The title of the poem is Silent Night, and most of the pen and ink are used to describe the quiet night scene. Section 1 of the poem depicts a very ordinary picture: the moonlight is faint, and the pine forest outside the village is bathed in the moonlight; There are clouds and stars in the sky, which are easy to see in people's daily life.
Through the poem, the reader seems to see the poet walking alone outside the house in the dead of night, casually looking at the faint moonlight, the dim forest shadow in the moonlight, and looking up at the sparse stars leaking from the clouds. If you continue to write this plain idea of scenery writing, it will be just a good poem of scenery writing at best.
But at the beginning of the second section, the poet really asked, "Where is Tianhe?" This problem broadens and promotes the realm of the whole poem and brings the reader's vision and mind to the vast universe. The author seems to want to lead the reader's thoughts to "concentrating on the eight poles" and "roaming in Wan Ren", and seems to want the reader to see the infinite depths of the starry night through the boundless darkness.
However, the following sentence "the sea fog in the distance is blurred" brings back the thoughts that readers have just put down. Fuzzy sea fog can block people's sight, but it can't stop the runaway wild horse imagination.
At this point, the flying heart couldn't stop thinking for a long time-"I'm afraid there is Jiao Ren on the shore/on the moon?" This sentence perfectly proves that the poet's imagination has indeed crossed the vast sea fog, imagining that there is a "Jiao Ren" standing on the shore, silently shedding a string of pearl-like tears at the moon ... Is "Jiao Ren" crying with joy or sadness? Or endless yearning? This left readers with endless aftertaste.
Without the imagination of the latter paragraph, the scenery of the former paragraph is dull and lifeless. With the imagination of the latter paragraph, the common scenery becomes ethereal and beautiful. What is particularly commendable is that although there are differences between realism and imagination in the first and second sections, they all write the word "quiet", and the atmosphere of the whole poem is harmonious and unified. This poem is quiet and elegant, with well-organized words, sentences and lines, and full of the charm of classical poetry.
In this ethereal painting, there are deep reverie of the poet. On a quiet night at the seaside in a foreign country, there is an illusion of Jiao Ren "floating on the moon", which is the projection of the poet's soul of worrying about the country and the people.
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Ge Baoquan, a modern writer and translator, included a comparative paper on Chinese and foreign literature in Ge Baoquan: "Guo Moruo once said in the article My Poetic Course that his first contact with Tagore's poetry seemed to be a' fountain of life'. At that time, Tagore's poems were translated, and many of his poems, such as Silent Night, were influenced by Tagore and full of poetry. ?
Wang Zelong, a professor at the College of Literature of Huazhong Normal University, wrote in "The Artistic Choice of China's New Poetry: Selected Works of Wang Zelong": "After the ebb of the May 4th Movement, a pure and bright moon (star) image group flashed in the world of its melancholy emotional expression." ?
Zhang, a professor at the College of Literature of Tianjin Normal University, commented on the symbolism in Guo Moruo's poems: "The correspondence between the musical rhythm of Guo's poems and the internal emotional process makes its rhythm symbolic, which is consistent with Mu's musical view of symbolic poems ... Silent Night, which writes the beauty of nature, is neat in sentence pattern, corresponding in length, rhyming at random, harmonious in rhythm, elegant and elastic."
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