The poet's pen is the human world
——Commenting on He Yufei's poetry collection "Mother of Stars"
Wen 丨 Liu Juan
For poets, being selected for the Youth Poetry Association means entering the "national team" of poetry, and the publication of this poetry collection can also be regarded as an important harvest in the Hunan poetry circle in 2021.
"Mother of Stars" by He Yufei
Reading "The Mother of Stars", I found that He Yufei's poetry has a significant feature in form, its sections are relatively free, she rarely writes poems that are evenly proportioned and divided, and this kind of very exquisite chapter form is relatively rare. In addition, in some of the works that are more colloquial, He Yufei has no punctuation at the end of the line, and only occasionally uses some commas and dun signs.
From the perspective of wording, the words "everywhere", "everyone", and "every time" can be said to be one of He Yufei's writing inertia, and the poet quietly transitions and sublimates a single, unique scene or what happens in an instant to the perspective of the whole and the big one, and finally reaches a sacred height, which is a switching method used in her poetry, that is, from single to whole.
From the perspective of the ideological content of poetry, He Yufei's poems are very different from the ordinary folk small fresh, cute, and clever female poetry, which is not only filled with intellectual brilliance, but also has a humanistic care. She strives to achieve a certain aesthetic balance between objectivity and subjectivity, contradiction and paradox, and embodies a just right bass in the perception of expression. She does not only write about personal feelings, but extends her perspective to others, in order to express the intellectual lyricism of her poetry and the care of materiality and lyricism in the subjective and objective. In general, He Yufei's writing is based on feelings, with the presence of the body and the participation of life, and her poems are not to express, but to appeal to listening or watching. Her expression has an improvised feeling, capturing her first impression and first feeling of life, not making it mysterious, or turning a few corners to express her feelings about seeing something for the first time, thus showing a non-expressive listening, viewing poetic lyrical style.
The poem "Mother of Stars", as the title of the book, clearly shows that the poet writes poetry based on personal feelings and in the presence of the body and the participation of life. Her poems are not meant to be expressed, but more to listen or watch. Commenting on the poem, Kusanagi once said: "This poem is such an emotion that rises from the everyday to the sublime, very simple and natural. It is a sincere voice, although it expresses itself, but it is not an expression of will above language. ”
In the poem "Mother of stars", the sincere voice comes from a broad motherly love and pure innocence. The process of contact between the child and the world is the process of the child's understanding of the world and things, that is, the process of slowly moving towards the world. Will children be alienated by the world after they go to the world? This is a common concern, because it means the loss of beauty, and it is also the meaning of the poet's focus on the innocence of the child. The breadth of maternal love in the poem is presented through daily, sensual details, forming a personalized form of language, so the poem is actually an answer to the literary motif of maternal love in a personalized language form. In the poem, the child cares about the lonely star hanging on the bridge and asks its mother instead? When a four-year-old's heart is hurt, it is the time to need a mother, and the child does not see the mother of the stars. So in order not to let his child be hurt, the poet divinely plays the mother of the stars, a cycle of love, the child loves the world innocently, and the mother selflessly guards the child's love. It can be seen that this is a story of guarding love with love, and this brushstroke full of love and care for the world is in the same vein in many of the poet's poems.
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Mother of Stars
Author: He Yufei
On the banks of the Liuyang River, I took a walk with my four-year-old child
He plays a wind doll
Run ahead of me
Watch him wave his little arm in the distance calling out to me
I caught up quickly, and he pointed into the distance
"There's a star over there that hurts.
What about its mom? ”
In the direction, I saw a star
Hanging alone on the bridge
Maybe everyone has a sacred moment in their life
Crowded in the crowd, I actually wanted to play
Mother of a star