Forget her.
Author: Wen Yiduo
Forget her, like a forgotten flower.
The morning glow is on the petals,
A wisp of flower fragrance wafts from the flower heart-
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
Like a dream in the spring breeze,
Like a bell in a dream,
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
Listen to how well crickets sing,
See how tall the grass grows in the grave;
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
She has forgotten about you,
She doesn't remember anything;
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
That friend of Nianhua's is really nice.
He will teach you to grow old tomorrow;
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
If anyone wants to ask,
Just say there is no such person;
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
Like a dream in the spring breeze,
Like a bell in a dream,
Forget her like a forgotten flower!
2. Mast boat
The fog wetted my wings.
But the wind won't make me hesitate any more.
Coast, dear coast
I just said goodbye to you yesterday.
You came again today.
Tomorrow we will be at
Meet at another latitude
It's a storm, it's a light.
Connect us together.
This is a storm, another lamp.
Let's divide things up again.
Not afraid of the ends of the earth
Is it morning or evening?
You are on my voyage.
I'm in your sight.
Appreciation of poetry and prose:
1, "She" is Wen's eldest daughter, who was only four years old. It is said that he was quite clever. At that time, he knew a lot of words, but he was always weak and thin. Wen Yiduo loves her very much and takes time to play with her every day when she comes back from class. Children also know the world very well. As soon as Wen Yiduo took the hat, he knew he was going out and cried. 1926 During the summer vacation, Wen Yiduo was bullied by Liu Baizhao, president of Beijing Institute of Art, angrily resigned and went back to the south, taking Li Ying, who was ill, all the way. When I returned to my hometown to learn water, my child's condition worsened. However, in order to survive, Wen Yiduo had to leave home to apply for a job. On the recommendation of Pan Guangdan, he was appointed president of Wusong Branch of National Chengchi University. During this period, the sick Li Ying often shouted "Dad, Dad ……". After hearing the news of a flower, she couldn't find time to go home, so she had to send a photo to go home. Li Ying cried while looking at the photo. This winter, Mars died unfortunately, and he never saw his father again until his death. When Wen Yiduo rushed back to his hometown, all he saw was a piece of grave grass. Later, he wrote this song "Forget Her" to express his grief.
In the secular sense, it seems that the expression of mourning for relatives and friends should be an oath to "always remember …". This language is full of passion, but when you think about it, it is a bit vague and empty, and it can't stand deep scrutiny. For example, true grief and remembrance do not need to be fixed by any mandatory language. This is natural and cannot be easily blocked by some external forces. On the contrary, if mourning must be maintained by such a binding oath, its true emotional factors may be quite weak.
Poets are sincere, they don't need to rely on the aura of ethics to dress themselves up, and of course they don't need to force themselves to maintain what kind of emotional state. Mars is his beloved daughter, and he has devoted a lot of feelings to her. In this sense, the poet has reason to say surprisingly: "Forget her, like a forgotten flower", which seems to have many meanings. First of all, "forget her" is a painful word, because the poet has deep feelings for her and is deeply saddened by her death. This sadness, this regret and this attachment are deeply felt. This is the same as Lu Xun's famous work "In Memory of Forgetting". However, even at the moment of making up his mind, the poet's psychology is still complicated: in the life world we have experienced and will experience, there are countless "flowers", and "a flower" is nothing, which is self-forgiveness; However, "flowers" are still "flowers" after all. It is charming, beautiful and moving, and no one can deny it.
It is precisely because of this psychological contradiction that in the next series of "forgetting" efforts, the poet always tries to be detached and affectionate.
The first or second verse of this poem seems to be trying to imagine the contingency and transience of "she". I didn't make much waves in my emotional world. The morning glow on the petals and the fragrance of the flower heart are fleeting. The dream in the spring wind, the clock in the dream, has come and gone without a trace, and you can't invite it or keep it. Life is made up of countless accidents, so isn't it just like "she" who only lived for four years? Come and go in a hurry, there is nothing in this world, but the morning glow on the petals and the fragrance of the flower heart, including the spring dream and the bell in the dream, still give people a good impression and are not so easy to erase.
Next, the poet used three stanzas to try to "forget her" in different senses.
The first meaning is to emphasize that "she" no longer exists, really disappeared from the world, and merged with nature in a very short time. "Listen to how well the crickets sing/see how tall the grass grows in the grave." It can be seen that nature is running in full accordance with its established procedures, as if this human tragedy never happened. Mars has gone and gone a long way, so it seems unnecessary for the living to fall into that kind of self-entangled sadness for a long time. But there is another layer of contradiction here unconsciously, that is, the peace and vitality of nature, far from the pain of the poet hurting his daughter, and he is naturally indifferent to human feelings. Is this sad, too? Therefore, the poet's unforgettable pain is still manifested. In particular, we must understand the fact that Wen Yiduo, who is far away from Shanghai, was the first to come to his daughter's grave when he received the notice of returning home. Perhaps this scene is the impression he left at that moment. Obviously, in that era, a poet could not have his own sense of regret.
The second meaning is that the poet imagines the psychology of his dead daughter, "She has forgotten you,/She doesn't remember anything". Wen Yiduo imagined her daughter leaving this world, and now she is completely used to life in the "other world". Everything in the past life is quite strange and distant to her. Since the dead are indifferent to the living, there is no need for the living to be so stubborn.
The third layer means that the poet imagines that time flies, the years are ruthless, all youth will pass away, and everyone will face death one day. My daughter's life is short, but yours and mine won't last long! On the road of life guarded by death, this is only the difference between 50 steps and 100 steps. Everyone is each other! So, what is the end of a life? From the perspective of human fatalism tragedy, Wen Yiduo seems to have a certain alleviating effect on his sadness. However, the death of his daughter made him think he was "old", which was a new bitterness.
In the last two verses, the poet reminds himself again and again to forget her and even deny that she ever existed! This is obviously more painful, and the poem goes back to the second verse. The decisiveness of "forgetting her" and the lingering of "unforgettable" are repeated together. This is like the theme of the whole poem "forget her, like a forgotten flower", which is repeated thirteen times in the whole poem, thus forming the multi-layered meaning of the whole poem. The superficial meaning of "unforgettable" and the melody form of "unforgettable" create a meaningful relationship between them.
2. The so-called "bass zone" in Shu Ting's poems refers to those works that use hazy and symbolic images to express the poet's complex mentality and delicate emotions. Such as self-portrait, past 23, fairy tale poet, mast boat, Beidaihe shore and so on. This part of the works has rich aesthetic value because of its rich connotation and tortuous expression, which needs people to understand and appreciate through multi-level analysis and perspective. Therefore, it is often considered as an unknown "flower in the fog".
Mast Boat is a masterpiece in which the poet uses vague poems, symbols and images to express people's subjective feelings, thus developing human nature. The whole poem shows the poet's dual mentality and complex emotions. On the one hand, it is the "lamp" of ideal pursuit, on the other hand, it is the "shore" of love yearning. In the process of persistent pursuit of ideals, we sometimes meet with the other side, and sometimes we leave the other side, which is harmonious and contradictory. At the same time, in the process of pursuing ideals, poets sometimes feel the difficulty and heaviness of progress, and sometimes they feel a sense of urgency of the times without letting themselves stop. "The fog has wet my wings/but the wind won't make me hesitate." The emotion and mentality expressed in poetry are not only the poet's own and individual things, but also the things that young people in that particular era generally feel and cannot describe. The poet expressed it perfectly with her delicate heart and symbolic skills, making it a well-known masterpiece.
An important artistic feature of this poem is symbolism. In misty poetry, symbols mostly replace people's subjective feelings and social attitudes with concrete things and images that people can directly feel. In short, it is to express abstraction with concreteness. The poem entitled "Mast Ship" is a symbol. The purpose of the whole poem is not to describe an objective schooner, but to express the poet himself and his dual mentality and complex emotions through the concrete image of schooner. In other words, the poet thinks I'm like a schooner. The "double mast" in a brig has some profound meaning. The coexistence of two masts means that love and career in the poet's heart coexist but are different. In addition, "shore", "wind", "storm" and "lamp" in the poem all have obvious symbolic significance. "Shore" symbolizes the love destination of women, "wind" means that the urgency of the times gives the poet strength, "storm" implies the unusual times experienced by the poet and his contemporaries, and "lamp" carries bright faith.
The use of images is another important artistic feature of this poem. The so-called image is to express the poet's subjective mentality through external scenery. It is different from the "artistic conception" in traditional poetry. Artistic conception is generally touching the scene and expressing emotions through the scene, so as to achieve the artistic purpose of expressing emotions through the scene. In misty poetry, poets mostly take subjective feelings and people's various mentalities as the objects of expression, and imagine and construct some concrete pictures and scenery from subjective feelings, so as to visualize abstract emotions and achieve the effect of artistic expression. What the poet wants to express in "Double Mast Ship" is a state of mind, an emotion and an emotional process. On the other hand, it is the concrete images such as "ship", "shore", "storm" and "lamp" that fall on the language, and these concrete images are combined to form a complete picture of the dynamic process. Under the picture, the author's heart and true feelings are implied, beating. The poetic image is fresh and natural, which enables the poet to express his strong feelings freely.
In addition, the language of this poem is natural and fluent, and the feelings contained in the poem are dignified and delicate, with deep personal sighs and open feelings of the times. The last four poems: "Don't be afraid of the ends of the earth/seize the day/you are on my voyage/I am in your sight" are widely circulated and quoted as aphorisms.