Appreciating a small poem is best suited in a roughly similar environment to the author or after an experience. Poetry, which is often roughly similar to the Zen principles of the Buddhists, is ineffable, because poetry works have been valued by implication since ancient times, and the so-called "taboo is noble". Bai Majun felt that reading modern poetry is the same, which is a criterion for judging the merits of Chinese poetry. Today we will enjoy a recent work by the famous Internet poet Yu Xiuhua.
"Traveling with Li Anyuan to Xuanwu Lake" The cruise is smooth on the lake What is turbulent are clouds projected under the water I met him, if you say Pingshui Throwing the word "Ping" ashore is the fusion of water droplets Anyuan you said: There are no fish that are afraid of water Holding the iron hook of the earth in your mouth? Anyuan you said, how much altar wine is hidden at the bottom of this lake For me to play against you? Come for me to light a fire to illuminate as you and me Such an encounter The boat sped around and returned to the tether We met in the second half of our lives It was as if everything had been obtained It was as if there was nothing You always lead me along I know such mercy In this life, you have only given me one
Like many poets, I prefer to read Yu Xiuhua's poems, because many of her poems are full of the so-called "smell of fireworks". What is the smell of fireworks? You and I can't write about life feelings, such as some similar skin pain, inexplicable sadness in the heart, epiphany in the heart, which is clear and refreshing, and pleasant feelings. When it is written by a poet, we will be amazed when we read it: this is the taste. Yu Xiuhua's "Touring Xuanwu Lake with Li Anyuan" is the same.
Things are clustered in groups, and people are grouped. When people get along with each other, they become friends. When poets meet each other to travel in the mountains, they often leave poems related to them and remember their travels. Looking at the title garden, we can see that Yu Xiuhua's poem belongs to the travel poem. Among the famous poems in the ancient poems is Meng Haoran's "Climbing the Mountain with the Sons": "Personnel affairs have metabolism, and exchanges have become ancient and modern." The country and mountains have left a trace of victory, and my generation has returned to the landing. The water is shallow, and the cold dream is deep. The sheep monument is still there, and the reading is stained with tears. Li Bai's "Climbing the Yueyang Tower with Xia Twelve": "The building looks at the end of yueyang, and the Sichuan Dongting is open." The geese lead the heart to go, and the mountain is good for the moon. The clouds are connected, and the cup is received in the sky. After getting drunk, the cool breeze rises and blows the people to dance the sleeves back. ”
These two poems Bai Majun liked to read. Poets like Li Baimeng Haoran are different from ordinary people in their hearts, ambitions, and spleens, which are reflected in their works, and can resonate with people with joys and sorrows. Coupled with the beauty of the rhythm of classical poetry, it is even more eloquent after reading. What if we were to write a work with a travel theme in modern vernacular poetry?
It's a bit difficult. One is that it is easy to write a boring and tedious narrative like flowing water; the second is that it conforms to the characteristics of modern vernacular poetry, conforms to the choice of the imagery of the chant, and does not agree with the jump in thinking between the elephants; the third is that because unlike ancient poetry, which is constrained by the rhythm of sound, the process of cutting a poem, such as refining words and sentences, is not so easy. Yu Xiuhua's song "Traveling with Li Anyuan to Xuanwu Lake" has done it. As a travel poem in the new poem, Yu Xiuhua wrote this poem as easily as if he were familiar with it, which can be described as a smooth flow.
At the beginning, the poet cites two things that he sees on the lake and is in between: the cruise ship on the lake and the cloud shadow in the lake. The first sentence seems very plain: "The cruise ship is smooth on the lake." This sentence conveys the poet's inner peace and joy through the waves of Xuanwu Lake, thus showing the harmony of the two friends' tacit understanding. The smooth cruise ship, the turbulent cloud shadow, these two things are stable and chaotic, one is still and one moving, reflecting each other into a scene, and contrasting into fun, so that people who have been reading the world for a long time cannot help but think of "floating clouds in the world", "after the floating clouds are separated, the flow of water for ten years", "walk to the end of the water, sit and watch the clouds rise", or "spring water boats like the sky sits". These two sentences are considered to be the beginning of the poem, by the cloud shadow and the boat. It led to two literary friends: "If he and I meet each other / Throw the Ping character ashore, it is the fusion of water droplets."
The two literary friends did not meet in Pingshui, they both agreed in advance to swim in the lake. Pingshui meets, from the early Tang Dynasty poet Wang Bo's "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion": "Guanshan is difficult to cross, who is sad to lose the road? Pingshui meets, all are guests of other places. This means that people who have never met meet meet in a moment. Du Gongbu also has a poem that says, "The land is divided into north and south and ren liu ping". Through the fourth sentence, it can be seen that although the poet uses the phrase "Pingshui meets", he does not feel that he and Li Anyuan are duckweeds that are drifting with the waves, because it has been said earlier that the boat is stable.
The poet suddenly wants to throw the word "Ping" ashore, and the two are "the fusion of water", secretly praising the stability of the ship of friendship between the two, just like the sound of flowing water, which can communicate and talk about everything, thus leading to verse 2 of the poem.
See? The poet's subtle and ingenious connection, the cleverness of the technique, is to unconsciously outline the pure friendship of the two people with the technique of Bixing, so as to achieve the purpose of pouring out heartfelt. The second verse of the poem is precisely that the poet is confiding his true feelings to the literary friends and lamenting the earthly world.
In verse 2, the poet asks two questions in a row, which is reminiscent of dancing. Perhaps the poet really asked Lee Anyuan such a strange question, but for the poet himself, he first asked himself: Are there fish that are afraid of water? Hold the iron hook of the earth in your mouth. This fish actually refers to herself. Love life, bitter love for life, not a god, but the same yearning for a comfortable and leisurely life. This is the first question in the poem.
The second question focuses on using metaphors to describe the longevity of their friendship. The poet compares two hearts to Xuanwu Lake and friendship to aged wine. Who can say how much wine the two of them have in mind to drink? This wine store should be available for them to drink and drink together for the rest of their lives. If you can't finish drinking, you will burn them into a raging fire and illuminate the liver and gallbladder of your best friend.
This section writes about life and friendship in a deep and subtle way.
Verses 10 through 14 can be seen as verse 3 of the poem. In this verse the poet opens up from verse 2, writing about life, talking about gains and losses, from the real to the virtual, like a dream whisper. Sentence 10 is an interpretation of the next 4 sentences. What kind of encounter? After a lap from the water and back in the same place, it's really like people meeting in the second half of their lives. Isn't it? Both of them have reached the age of more than half a hundred, infinite emotion after the wind and rain, and the surprise of seeing the rainbow again. What about gain, and what about loss?
The meaning of the encounter in verse 3 and the meeting of Pingshui in the first verse form a structure of a loop of repetition, which is incessant and intriguing.
Verse 4 turns back to the precious friendship described in verse 2, and from the language of dreams to the language of affection. Who can sincerely treat a woman like a poet? A woman who is inconvenient to walk, the most touching thing is the person who can support her, pity her, and respect her. A person is shaking in the human world, and she always has a bright moon in her heart, and this bright moon is the person who can understand her, the person who can swim with her in the lake and talk with her, but not necessarily the lover. After reading her poem, I know that she will cherish this person even more.
Yu Xiuhua's poem is cleverly conceived, deep and not lacking in agility, fresh and subtle, and is a good work that has been well received by poetry. How do you poets feel? Comments are welcome.