In modern ChinaPoetryIn the creation, sometimes there is a pair of prose with modernPoetryThe boundaries are blurred. On the one hand, the works of some modern poets are confusing and incomprehensible, lacking true lyrical emotion and difficult to touch the human heart. On the other hand, some people are accustomed to the traditional poetic style for the modern eraPoetryThe characteristics of the free form and branch sections feel strange and incomprehensible.
However, in this context, we cannot ignore the Chinese languagePoetryIt has been evolving and changing for thousands of years. Although nowadays some consider modernPoetryhas departed from the traditional style, but in fact, modernPoetryIt still reflects the poet's yearning for the good things in life, as well as their desire for lifePhilosophyCapture and freeze frame of thought.
Recently, I've been following a female poetYu Xiuhuaworks of hersPoetryJust like a clear spring, it reveals the poet's deep thinking and love for life in simplicity and simplicity. Among them, I particularly like one of her poems, "Dusk in the Back Mountain".
The poem consists of four stanzas, each with four lines, and the poetry is plain and simple, exactlyYu XiuhuaPoetryThe embodiment of style. However, behind this simple text, there is the poet's yearning for the beautiful things in life and his desire for lifePhilosophyReflections.
The poet's hometown is a hilly area, and the so-called back mountain is just a relatively large mound. The mound in the poem refers to the back mountain. The first stanza of the poem depicts a twilight moment, the setting sun caress the earth, and the poet sits alone on the mound, gazing at the flowing water, lamenting the impermanence of the passage of time. This verse alludes to the transience and irreversible passage of life.
Poets useButterflies, a kite and a cow grazing grass are used as a metaphor for the different trajectories of life, they all have a clear destination and goal, and the common feature of life is that it is constantly changing, and has a clear goal. The poet expresses her understanding and emotion of life by depicting these things. And in these life changes, the poet grasps the new grave that appears on the mountain behind, and shows the fragility and heaviness of life through the expression of the fear and comfort of the end of life.
The poet further pondered the relationship between life and death, and used the description of "a person walking in is always light" to express the impermanence of life as thin as paper and as light as paper. People can bargain, but the end of life is something that cannot be ignored and joked about.
The psalmist calls on people to chew on life and savor it in order to understand life thoroughly. But compared with the grandeur of life, such a taste is nothing more than an episode like an old cow gnawing grass. At the end of the poem, the poet sits alone on the back mountain, saying "Let's go back" to a grass under the starry sky, expressing his yearning and memories for the past and youth, and showing the poet's deep thoughts and emotions.
In general,Yu XiuhuaThe poem "Dusk in the Back Mountain" shows the poet's keen observation and thinking about life and nature, as well as his affectionate understanding of life. The poem is simple and simple, but it contains rich connotations and emotions. Through this poem, we can seeYu XiuhuaAs a poet of the gift and her rightPoetryThe pursuit and practice of creation.