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Ye Qiu, formerly known as Mo Shaoqiu, born in 1936, is a famous scholar and poetry critic, a professor at the College of Literature of Yangzhou University, and a graduate tutor. He has excellent insight into poetic texts and the discovery and exploration of important poets. He is the author of "Ye Qiu's Collected Works", "Ai Qing's Poetry Appreciation", "Drifting Wood", "Form and Meaning", "Selected Literary Criticism of Ye Qiu" and other works. He was selected as a "Yangzhou Cultural Celebrity" and has served as a judge for many literary awards such as the Purple Mountain Literature Award and the Wang Zengqi Literature Award.
Selected chapters of "Interpretation of Hundred New Poems in a Hundred Years"
Leaf bridge
The Wolf's Solo Walk
Ji String
I am a lone wolf in the wilderness.
Not a prophet, no half-word sigh.
And Heng has been extremely long with a few mournful voices
Shake the empty world of nothingness,
Make the heavens and the earth tremble as if they were malaria,
And blowing a cool breeze, a fluttering:
It's a kind of addiction.
【Interpretation】
Among modern Chinese poetry, Ji Xian's poem can be described as a rare and peculiar work.
"I am a lone wolf in the wilderness", in the sense of flaunting his personality, Ji Xian shows his wildness, which is very different from the gentle and elegant traditional style of the old intellectuals. Even poets like Li Bai and Su Dongpo, who have flaunted their personalities, do not compare themselves to "beasts". However, Ji Xian's self-comparison to a wolf seems to have his own personality basis.
What a lonely and vast realm is for a person who does not profess to be a "prophet" or infects others with "sighs," but whose constant multitude of mournful voices has been utterly long/ shakes the empty world of nothingness. Knowing that the earth is "empty" and still trying to "shake" it, knowing with an almost desperate mentality that it cannot be done, this is the cry of a poet in a state of extreme sorrow and indignation. Are there results? According to the poet himself, it "makes heaven and earth tremble as if it were malaria", which is of course his sense of self, but it is a feeling transmitted to the reader. "And blow a cool breeze, a fluttering", it is like hearing a fierce wind.
In fact, the poet only exaggerated a vent, and the facts may not be as "immediate" as he writes. The end of his poem reads, "It's a pleasure," and that's it.
Reading the ending of the poem, people can't help but have a feeling of "being deceived", it turns out that the poet only wrote poetry for "enjoyment", not to "be educated and inspired" by the reader? But if you think about it again, Ji Xian actually tells the mystery of the poet's motivation for writing poetry. On the other hand, he actually lets the reader understand what it takes to read poetry.
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Dream seekers
Dai Wangshu
Dreams will blossom,
Dreams will blossom into delicate flowers:
Go and ask for a priceless treasure.
In the blue sea,
At the bottom of the blue sea,
Deep hidden is a golden shell.
Go climb the iceberg for nine years,
Go to the dry sea that has been sailing for nine years,
Then you meet the golden shell.
It has the sound of clouds and rain in the sky,
It has the sound of the wind and waves on the sea,
It will enchant your heart.
Raise it in the sea for nine years,
Raise it in the water of heaven for nine years,
Then it opened in a dark night.
When your sideburns are spotted,
When your eyes are blinded,
Golden shells spit out peach-colored beads.
Put the peach-colored beads in your arms,
Put the peach beads next to your pillow,
So a dream rose silently.
Your dreams have blossomed,
Your dreams have blossomed into delicate flowers,
When you are old.
【Interpretation】
Dai Wangshu, who appeared on the poetry scene as a "poet of rain alleys", is well known, but Dai Wangshu, who explores the meaning of life as a "dream seeker", may not enjoy such a reputation. In fact, after the baptism of time, people will gradually recognize the difference in the weight of the two.
One of the great features of Rain Lane is its musicality, but Dream Seeker may not lose out on it in this regard. As far as the connotation and meaning of poetry are concerned, one is the dilution of the meaning of ancient poetry, and the other is the pursuit and exploration of real life, it should not be difficult to judge the superiority.
The implementation of the overall mood of "Dream Seeker" is actually a more unique expression of Dai Wangshu's personality and character as a poet.
Dai Wangshu is a persistent poet with a touch of melancholy and melancholy. At certain critical moments, the intensity of his feelings of home and country seemed to contradict his sad and melancholy character. Only this "Dream Seeker", whether it is the expression of emotions, or the persistent passion in the continuous soothing of the language, the perfect unity achieved in artistic expression, can be said to be breathtaking.
Life gradually achieves the purpose in the continuous pursuit, no matter how much satisfaction is finally obtained, it is always a spiritual satisfaction. Dai Wangshu may have a certain degree of idealization of the final result, but even so, he still has to melancholy say that only when you are old will you reach this state, is this not a kind of regret and helplessness in life?
It is true that people will not give up their lifelong pursuits because of this, but they still have to be prepared for many arduous treks.
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Purple gold crown
Chang Yao
One perfection I can't describe is the purple-gold crown.
I rejoice. If there is a divine revelation and I do not hesitate to speak out
It is the purple and gold crown. I walked on the seventh day of the Wolf Wasteland
The first star of hope that the servant saw was the purple and gold crown.
When the heat of the night killed my nine-year-old vitality with long spasms
The coolness I drank to the wall in the heat of the night was the purple and gold crown.
When the day reveals a wreath. When winning without a fight, perpendicular to the hilt of the sword
And the laurel projection where the graceful na intersects is the purple-gold crown that does not wither.
The awakening of humanity that I can not learn is the purple and golden crown.
The only secret I had to worry about being robbed was the purple and gold crown.
The inexhaustible height or cold silence is only the purple and golden crown.
【Interpretation】
"Purple Crown" no longer has the "Scratch, Scratch, Fathers!" At this time, Chang Yao has gone from enthusiasm to condensation. Perhaps in the depths of the poet's heart, there has always been and searched for the symbol of the "purple and golden crown". However, because its "inability to depict" shows its "perfect" character, and in its hazy beauty, it shows many faceted and ambiguous directions, so that Chang Yao himself cannot be clear about what it is, and can only use a "purple and gold crown" as a symbol to praise it. The series of "purple and golden crowns" in the poem are the spiritual sustenance that he has pursued all his life but cannot hope for.
Nowadays, few people say that Chang Yao's poems are "difficult to understand", but it does not mean that they really understand Chang Yao. The dilemma of "in the wolf wasteland" and "servant lying in the golden crown" presented in this song, and how to "drink the coolness to the wall in the drowsiness", and the series of "purple and golden crowns" will contradict and unify in a single image, and it is not something that those who have not experienced the hardships of life can enter.
Chang Yao almost expressed and expressed his lifelong belief in life, as well as all kinds of pain and joy in his struggle and fighting, in the praise and admiration of the "Purple Golden Crown". It can be said that the "purple and golden crown" coexists with his life and is the spiritual pillar of his life. In a poem of just eleven lines, the word "purple and golden crown" appears as many as eight times, which is not only the requirement of the inner rhythm of the poem, but also the violent beating of the pulse of the poet's life. In a more profound sense, the individual life of the poet can disappear, but the poetry that beats as the pulse of life can exist forever in the human world, and can also be transformed into all flesh and blood vital signs, melting into the spiritual composition of all people.
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☆ Content Introduction
In the process of the development of new poetry in the past hundred years, many poets are scattered with stars, and the poems are even more vast. This book tries to explore the pearl in the sea of poetry, and among many poets, one hundred masterpieces by Hu Shi, Ai Qing, Mu Dan, Bian Zhilin, Xu Zhimo, Dai Wangshu, Yu Guangzhong, Luo Fu, Zheng Shuoyu, Chang Yao, Beidao, Gu Cheng, Shu Ting, Hai Zi and others are selected to comment on them, with the expectation that from the perception of poetic works, the pursuit of beauty in human nature and the experience of the pulse of the times are reflected.