Red candle? 》
Author: Wen Yiduo
Ah!
Such a red candle!
Poet!
Spit out your heart and compare it,
But what about ordinary colors?
Red candle!
Who made the wax?-for your body.
Who lit the fire-lit the soul?
Why do you have to burn the wax to ashes?
And let it out?
Repeated mistakes;
Contradiction! Conflict!
Red candle!
Nothing wrong, nothing wrong!
It should "light" your light-
This is the natural way.
Red candle!
Once made, it will burn!
Burn it! Burn it!
The dream of burning the world,
The blood of the boiling world-
Save their souls,
Smash their prison!
Red candle!
When your heart is burning,
It was the day when tears began.
Red candle!
The craftsman created you,
It was originally used for burning.
Now it's burning,
Why are you crying?
Oh! I know!
It is the residual wind that invades your light,
When your fever is unstable,
I was so anxious that I cried!
Red candle!
Flow! How can it not flow?
Please put your cream,
Constantly flowing to the world,
Cultivate comfortable flowers,
Form a happy fruit!
Red candle!
You shed a tear and the ash was distracted.
Depression, tears for your fruit,
Create light for your career.
Red candle!
Mo Wen harvests, but requires cultivation.
Literary historical materials
"Red Candle" is the first poem written by Wen Yiduo, a famous collection of poems in modern China. The poem "Red Candle" is a poem with the same name as the collection of poems, and it is the preface of the collection of poems "Red Candle".
It has a wide range of themes and rich contents, or expresses the poet's patriotic feelings, or criticizes the darkness under feudal rule, or reflects the suffering of working people, or depicts the beauty of nature. Clever conception, novel imagination and vivid language image. Red candle is also another name for flamingos.
In the poem "Red Candle", the red candle is a poet and the poet is a red candle. "Red candle! Mo Wen harvested, but asked hard. " It is not only the refinement of the spirit of red candle, but also the poet's encouragement to himself: sacrifice and selfless dedication. Every paragraph of the poem begins with the call of "red candle", forming a rich lyrical atmosphere, followed by self-questioning, since the enlightenment, self-answering and self-encouragement, which shows persistent pursuit step by step and has strong appeal.
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Appreciation of red candle
This poem "Red Candle" is the preface of Wen Yiduo's poetry collection "Red Candle", and this poetry collection published in September 1923 is the first poetry collection published by the poet, which shows that this poem is the foundation stone of Wen Yiduo's poetry career. The interpretation of Red Candle provides an important starting point for us to analyze the poet's inner world and psychological structure. It should be noted that Wen Yiduo embarked on a creative path of modern poets from the red candle era.
Compared with some other May 4th poets, Wen Yiduo obviously has deeper feelings for China's traditional poetics. While accepting the nutrition of western poetics, he never gave up learning and imitating China's classical poetry. The works of Li Shangyin, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, are one of China's classical poems that Wen Yiduo is most interested in. His famous phrase "Candle tears every night" is of course familiar to him. In this way, "red candle" is the ideal of China literati.
When he finished the title of his first book of poetry, "Red Candle" appeared clearly for the first time, which is the origin of the title of poetry and the preface of "Red Candle". From this, we can get a glimpse of the psychological characteristics of the poet Wen Yiduo in the first stage of his creation: he is not simply self-expression and self-portrayal (although he appreciates the goddess of self-expression). The western romantic poetics of self-expression and self-description did not occupy a dominant position in his spiritual world; The poet's self-expression is consciously attached to a certain "mode", and his understanding of "mode" and his understanding of himself are carried out at the same time. These creative psychology are obviously related to the art of China's classical poetry. Therefore, the surface of the consciousness structure of Red Candle is permeated with the fragrance of traditional poetics.
But Red Candle is obviously not a modern copy of Untitled by Li Shangyin. This poem is full of realistic projection and the voice of the times. The poet's "self" belonging to the May 4th Movement and the individual and the "self" belonging to the traditional culture and national psychology are so intricately intertwined that they complement each other, explain each other and express their opinions, but more are contradictions and conflicts, thus giving birth to a strange "red candle".
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