An introduction to Xu Zhimo's poem-"A Night in the Emerald Green."

Poets or artists always try to hide their emotions and thoughts as much as possible, not letting them stand up and speak "directly", but letting them hide in the various images and layers of contradictions created by the poet. It is expressed "indirectly" in a roundabout way. In the poem "A Night in Emerald Green", readers will see how the poet "indirectly" rather than "directly" expresses the complex and ever-changing emotional thoughts of the lyrical protagonist, a weak woman. < /p>

The light of mutual effect in this encounter!

Obviously, these three lines of poems emphasize not "forgetting" but "remembering". I can't forget a good time that I met by chance, and I hope that the other person will also remember this fate; the tone is withdrawn. In order to advance, it seems light but heavy. On the surface, it shows open-mindedness, but in fact, it implies nostalgia. This can be described as a "beating around the bush" way of expression. This is an artistic rather than scientific, indirect rather than direct expression. Poets or artists always try to hide their emotions and thoughts as much as possible, and do not let them stand up and speak "directly". Instead, they let them hide in the various images and settings created by the poet, and "indirectly" in a roundabout way. "Show it. In the poem "A Night in Emerald Green", we will see how the poet "indirectly" rather than "directly" expresses the intricate and ever-changing emotional thoughts of the lyrical protagonist, a weak woman.

The poem begins by cutting into the psychological activities of the lyrical protagonist: "Are you really leaving tomorrow? Then me, then me,..." The lover's departure date should have been decided long ago, so for this book There is no doubt, but this woman does not want her lover to leave her, nor does she believe that her lover can really bear to leave her. In this way, the external established facts form a "dislocation" with the woman's inner wishes, resulting in a sudden psychological reaction to the unexpected arrival date. "Then I, then I,..." This is an unfinished sentence. It should mean "What should I do if you leave?" But if you say it like this, it lacks a kind of poetry and implication. It cannot Reveal the complex psychological activities of this weak woman. The use of repetition and ellipses here conveys the woman's mental state of muttering to herself and not knowing what to do for a while. "If you want to remember me, just remember me, / or else you will forget that I am in this world." These are "angry" words said because she can't keep her lover. The woman is still blaming her lover in her heart. She knows that her lover is It is impossible to forget her, but she said this, and the implication is naturally that she wants her lover to remember her. But no matter what, her lover's imminent departure cast a heavy shadow in her heart. The association with the image of "canned red" reflected her mental burden and psychological pressure. She was worried that she would face the real situation alone after her lover left. And feel anxious and scared. She immediately passed on the cause of her pain to her lover: "Oh my God! Why did you come here? Why did you come here..." Love makes people happy, but love can also make people distressed, especially when the person in love is not understood by society, not loved by relatives and friends. When friends support you, you will feel even more distressed. The woman blames her lover for causing her love troubles. Regarding the expression of love, from the beginning to this point, the poem cuts through the "antithesis" of love. It does not express love in a positive way, but reflects the sadness, anger, blame and other emotional reactions caused by the lover's impending separation in the woman's heart. The importance of her lover in her life and her deep love and attachment to her lover. With this layer of foreshadowing, the poem shifts from "antithesis" to "thesis", pointing out that this love is an unforgettable love: "I can't forget you. The day you come, / is like a dark future. Seeing the glory, / You are my husband, my love, my benefactor, / You taught me what life is, what love is, / You awakened me from coma, and repaid my innocence. / Without you, I would never know the world. Is it high, is the grass green? "Love shines with its unique brilliance because it blends into life, into people's natural emotions, into intelligence and spirituality. This kind of love is unforgettable. Being able to have this kind of love is something to be proud of and enviable. The woman's distress and self-pity were annihilated by the happiness and pride of love she possessed, and she was once again immersed in the fiery experience of love: "These days my soul is like wrought iron on fire bricks, Under the hammer of love, smash, smash, sparks/scattered everywhere..." Writing this, the poet did not let the excitement of love and the climax of emotion continue, but with a change of pen, he painted a very beautiful picture. , the intoxicating illusion of "death". Life and death are categories with strong contrasting meanings. Life means "movement", which means life; death means "quietness", which means the end of life. But the meaning of life and the meaning of death are not fixed. On certain value coordinates, a meaningless life is not as good as a meaningful death, and a life without love is not as good as dying for love. As the woman said, in love Death in the center is worse than five hundred reincarnations. Dying for love, this "death" is actually another level of "life". Love gains freedom and eternity through death. The poet allows the lyrical protagonist to switch from the happy experience of love to the longing for death. This seems a bit abrupt, but in fact it is not contradictory. It is the profound experience of love that leads to the realization of the beauty of love freedom and love happiness. Wish, and since this wish cannot be realized in the real world, it can only be realized through death.

However, if the poem ends with the weak woman dying for love and entering the underworld of heaven or hell, this cannot fully unfold the rich and complex inner emotions of the lyrical protagonist in terms of artistic expression, and the spiritual realm of the lyrical protagonist will not be fully developed. It cannot truly be sublimated. In fact, the poet sets up another layer of contradiction for the lyrical protagonist. This contradiction comes from the fact that there is no essential difference between the real world and the unreal world (heaven or hell). Maybe heaven is a happy world as people imagine, but what about hell? "Hell may not be more civilized than this world." In the real world, this weak woman is like "Crane Red" who "gets trampled on by others and turns into mud." She is not pitied but suffers the fate of being destroyed. Once she enters hell, she "cannot guarantee that she will not survive". If you encounter another storm, don’t let the rain hit you.” “That’s not asking for relief but throwing yourself into the mud.” This makes us lament the living situation of "living is difficult, and if it is too difficult, you will die without being free." This kind of conflicting pain can only be healed by love. This weak woman can give up the real world, heaven or hell, but she cannot live without love - the most true and beautiful love in the world. Some people place their spiritual strength and spiritual support for survival in an illusory world, such as heaven; or in an illusory idol, such as God. But this weak woman written by Xu Zhimo neither places her hope in heaven nor on God; if she also has heaven or God in her heart, then this heaven is a paradise of true and beautiful love, and the lover is God. . "——Your presence is my confidence", "Love, I have no life except in your heart", "Love, you will always be a star above my head" - Love, lover, is the basis of her life Everything; love has become her belief in life. Therefore, even if she dies unfortunately, she will not fly to heaven or hell, but will become a firefly, "flying darkly in this garden, next to the grass roots", flying from "dusk to midnight, midnight Fly until dawn", just because there is her lover in the sky - the unchanging star. "I hope you can shine more light for me, across the night, / across the sky, with a little more understanding of love..." The complex emotional thoughts of the lyrical protagonist, the psychological contradictions of love and resentment, are finally revealed in the persistence of love and the tension of love. Be soothed and unified in faith, and good wishes sprout out, shining with the romantic and touching brilliance of love. Xu Zhimo's "A Night in the Emerald Green" is written to imitate the tone of a weak woman. He uses delicate writing styles to describe attachment, sorrow, gratitude, self-pity, happiness, pain, helplessness, tenderness, love, and persistence. All kinds of emotions, tactful and profound, truly and touchingly convey the complex and changing emotional thoughts of a weak woman on the eve of parting from her lover. The complex thoughts of the lyrical protagonist are also a reflection of the poet's true state of mind at that time. When writing this poem, the poet was in a foreign country (Florence, Italy). The loneliness of living in a foreign place, the longing for his distant lover, the pain of love not being tolerated by society, etc., formed his depressed feelings. This depressed feeling is also the same as that of a foreign country. The combination of his consistent life pursuit and life beliefs constitutes the unique meaning of this poem. This poem is not like Xu Zhimo's many short lyrical poems, which show its charm with a high degree of artistic cohesion and artistic expression; it uses a delicate style of writing to narrate a complex emotional thought and a free-flowing psychology. The unfolding of the activities is described with many meticulous details, which may appear messy and fragmented in terms of artistic expression, but this is in line with the complex and changing thoughts of the lyrical protagonist.

In terms of language, this poem is written in a plain, almost muttered spoken language. Oral expression is not only cordial and true as it is now, but it is more suitable for expressing "solo words" than written language; when a person expresses his feelings and pours out his emotions alone, he uses oral expression (repetition, pause, omission, exclamation, etc.) It is more suitable to express changes in inner emotions and freely changing psychological activities. The oral expression is natural, vivid, appropriate, and flexible, which is the success of this poem.