stagnant water
Wen Yiduo
This is a backwater of despair,
The breeze can't blow the slightest (yι).
Why don't you throw more rubbish,
Throw out your leftovers.
Maybe copper will turn green into jade,
A few rusty peach petals on the tin can;
Let greasy weave a layer of Luo Qi,
Mold steamed some clouds for him.
Let the stagnant water ferment into a ditch of green wine,
Filled with pearly foam;
Little Pearl smiled and became a big one.
I was bitten by a flower mosquito who stole wine again.
A desperate backwater ditch,
And a little image.
If frogs can't stand loneliness,
Dead water again. It is singing.
This is a backwater of despair,
This is definitely not the beauty,
Why don't we leave it to ugliness to cultivate,
See what kind of world it has created.
Enjoy 1:
Dead Water is one of Wen Yiduo's important representative works. After returning to China in 1925, the poet was furious with him when he witnessed the tragic situation of domestic warlords fighting and people living in poverty. Through the multi-angle and multi-level composition of the symbolic image of "stagnant water", this poem exposes and satirizes the corrupt old society and expresses the poet's despair, indignation and deep patriotic feelings towards the ugly reality. The poem A Desperate Dead Water is a symbol of semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China. Grasping the "death" of stagnant water, the poet first wrote the dead silence, then the color, and then the foam, which highlighted the stench and corruption of stagnant water and showed the feelings of "despair" incisively and vividly. Wen Yiduo is an advocate and pioneer of new poetry meter, and Dead Water is his "most satisfactory test" of new poetry meter. He stressed the need for "three beauties": music beauty, painting beauty and architecture beauty. The whole poem consists of 5 sections and 20 lines, each with 9 words, and the second and fourth lines of each section rhyme, with strong sense of rhythm and full of musical beauty. Many colorful words and images are used in the poem. Colorful words contrast the ugliness of the content and make the face of "stagnant water" even more disgusting. The whole poem consists of 5 sections, 4 lines in each section and 9 words in each line, which has both a sense of neatness in appearance and an inner sense of rhythm. "Dead Water" has made a serious and fruitful exploration for establishing the rhythm and form of new poetry.
Appreciation 2:
Dead Water is the most important work of Mr. Wen Yiduo, a representative writer of Crescent School. His brushwork is spicy and sophisticated, obscure and tortuous, with novel and delicate ideas, elegant and rich language and long meaning, which has always been praised. However, there has always been controversy about the thoughts and feelings contained in it. Some people think that stagnant water shows a kind of disgust, hatred and disappointment to the dark reality, some people think that stagnant water expresses a desire to destroy the world and create a new life, some people think that stagnant water conveys a bitter irony and ruthless curse to the old world and old things, and so on.
I think, in Dead Water, the poet's feelings can be said to be severe and cold mixed with fiery enthusiasm. For the former, it is easier to understand, because the poet's attitude towards the symbol of reality-"a ditch of desperate stagnant water" is like this. For the latter, it is difficult to be perceived because the poet's enthusiasm is hidden in fierce irony and clever teasing. Wen Yiduo felt very wronged and people didn't understand his mind. In a letter to the student Zang Zaike's family, he said: "You still keep saying that the author of Dead Water is only good at skills. God, where did this come from? "
"I only feel that I am a volcano without eruption. The fire hurt me, but I still don't have the ability (that is, the skill) to explode my shell and radiate light and heat. Only a few friends who have been with me for a long time (like the dream family) know that I have a fire, and I feel my fire in stagnant water. " What are the grievances, pains and fires in Wen Yiduo's heart? From the above two dialogues, it is not difficult to see that "unfairness" lies in people's misunderstanding that the skill of stagnant water is better than thought, and misunderstanding the author's creative basis and performance theme. The "pain" in the heart and the "fire" in the heart need to be analyzed in detail with the content of stagnant water.
"Pain" and "fire" are mutually causal and closely related. Pain is the condensation of sadness, anger, pain, disappointment and despair. Prolonged suffering and pain will undoubtedly arouse the author's anger, and the fire and anxiety in his heart will only increase the author's struggle and struggle. In its coldness and harshness, Dead Water is full of unstoppable fire. In my opinion, the word "fire" in Dead Water has two meanings: first, it refers to the poet's anger at the darkness, ugliness, corruption and sin of reality; Second, it refers to the author's fiery enthusiasm for light, hope, struggle and rebirth. Why is there still a long way to go?
The whole poem consists of five sections, which are divided into three levels in turn. The first section is the first floor, the second to fourth sections are the second floor, and the fifth section is the third floor. The first and second stanzas are connected with each other, echoing each other from a distance, and the middle three stanzas are combined with movement and irony, which constitutes the main part of the whole poem. The first section "This is a ditch of desperate stagnant water,/and the breeze doesn't move at all." Section 5 "This is a ditch of desperate stagnant water,/This is definitely not beauty." The definition of "stagnant water" with "despair" twice not only shows the rotten, lifeless and hopeless status quo of "stagnant water", but also expresses the poet's hatred, indignation and despair of evil. The next sentence, firmly, hit the floor, like a court ruling, undoubtedly sentenced the criminal to death as soon as the town wood rang. On this basis, adding "the breeze can't blow half an inch" and "this is not the beauty", or exaggerating the description, or flatly denying it, is like adding insult to injury, adding fuel to the fire, cursing and flogging without mercy, that is, clapping and applauding, which is exciting. The first two and the last two "not as good" are summarized by the height of points and surfaces. The former is "it is better to throw more garbage and throw away your leftovers." Fighting evil with evil and fighting poison with poison are full of grief and excitement after death and despair. It can also be seen that this desperate stagnant water "is definitely not the beauty." It hides evil and practices evil, and it is sinful; It's alive and dying. The latter "it is better to leave it to the ugly to cultivate/see what world he has created" is by no means the author's disheartened and stand by, but the angry words of despair. Since such a desperate backwater cannot be transformed and saved, and it has rotted to the bone and is full of evil, it is better to let nature take its course and let it perish. Extremely sharp language subtly conveys the author's profound hatred for the dark reality and reactionary warlords. The implication of "look at what world he has created" is that if ugliness is cultivated, it can only be ugly and ugly, and evil is evil. He just made the world smoky and dark. In the face of such an enviable black-and-white society, with no distinction between right and wrong, lack of justice and no hope, can you expect it to create a "what world"?
Appreciation 3:
The poet came back from America with ardent love and sincere hope for his motherland, but the dark social reality made him sad and disappointed. The intense emotion was solidified by the cold social reality, and the image of "stagnant water" in the poet's mind was constructed. Dead Water is a true portrayal of that society: green, lifeless and hopeless. Through this ditch, "stagnant water" gushed out the anger and pain generated by the poet. The positive significance of poetry lies in that the curse on the old society is not only the catharsis of subjective feelings, but also the harsh exposure and criticism. Poems such as "throw more garbage and throw out your leftovers" and "stagnant water is fermented into a ditch of green wine" are exactly what poets use to reproduce the disgusting social essence, so-called "to the point"!
The brushwork of stagnant water is spicy and delicate.
First of all, irony is often used, that is, beautiful and bright words are used to express the poet's extreme hatred, such as "turning green into jade", "rusting a few peaches" and "steaming a few clouds". The poet outlined the dark social reality in his own unique way and expressed his attitude of never cracking.
Secondly, as an advocate of metrical new poetry, the poet strives to practice metrical new poetry. The whole poem, * * * consists of five sections, with four sentences in each section and nine words in each sentence. It rhymes alternately and has a rhyme in each section. It is neat, catchy and full of charm.
It is the poet's ingenuity to write ugliness with vivid language and rigorous and harmonious rhythm, and then to enhance the criticism and denial of reality with carefully written ugliness.