Jia Changqing.
In my mind, "Mother's Baggage" is Mr. Wang Guangyuan's famous and representative work. This poem was written in the eighties of the last century, when modern Chinese new poetry was the most glorious, and it is his early work. At that time, his lover started a business in Hainan, his son had just entered kindergarten, he was alone in the unit to undertake the editing work of a large publication, and at home and concurrently served as a father and mother. The poem "Mother's Baggage" is a manifestation of his mood. In this poem, the poet uses real life as the background, focuses on the ups and downs of his mother's life, expresses his sincere gratitude and enthusiastic praise for his mother, and expresses the eternal feelings of children all over the world for their mothers. It contains the dual emotions of suffering and happiness, compassion and love.
Mr. Wang Guangyuan's hometown is in Xiqili Village, Jinzhuang Town, Huguan County. In the sixties and seventies of the last century, the vast majority of villagers lived a life of lack of food and clothing. Agricultural planting, relying on the weather for food; No work, no business, lack of food and clothing; There is no electricity in many places; There are sheep intestine trails between villages; boil water for cooking with dry firewood; Donkeys, horses, and ox carts are the only means of transportation. Thus, the poem paints a bleak picture. "When my mother married into my family, the wedding dress was borrowed, the cracked round mirror was borrowed, and there was only one furoshiki, which was woven by the homespun cloth, and the noroshiki with a blue background and white checkered was her own. In such a remote and isolated environment, my mother faced a one-way street, but she still supported the whole family with her stubborn personality, kind character, sober mind and broad mind, with yearning, dreams and expectations for the future. "With this furoshi, wrapping firewood, rice, wind, rain, sorrow, and joy, I also wrapped my grandparents - the fineness of my grandfather's hard-working grandmother, and later I wrapped it in, grandpa's generous grandmother's "wealth fan", the years of the eldest sister, the military shoes and millet before the package, the time of the younger brother, and the bran skin of the big collective"; "Without the furoshiki, the family will be scattered, and the mother is a furoshiki, wrapping the whole family, but she is exposed." The poet gave the mother a beautiful and tragic color between the lines, forming a real, vivid, vivid, and touching lyrical artistic conception. Here, he metaphorically compares the reality of poverty and backwardness to "mother's baggage", and recreates the scenes of barren fields, migratory villages, and strong winds in all seasons in an ethereal way. And my mother herself, in an embarrassing situation, a hard bone that refuses to compromise with difficulties and bows her head to fate, a Fan Zhongyan in front of Yueyang Tower, who is unlucky but indomitable, obsessed with hope but willing to stay poor.
From "Mother's Baggage", I vaguely heard the poet pouring out in a low voice, confessing in tears: for my mother's birth at the wrong time, for my mother's lost youth, for my mother's simple personality charm and moral feelings, this is the power behind the words. An important artistic feature of this poem is the use of symbolism to lyricism. Symbolism is an artistic genre that emerged in French poetry at the end of the nineteenth century, emphasizing the use of suggestive metaphors and other means to express the feelings of inner moments, and lyrical in symbolic images and artistic conceptions. The "furoshiki" that runs through the whole text of the poem is not a concrete portrayal of real life itself, but a lyrical image full of symbolism. Immersed in it, I can appreciate the full poetry expressed by its images, which is both subtle and clear, dignified and elegant, and then broadens the vast world of galloping imagination, reflecting the gloomy and dreary atmosphere of the society at that time, the collective unconscious of spiritual hunger, and the empty sense of existence of life.
Chen Chao emphasized in "Essays on the Poetics of Life" that the light of a good poem is in the form of an attack, but this "attack" is the result of long-term accumulation. "Mother's Baggage" sings the praises of mother's greatness with one-stop syllables, simple and affectionate recitation, and vivid generalization, and the love it expresses is not only pure and hot, but also deep and heavy. The poem has a total of 4 stanzas and 27 lines, each line has a different number of words, and the beginning and end are connected, echoing up and down, maintaining a smooth rhythm and reverberating melody. It reads like a soft, soothing and harmonious serenade. This exploration and pursuit of the inner emotional rhythm of poetry shows the poet's aesthetic insights and the core of poetic concepts. I have always thought that language is the home of truth and poetry is the abode of poets. As the critic Huo Junming said: "A poet spends his whole life writing a poem in the ultimate sense, and many previous texts have worked hard and paved the way for this ultimate text." "I am sure that this poem by Mr. Wang Guangyuan is similar in style to Ai Qing's "Dayan River, My Nanny", Liushahe's "It's That Cricket", and Yu Guangzhong's "Homesickness". Putting it together with any poem in praise of the mother is not inferior and will never tire of reading.