I once asked myself this question: Is it worthwhile to spend tens of dollars on a book of poetry and then have little time to read it? I didn't think it was worth it until today. Reading a few poems can make me express so many feelings and words, which is obviously a profitable "business".
Actually, I came into contact with modern poetry very late. I have been addicted to Tang poetry and Song poetry until I almost forgot to eat and sleep. I met Wang Guozhen by chance, followed by Xi Murong and Gu Cheng. Wang Guozhen's poems tend to be rational, with unpretentious words, but very infectious; Xi Murong's poems pay attention to love, and show the tenderness and delicacy peculiar to women incisively and vividly, which is touching. Gu Cheng, on the other hand, told us about his sufferings in a unique way, showed his loneliness, made us admire his noble mind, and at the same time gave us a baptism.
I have interpreted the poem "The Ridge of the Field" once before, and I feel not very satisfied. So read it again.
"The road is so narrow? Just a ridge.
Crowded and quiet alfalfa is forbidden to walk side by side.
If you come with me, you will count my footprints.
If I go with you, I can only look at your back. "
This poem is not difficult to understand. However, in the specific interpretation, people will be confused and unable to agree. Perhaps this is the charm of misty poetry: you can only hesitate between knowing and not knowing, and there will always be the feeling of looking at flowers in the fog and looking at the moon in the water.
Walking side by side in the field, two people inadvertently came to a ridge. The ridge of the field is covered with alfalfa, which makes the originally narrow road more inconvenient for peers. Therefore, on the question of who came first, the author has associations. In fact, in life, it doesn't matter who comes first. In short, two people can't cross at the same time. But in the eyes of imaginative and sensitive poets, this order is indeed a proposition, a proposition that has to be discussed. As a result of the discussion, the author told us: "If you come with me, you will count my footprints;" If I go with you, I can only look at your back. "From this perspective, it is about dependence on cognition.
Footprints and backs are symbols of strength. In this era, the only people who can leave footprints are successful people who work hard. They describe their long struggle with their own experiences. Only respected predecessors and sages can cast their shadows, and they interpret noble character with prestige. However, if we admire them blindly and learn from them, we will easily fall into the situation of "counting footprints" and "looking at the back", thus losing the ability of independent analysis and research, and there is the possibility of "learning from the East". Throughout the ages, there are countless examples like this: from the son of Bole, who followed the map, finally found a toad joke, to the socialist construction in Eastern Europe, which copied the experience of the Soviet Union, and finally ended in the tragedy of changing hands and changing countries, all of which revealed no subjective analysis and understanding and passively created the sadness of failure. The series of authors here has evolved into "ancients" and "newcomers", into "saints" and "civilians", into "stars" and "masses" ... If a person loses the ability to think independently, his life is destined to become a drawing board for others, which is a permanent tragedy in history.
The author's worries are realistic. In the 2008 financial crisis, how many investors blindly believed the advice of so-called experts and ended up in bankruptcy liabilities; In the rising upsurge of English learning, how many students have achieved immediate and twice the result with half the effort under the guidance of "memory masters"? It is the greatest misfortune of this era that lessons are staged one after another and people pay insufficient attention to them. Mistakes are not made by celebrities, but by our own stupidity and blind obedience.
I hope that in the future, we can also leave our own footprints while counting others' footprints; While looking at other people's backs, don't forget to look back at your own.