Chutchev [Russia]
A quiet night is no longer midsummer.
The stars in the sky are as red as fire,
Under the faint starlight,
In a quiet sleep, in maturity ...
Ah, golden wheat waves
The silent night was silent,
Only silver moonlight.
Flashing on the waves of dreams ...
(Translated by Cha Liang Zheng, selected from the Dictionary of Appreciation of World Famous Poems)
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Silent Night is a landscape poem.
Landscape poetry must first have pictures in it. As an excellent painter, Chutchev sketched an idyllic scene in early autumn with simple brushwork.
To write a landscape, we need to grasp the characteristics, emphasize and omit, so that the landscape will stand out.
The description of starlight in the first four sentences is very layered. First, shoot the stars with a long lens at the night sky, and then move the lens between fields to supplement the starlight effect from the side.
Then, the poet took a close-up shot of the details of the scenery-golden wheat waves. Starting from the sky and returning to the sky-starlight and moonlight reflect each other, creating the artistic conception of "quiet night".
Only when the poet pours his feelings into the scenery described, can landscape poems affect people. In the poet's eyes, "the stars are as red as fire" is obviously in love. The phrase "moonlight/flashing on the waves like a dream" is also the poet's emotional fluctuation. The poet wrote "Silent Night", in which there was movement and vitality. What the poet wants to eulogize is not a static landscape painting, but the great power of nature and the creative spirit of people.
Landscape poetry should not only infect readers with beauty, but also enlighten readers, which requires rich ideological connotation. Silent Night has done just that, so it has always been loved by readers.
(Chen Shaowei)