"I am fortunate to have gained, I lost my life" This is a sentence written by Xu Zhimo in a letter to Liang Qichao, and many people later believe that it is his expression of his love for Lin Huiyin to his mentor. These 8 words sound a little sad, but they also write the side that Xu Zhimo dares to love.
When Xu Zhimo first met Lin Huiyin, she was only 16 years old, and her independent personality and extraordinary talent attracted the amorous him. After that, everyone knows that Xu Zhimo wrote a lot of love poems to Lin Huiyin. Lin Huiyin was moved, but in the end reason overcame everything, and Zhang Youyi's existence made her dare not love it. What I want to share with you in this issue is a group of poems of the two people, when Xu Zhimo wrote a meat and hemp love poem to 18-year-old Lin Huiyin, the poem is called "Love Death", the poem is very long, and some of them are like this:
The smile on your cheek must be a pity brought by heaven that the world is too vulgar to provide them with the opportunity to live permanently, and your beauty is your destiny!
Like Xu Zhimo's other love poems, this poem is written romantically and beautifully. In the poem, Xu Zhimo praised Lin Huiyin's smile and beauty with extremely beautiful sentences, and at that time, Lin Huiyin had decided not to entangle with the other party, so he did not reply to the poem. Until 9 years later, that is, before Xu Zhimo's death in 1931, Lin Huiyin remembered this poem when he was recuperating from illness, and also remembered the past time, so he replied to a more absolute poem called "Laughter". This poem can be regarded as a first-class modern poem, both in terms of artistic conception and in terms of words, and its literary agility is impressive, and it is not at all inferior to Xu Zhimo's original poem. Let's read it together:
It is worth noting that at that time, Lin Huiyin and Xu Zhimo both had their own destinations, Lin Huiyin married Liang Sicheng, and Xu Zhimo had Lu Xiaoman by his side. Therefore, in this poem, Lin Huiyin did not mention the feelings of that year, it described the smile of a young girl.
The whole poem can be divided into two sections, each of which is the same structure, full of the architectural beauty unique to Lin Huiyin's poem. The first verse uses the reflection of whirlpools, dewdrops, water, and the light song of the wind to visualize the girl's laughter, full of imagination, and extremely flexible and ethereal in the use of words. The second verse compares the smile of a girl with a flower scene, the traces of clouds, and the soft waves of the waves, which is sweeter than the first verse.
Reading through this poem, the overall feeling is a "beautiful" word, in order to write the girl's laughter, the poet made enough efforts. First of all, the strict structural symmetry makes the poem flexible but not scattered, the artistic conception is unified, and it is all in one go; secondly, the most important thing in modern poetry is to have imagination, Lin Huiyin's poem perfectly reflects this; again, a variety of rhetorical methods, the use of multiple sentence patterns make this poem full of vitality, the poet will smile perfectly with nature, water, wind, dewdrops, clouds, waves, flowers and other beautiful images in nature, are introduced by the poet one by one, but they are not at all blunt, which is rare.
After the advent of this poem, famous artists also gave it unanimous praise and became one of Lin Huiyin's masterpieces. She used "Laughter" to respond to Xu Zhimo's "Love Death" 9 years ago, in fact, it is also a kind of memory of the feelings of the two, when love has become a thing of the past, they did not forget each other, but repaid each other with a sincere smile. Unfortunately, not long after the poem was written, Xu Zhimo died tragically. "I am fortunate to have it, I lost my life" Many people think that Xu Zhimo's words are too sad, but acquaintance is not a kind of fate. Do you like Lin Huiyin's poem? Discussion is welcome.