Commentary on the Poetry of Ge Ming Cao
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The fall of a red maple leaf
Text/Deng Wanfa
At once far from my north
On a path dotted with red maples
When you really think about me
The leaves of the red maple floated in
It feels farther away from the sky, closer to you
It was as if I came with a kind of longing
When you pick it up, the cold red is like the color of your face
In the palm of your hand, the veins of the leaves connect to your blood
You gave her to me in the spring months
You melt the whole cold with your heart, but put
Warm thoughts for me. You take her
Tucked between the pages of a book that has been with me all my life
Every time I open that book, you're there
When you're lonely, you can look up your voice and smile
I love books that I have spent my whole life reading
The fall of a red maple leaf becomes an unforgettable pattern
December 2021
赏析
Overall, this poem is beautifully written, romantic, with a storyline and emotional sustenance, and it is a poem that supports things and aspirations. The poet stores the emotions of you and me in the falling red maple leaves, giving and collecting the leaves, one is to convey thoughts, the other is to see things and think about people, and the interaction of emotions is especially obvious in this poem. The poems do not express agitated emotions, but output emotions in a vivid and eloquent way, which is fresh, natural and comfortable to read, and there is persistence and affection hidden in the plain. The poet accurately grasps the characteristics of the red maple leaf and connects it with human emotions, which can only be done with the sensitive nerves and abundant emotional impulses of the poet. The handling of the details of the poem is also remarkable, and next, I will analyze the text in detail.
The whole poem has four bars, the content advances linearly, the structure is clearly hierarchical, the rhythm is gentle, the emotions are deepened section by section, and the faint feeling is written with deep friendship.
In the first stanza, the poet points out that the red maple leaves represent lovesickness. First of all, I explained the location and direction, indicating that the distance between you and me is quite far, and it is not easy to meet each other. The physical distance has brought each other's hearts closer, and the lovesickness has become stronger and stronger. Under the effect of distance and lovesickness, the poet had to forward his emotions to the red maple leaves. At the end of this stanza, "When you really think about me, the red maple leaves will float in", and when the poet thinks about each other, he writes poems. It shows that they miss each other, you and me.
In the second section, at the beginning, "I feel far away from the sky, close to you", this is a description of the state of the red maple leaf, and it is also a homeopathic injection of longing, so there is a contrast between far and near. The poet took advantage of the situation to borrow things to express his lyricism, so that the emotions could be continued in the red maple leaves. The next two lines show a more poetic side. A series of dynamic descriptions bring the red maple leaves to life, the color is like your blush, and the leaf veins connect your blood vessels, fully showing the imagination, and there is some emotional turmoil when reading. This paved the way for the following gift of red maple leaves.
In the third stanza, the poet chooses to give red maple leaves to her in the spring, and it is through the cold winter, which implies that emotions can stand the test and emotions are precipitated, rather than hot-headed impulses, which also shows the maturity and stability of your and my emotions. The poet then wrote, "You melted the whole cold with your heart, but you gave me warm thoughts", indicating that you are willing to pay for me, and I sandwiched the red maple leaves on the pages of the book that accompanied me all my life, indicating that I cherish this true feeling. This emotional interaction back and forth is written in a real and natural way, and a pair of people in love seem to be in front of their eyes.
The fourth stanza is written in a bit dreamy, and the first one is written with strong feelings, but although it is still an expression of emotion, it feels like a love that ends without a problem. As long as you open the book, you can see you, and when you are lonely, you can see you smiling when you open the page, but in the end they are not together, only the red maple leaf is present. Reading this, the poem reveals a touch of poignancy and regret. And the red maple leaf eventually became the totem of your and my love, and it remained in the book forever. Perhaps, for the poet, this is a wonderful encounter, and they are heart-to-heart with each other, and the love that is not together lasts the most.
This poem writes about long-distance love beautifully and movingly, with a small and fresh pleasure, a mature and stable emotional precipitation, love happens at the same time as you and me, what a wonderful encounter. Poetry uses progressive emotional expressions to make this love long-lasting, a symbol of eternity, and deeply touching in silence. For this beautiful encounter in the poem, people are full of reverie, and for a while they doubt the truth of the story. Perhaps, the experience of others always seems strange to oneself, and I don't want to believe it, or maybe it is a problem of the limitations of experience. With love, it is possible to meet love, it is possible to have love, maybe the red maple leaf will fall in front of you one day, remember to pick her up bravely.
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Author: Deng Wanfa, 15 years in the army, with the rank of major, worked in the government department of Zhongshan City, and later founded a business and did business. Passionate about poetry.