Every verse of this poem rhymes, and it reads with a distinct rhythm and rhymes sonorously; The appearance is square and tidy, forming the beauty of balance and symmetry; Pay attention to the color sense of language and form a hint picture with different beauty and ugliness.
The whole poem is divided into five sections and can be divided into three parts.
The first part (the first section) expresses the poet's indignation at the "stagnant pool" of corruption in old China.
The first sentence of the poem "This is a stagnant pool" has profound implications: it symbolizes the corrupt and dark semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China at that time, just like "a stagnant pool".
In this poem, the word "despair" expresses the poet's deep disappointment. In the second sentence of the poem, "the breeze can't blow a bit", and "breeze" is the contrast of "stagnant water", which can be used as a metaphor for all fresh thoughts and forces. However, these new things can't attract the slightest reaction of "stagnant water". There are no waves where the breeze blows, indicating that the stagnant water has been silent to the extreme.
This sentence is a further description of the third and fourth sentences in the poem "Dead Water", which describes the poet's extreme hatred after facing the disappointment of "Dead Water".
Since the reality is so dark and desperate, it is better to let it rot and stink completely. Maybe it's a terminal illness, and if it's hopeless, it will rot faster and more thoroughly Only when the old dies completely will the new become stronger. These two poems also show that the poet's anger is full of ardent hope for good things.
In the second part (the second, third and fourth sections), the poet described "stagnant water" in detail, vividly exposed the decadent social situation in old China, and expressed his feelings of hatred, anger and ridicule towards old China.
In these poems, the poet gradually and profoundly wrote the further changes of scrap iron and stagnant water after leftovers with rich imagination, vivid metaphors, vivid color descriptions and ironic brushstrokes. Scrap copper and iron thrown into stagnant water will produce green rust and red rust, with copper rust green as "emerald" and rust red as "peach blossom".
Moreover, greasy "leftovers" are scattered on the water, and the sunshine is like a flashing "Luo Qi"; Some places are moldy and hairy, just like "clouds"; After fermentation, the stagnant water will turn into smelly water with the color of "green wine", which is covered with "pearl-like foam".
It is in this stagnant water that swarms of flower mosquitoes are flying around, and sometimes, noisy frogs are added. This disgusting stagnant water, dirty and smelly, is untenable! Here, the poet described the dark reality of old China in detail by further describing stagnant water. In this section.
Poets use colorful "Emerald", "Peach Blossom", "Rocky", "Xia Yun" and "Pearl" to describe dirty stagnant water, just like putting a delicate and elegant coat on the devil. This is a contrast between false beauty and ugliness. The poet wrote this way to make the ugly class uglier.
Write ugliness with beauty, and ugliness is even uglier. In this unique way, the poet shows the rancid nature of stagnant water more vividly, and at the same time makes his poetry have a strong irony.
The third part (the last section) expresses the poet's strong desire to curse reality and urgently hope to change it.
In the first two sentences of this part, the poet completely denies the dark China society in a very straightforward tone. "This is a pool of desperate stagnant water, which is definitely not the beauty." . After the complete denial, the sentence "Let Ugly take back the land and see what world he created" wrote the poet's hope in despair.
The world cultivated by ugliness can only be uglier, but if it is ugly to the extreme, it is possible to reverse Gan Kun. Therefore, these last two sentences not only contain the poet's despair of old China, but also his expectation and yearning for new China, and his strong desire to change reality. Although for poets, this expectation was very vague at that time.
The whole poem strongly lashes and curses the dark and stale old China under the rule of warlords, which shows the poet's deep patriotic enthusiasm.
"Dead Water" is also a masterpiece of metrical new poetry, and its style is extremely rigorous. From the appearance, there are nine words in each sentence and four sentences in each section, which are arranged very neatly. From the internal rhythm, each sentence is composed of four sentences. Due to the high harmony of internal rhythm, coupled with the strict double-line rhyme and the acoustic effect of one rhyme per verse, the rhythm of the whole poem is very beautiful.
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Wen Yiduo was the first poet to advocate and practice new metrical poems, and Dead Water was also Mr. Wen Yiduo's "first experiment with the most satisfactory syllables", which was a typical experiment of Mr. Wen's "three beauties" new metrical style, and made a serious and fruitful exploration for the establishment and formation of new metrical style.
After returning home, the motherland presented him with an extremely disappointing scene-warlords fighting and imperialism running rampant, so that the poet's feelings changed from disappointment and pain to extreme anger. The poem "Dead Water" was written under such circumstances.
Shen Congwen's evaluation of Wen Yiduo said that its purity in words and organization made the Collection of Grass Mang get rid of the atmosphere dominated by words, and in addition, it established a complete new poetry style for China, which was beyond the reach of any poet in China.
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