Modern Chinese Literature "Phoenix Nirvana"

The phoenix in "Phoenix Nirvana" is a symbol of the nation and the motherland, and it can be said that Guo Moruo's "Phoenix Nirvana" is a declaration of the poem of national awakening.

Guo Moruo's main works include the poetry collection "Goddess", "Starry Sky", "Restoration", etc., and the historical dramas "Qu Yuan", "Tiger Rune", "Cai Wenji" and so on. "Phoenix Nirvana" is selected from the poetry collection "Goddess".

"Phoenix Nirvana" is imaginative, brightly colored and full of romantic characteristics. At the same time, the poems integrate all things in the universe and the self, creating a realm of unity and harmony of all things, which not only expresses the poet's desire to merge with the people of the motherland, but also has a strong pantheistic color.

In terms of poetic form, the poetic form completely breaks the shackles of the old poetic rhythm, boldly draws on modern Western free-form poetry, achieves free and unrestrained form, and realizes the great liberation of poetic style. It borrows the ancient legend of the phoenix "collecting incense wood to self-immolate and resurrect from the ashes of death", showing a strong patriotic passion and the spirit of the times.

The form of the poem "Phoenix Nirvana" is characterized by a free body, and the length of the verses is uneven.

"Phoenix Nirvana" shows a strong patriotic passion and the spirit of the times, with a bold and beautiful imagination, completely getting rid of the old poetry, achieving the "great liberation of poetry", with pantheistic colors, the phoenix is both the image of the rebel of the old world and the image of the creator of the new world.

In the phoenix nirvana, the new world that the phoenix yearns for is characterized by freshness, purity, beauty, and fragrance.

A brief analysis of the romantic characteristics of "Phoenix Nirvana".

1) The poet expresses the ideal of revolution with the revolutionary poetry of volcanic eruption. The poet created the lofty and pure image of the phoenix, the indomitable struggle image, expressed the voice of the Chinese people, showed the strong will to resist and the creative force, praised the happy and bright new China, and expressed the warm vision, pursuit and firm belief in the revolutionary ideal.

2) The poems are based on myths and legends, and the conception is full of fantasy and imagination, which greatly expands the expressiveness and appeal of poetry. Coupled with vivid metaphors and lyrical, musical poetic language, the romantic artistic style was formed.

Analyze the phoenix image and its symbolic significance in Guo Moruo's "Phoenix Nirvana".

1) "Phoenix Nirvana" establishes a magnificent and lofty image of the phoenix through five festivals such as "Phoenix Song". In the "Phoenix Song", with the phoenix's inquiry into heaven and earth, the exploration of the universe, and the curse on the world, they express their resentment, doubt and denial of the old world and the old society; in the "Phoenix Song", the phoenix is compared to a lonely boat in the sea with a confused future, and a "dream in the night", lamenting their sorrow, trouble, loneliness, and decay, conveying the negation of the old self. The phoenix is the rebel of the greater rebellion, who completely negates the old world, including the self, and resolutely burns everything with fire. The phoenix set incense and set itself on fire, while the birds sneered and sneered and were complacent. "Song of Birds" reflects the beauty and sublimity of the phoenix image through the ugliness of the birds. The phoenix is reborn in the fire, and "The Song of the Phoenix Rebirth" is the phoenix's joyful singing of the new self and the new world, and the singing is full of their warm yearning for a better future and their desire to create a bright world. The reborn phoenix is pure, gorgeous and fragrant.

2) The phoenix in "Phoenix Nirvana" is not only the embodiment of young poets, but also the symbol of the nation and the motherland. Phoenix's strong curse and deep sorrow for the universe, reality and the old self truly reflect the poet's patriotism and rebellious spirit awakened by the May Fourth Movement. The phoenix completely negated the old world and resolutely burned everything with a fiery fire, which embodied the poet's spirit of complete anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism and the revolutionary spirit of reshaping the new self. The rebirth of the phoenix and the singing of the new world symbolize the poet's unswerving optimism and the creation of a bright progressive social ideal in this world. The phoenix is also a symbol of the motherland and the nation, heralding the demise of old China and the awakening and rejuvenation of the nation.

The main theme of Guo Moruo's poem "Coal in the Furnace" is to express the poet's love for the motherland; the artistic characteristics of poetry: a. anthropomorphic technique (analogy, object anthropomorphism) b. free body poetry, structure, musical beauty.

"Phoenix Nirvana" depicts the suffering of the old China from the perspective of space, cursing the cold and dark old world.

In the poem "Phoenix Nirvana", the "Phoenix Song" part symbolizes the song of women, boldly abandoning the old self in pathos, and realizing the renewal of one's own life. In the chant, the animal that asks where the freshness, luscinity, brilliance and joy of youth went is the phoenix.

The artistic features of Guo Moruo's "Phoenix Nirvana".

The poems are imaginative, brightly colored and full of romantic characteristics. At the same time, the poems integrate all things in the universe and the self, creating a realm of unity and harmony of all things, which not only expresses the poet's desire to merge with the people of the motherland, but also has a strong pantheistic color. In the form of poetry, it completely broke the shackles of the old poetic rhythm, boldly used modern Western free-form poetry, achieved free and unrestrained form, and realized the great liberation of poetry. In addition, a large number of questions, comparisons, and repetition techniques are used, and the poetry has been expressed smoothly, and the rhythm has been bright and suitable for recitation.

In Guo Moruo's "Phoenix Nirvana" "Flock of Birds", the song belonging to the white crane is "Are you dead?" Are you dead? / From now on, please see us wandering in a high-minded manner! ”

The part of the poem "Phoenix Nirvana" that sings "harmony", "freedom" and "love" is "Phoenix Rebirth Song"

On the theme of "Phoenix Nirvana":

1) With the help of the legend of the phoenix "collecting incense wood to self-immolate and resurrect from the ashes of death", it expresses the hope of intellectuals in the May Fourth period to realize the renewal of their own lives

2) Expresses the ideal of a progressive society that dares to completely destroy old things and create light in the present world.

3) Phoenix Nirvana symbolizes the awakening and renewal of the country and the nation, showing a strong patriotic passion and the spirit of the times.