【Original】 Poetry Review Wan Ziyan's poem "What is the West Lake Handsome" Comments on the horse in the people - Chen Xuanyan

Wan Ziyan's poem "What is the West Lake Handsome" commented

What a handsome West Lake

Text/Wan Ziyan

West Lake Ah West Lake!

The pearl scattered by the Qiantang River.

I carry with a vague yearning,

I want to linger with you.

The West Lake swayed with green splashes,

Quietly like talking to me...

West lake! You are the lover of my dreams,

I watch the moon with you in mid-autumn.

We are with us like gods,

Meet the scent of lotus on the lake.

It is the shyness of the clouds chasing the moon,

It is a costume for lake light and shadow.

What is the handsome nature of Paradise West Lake?

Think about the image of a hero!

There is also the backbone of silent dedication.

More than 40 years of reform and opening up,

I work with you to change the world.

Dreams give hope to love:

The sea is rotten and the earth is desolate.

I open the color scroll of history,

Surprise findings:

You are a myth from ancient times,

I am a lotus flower that I just planted today.

How handsome you are, how beautiful I am!

Scoop up the gentle moonlight!

No need to chop wood, feed horses, or travel the world.

Only drunk in the land of fish and rice in Jiangnan,

Look at what that West Lake handsome has become!

[Note: Created on October 4, 2017, selected in November 2018 hangzhou published by Hangzhou Publishing House " ISBN: 978-7-5565-0942-3]

Chen Xuanyan's brief comment: A female poet full of fantasies imagined "Xizi" as a handsome man, and I have to say that it is quite innovative. This poem has a taste of feminism. If it were not for Su Shi, Bai Juyi and others who shaped the West Lake into the image of a woman, if it were not for the patriarchalization of poetry "discourse", it would not have been possible for thousands of years that the West Lake would have been flooded by the image of a woman. A beautiful beauty and a sassy man can be equated in connotation, and the poet captures this with her unique feeling specificity and boldly gives West Lake another style and image. For this alone, I have to praise the poet! Although the "heroic image" and "silent dedication of the backbone" of West Lake seem to be incompatible with its femininity, everyone can have a self-definition in their hearts. It should be said that the poem is also dignified and atmospheric at the same time as the soft words, which elevates the poet's feelings for the West Lake from a yearning to a longing. This longing is not kissing me and my little love, it is an expression of the poet's infinite desire for beauty. The West Lake may just be a borrowing of this beauty, because this beauty has spread to the reform of the country and the intoxication of the Fish Town in Jiangnan. The beauty of "he" is a synthesis of history, humanities and regions, and also contains local symbols of personal temperament (mainly military temperament), emotions and even the ultimate dream of poetry, this multi-dimensional and multi-dimensional "complicating" atmosphere, making the poem read both graceful and atmospheric; both intellectual and sensual; both small and big love. It seems to be full of contradictions, but it can be organically integrated, and finally uses Haizi's verses to reflect the poet's satisfaction. Yeah, what a handsome one! "Drunk" is also a matter of course.

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