In the blue summer evening, I will walk in the countryside,
Facing the itchy wheatgrass, stepping on the thin grass,
As if in a dream, Let my head bathe in the evening breeze,
while the soles of my feet feel cool and fresh.
I think nothing and say nothing,
An infinite love guides me in my heart,
The more I Walking farther and farther, like a wandering gypsy
Walking through nature, as happy as carrying a female companion.
(Fei Bai)
Appreciation
Rimbaud was a young pioneer among the three major poets of early French Symbolism. From the age of fifteen to nineteen, he paved the way for symbolism as a pioneer, and in later generations he became a hero worshiped by Surrealism and other modern poetic schools. For example, the "Encyclopedia Britannica" said: "There is almost no poet who has become the object of such enthusiastic research, and no poet has had a greater impact on modern poetry than him."
Rimbaud Born in northwest France. The family environment in which his father abandoned the family and his mother had a bad temper, and the small town life with strong philistine atmosphere, vulgarity and conservativeness, suffocated Rimbaud's childhood. He longed for freedom and was eager to launch a "rebellion" against family, etiquette and religion. The result was: On the one hand, he wrote poems about yearning for freedom when he was fifteen years old, showing his extraordinary poetic talent; , also since the age of fifteen, this restless boy has been running away from home continuously, running to Paris and Belgium, and was once detained for riding without a ticket. When the Paris Commune revolted, Rimbaud wrote poems enthusiastically hailing the founding of the Commune. He showed fierce resistance to traditional concepts and traditional literature.
Rimbaud has his unique poetics. He believed that poets should be "insighters" who should transcend the individual and penetrate into the soul of the universe. To this end, he used "synesthesia" ("sensory dislocation") and "alchemy of words" in his poems to delve into the realm of dreams and hallucinations and summon mysterious realms from the subconscious. These characteristics are particularly evident in his later works.
"Sensation" is an early poem written by Rimbaud when he was fifteen years old. At that time, he was still under the influence of the Romantics and Parnassians, and had not yet formally formed the Symbolist style of poetry. What interests us about this poem is that it reflects the young poet's particularly keen and rich feelings and his strong desire to travel far away.
When you read this poem, you seem to have transformed into the young protagonist in the poem, walking in the fields in the late summer. Your senses have become unprecedentedly keen. Not only your five senses are feeling nature, but your whole body from the top of your head to the soles of your feet is feeling the coolness and freshness of nature. The young poet felt "the itching of the wheat awns" on his arms and the "thin grass and tender grass" on his soles. This feeling is transmitted to you delicately and truly.
The first stanza of the poem describes the feeling of the body, but in the second stanza, the feeling has penetrated into the heart, turning into a sense of closeness to nature and a desire to penetrate into the mysterious kingdom of nature* **. This *** is similar to the feeling of the mind drifting with music.
Isn't this where the young poet ran away from home again and again, and after a few years simply cut off the cable and turned into a drunken boat to drift around the world?
(Fei Bai)