plane" with "unfathomable": the former is clear at a glance, but the latter cannot be grasped; The former is purely superficial realism, while the latter is deep excavation, which melts into the poet's feelings. "It loves truth the most/never hides its shortcomings", and in the continuation of reason, the poet continues to develop poetry along profound images. The reflection of the plane, straight ahead, unabashed dodge, this is the truth. In front of it, anyone can see himself clearly, whether it's a drunken beauty or an old white hair. Because of this, some people find their own beauty and like it; Some people dare not look directly at themselves in front of it, avoid its ugliness, and even become angry from embarrassment. I can't wait to break it. The world is complicated, and the mirror may be naive, but it is serious and meticulously reflects the beauty and ugliness of life. In this sense, the mirror image in poetry is not a concrete object, but an abstract object generally recognized by human beings.
After reading this poem, we cannot but admire the poet's profound and keen insight. Through the "one plane" on the surface of the image, the poet saw its "unfathomable" essence, and raised the image to the universal height of human cognition, so that reason was surpassed. In fact, everyone can see what he has done and his soul in the mirror. The poem "Mirror" condenses the poet's thinking about life, which can be described as original.
I don't know if the poet is interested. The poem "Mirror" presents an antagonistic state in structure, such as the contrast between "flat" and "unfathomable" in mirror shape, the contrast between "drunk" and "temples are like frost and snow", and the contrast between "likeness" and "avoidance" and "broken" constitutes a strong contrast.
Although this poem has obvious prosaic tendency, the composition of lines is relatively neat, the language is very concise, and the relationship between images is also clear and picturesque, thus showing a strong rational color and giving people a strong poetic rhyme. We can see the poet's skillful skills.
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