After reading Shuntaro Tanikawa's "To Be Alive", I feel that Shuntaro Tanikawa's poem "To Be Alive" is really well written, which shows a gesture of life in simple language. It is difficult for us to give a philosophical definition to this gesture. Shuntaro Tanikawa intercepted several scenes with material orientation in his life and conveyed his yearning for the origin of life. This yearning is the yearning for freedom. In the face of helpless living environment and irritable mentality, nothing can be forced, only love and the warmth of one's own life can be used to understand the true meaning of life. ...
Shuntaro Tanikawa feels alive after reading Tanigawa's poems, which is a basic theme of his poems. In this collection of poems, there are two poems that directly concern about life, and this is one of them. As we all know, Japan is a nation with a high suicide rate, not only in Asia, but also in the world. The love for the cherry blossoms that once withered cleanly, the admiration for the Bushido spirit, their intolerance and desire for transcendence, and the shadow of the atomic bomb explosion and the failure of the war all invisibly influenced the Japanese views on death and life and death.
However, in this poem, "being alive" is repeatedly recited and almost becomes a belief. "Lily kept me alive in June/dead fish kept me alive/puppy wet by rain/sunset glow kept me alive that day ..." Lily, fish, puppy and sunset glow, things from nature and around, even "faces suddenly looking back", all brought endless warm and painful memories to the poet, because they entered the poet's life and witnessed human survival and life. "Unforgettable memories keep me alive", even "death" keeps me alive.
As a poet who was born and stood up on the ruins of the atomic bomb (which can't destroy everything), Tanigawa has a unique and profound sense of life. He loves life, and the tragedy of life did not make the poet lose his feeling and belief in life. In another poem entitled "To be alive", the poet wrote: "To be alive/to be alive now ... means that people are in love/your hands are warm/live". Live because of "love", because of "blind", "distorted", unfamiliar but unforgettable love. Living is a feeling of life and an eulogy of life.
Attachment: The original text of "Living"
Living in the present is thirst.
It's the dazzling sunshine among the branches.
It's a sudden melody.
It's sneezing
Is to hold hands with you
fidget
The so-called living in the present
That's a miniskirt.
This is the planetarium.
It's johann strauss
It's Picasso
This is the Alps
Is to meet all the beautiful things.
Besides, it is necessary.
Beware of hidden evil.
fidget
The so-called living in the present
Dare to cry
Dare to get angry
This is freedom.
fidget
The so-called living in the present
At the moment, it is the barking of dogs in the distance.
Is the earth spinning now?
It is the cry of the birth of life somewhere now.
Now the soldiers are injured somewhere.
Now it's the swing of the swing
Now is the passage of time.
fidget
The so-called living in the present
It's the birds spreading their wings.
This is a rough sea.
This is a snail crawling.
People are in love.
It's the temperature of your hand.
This is life.
I recommend it carefully.