Floating Florida seaweed sometimes blooms in summer.
On a spring night, a pelican flew to Holland.
(North Island translation)
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The title of this poem is "Going to Sea", which is based on the instantaneous impression of sailors when they go to sea and written in three prose languages. This short poem also clearly embodies the characteristics of Marthinsen's poems: quick association, rich imagination, excitable feelings and lovely sense of humor.
For seafarers, the ocean is their home, the source of their means of subsistence and livelihood, and also their workplace. For them, the sea means everything. And going to sea is the beginning of all this, all survival, all life, all tomorrow, all future, all hope, everything is tied to this starting point. No matter whether the future journey is sunny or stormy, since you have chosen the life of a sailor, you must resolutely choose to face it. This is the sailor's spirit, and it all started from the starting line of going to sea. The sea is unpredictable, and the future is unpredictable. Instead of falling into sadness and resentment, it is better to take the initiative to meet challenges and hopes. It may be stormy ahead, but as long as you face it with confidence, your heart is full of hope, and in the face of firm and optimistic beliefs, all difficulties and obstacles are like a breeze.
The poet was a sailor for six years. His sailor experience and poet status give us reason to believe that he can fully understand the vision and dreams, hopes and future of tomorrow that ordinary sailors can understand. We also have reason to believe that when the poet wrote this poem, he wrote it with all his own experiences and life experiences. The two identities of poet and sailor have been completely integrated into him, and they are inseparable at all. When writing, the poet's thoughts change rapidly, which can even be said to be "thinking for a thousand years" and "seeing Wan Li". A seemingly simple poem also contains rich contents. The author makes full use of association and imagination and fully extends the tentacles of thinking, but the ordinary ocean scene described in the second poem connects the two fields of time and space. "Summer" is time, "Florida" is space, and the network of time and space is connected at "seaweed", thus creating a three-dimensional sense of strewn at random. The qualifiers "drift" and "sometimes" also have the finishing touch: "drift" means that algae are in a state of being in the ocean. If there is no wind and waves at sea, seaweed will certainly drift like duckweed; And "sometimes" is to divide continuous time into different time periods. The use of these two determiners at the same time, both ebb and flow, sometimes intermittently, cuts off the overall continuity of space and time, creates a split and uncertain state in a powerful and closed three-dimensional space-time body, and further enhances the sense of fluidity of poetry. Moreover, is Florida seaweed, which sometimes blooms in summer, floating and homeless like rootless duckweed, a symbol or hint of seafarers' living conditions?
The "Pelican" mentioned in "A Pelican Flying to Holland on a Spring Night" is good at swimming and fishing, and likes to live in groups. Isn't this habit similar to that of sailors? On the spring night before dawn, the pelican was a lonely goose, a lonely outcast and an elf in the dark. On a spring night, this elf yearns for the future and tomorrow, and flies to Holland, a beautiful country full of windmills and tulips.
Generally speaking, the first line of the poem describes the feelings of seafarers before going to sea, or a psychological expectation and state; The second and third lines talk about the seascape after going out to sea. "Seaweed" or "Pelican" are all seascapes that sailors often encounter when they go out to sea, and they are real scenes. It can be said that the first line is imaginary, the second and third lines are real, and the whole poem combines reality.
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