In Tagore's New Moon Collection, children "build houses with sand and play games with empty shells. They weave the fallen leaves into boats and put them on the sea with a smile. " They also asked a lovely question: "Can anyone catch the full moon hanging on the branches of Catambo at night?" They have wonderful imagination, eager to be a golden flower, eager to be with their mother all the time. "If I play around, I will become a golden flower, growing on the high branches of that tree, laughing in the wind and dancing on the new leaves. Mom, do you know me?" "Crescent Moon Collection" also describes the deep feelings between children and mothers. He knows that a small corner in a loving mother's heart can hold endless joy, and it is far sweeter than freedom to be caught by her mother and held tightly in her loving arms. When a child asks her mother how she came into this world, she will say, "When I was a girl, the petals of my heart opened, and you were like a flower fragrance." Or "the first darling of heaven, the twin brother of dawn, you floated down from the stream of life in the world and finally stopped in my heart." In the poet's pen, the mother in the poem has a holy brilliance, bringing the children the best feelings in the world and the deepest love of the loving mother.
If Tagore praises children's love for their mothers, it is like a clean stream, which produces lively beauty and pure beauty under the refraction of sunlight; Then, Tagore's description of children's love for nature is like a bamboo flute on a moonlit night, and the aesthetic feeling is so quiet and pure. Tagore believes that the most fundamental principle of the universe is harmony and coordination, and man and nature are interdependent and harmonious in essence. In his view, the relationship between man and nature should be just like that between a child and his mother. Only by embracing nature can human beings find "the road to the other side of the endless sea of happiness". Children's pure love for nature represents human's desire to "embrace nature". This may be Tagore's most sincere wish in the turbulent environment of India at that time.
Tagore adopted three narrative perspectives in the New Moon Collection: the child, the mother and the poet himself. Every poem is a pure perspective, either for the mother, or for the child, or for the poet's own panoramic perspective; In Crescent Moon, the poet sometimes becomes a naive and lovely child, and sometimes becomes a gentle and kind mother. Through the children's novel and lively imagination and the mother's words of true love, this love is turned into a beautiful concrete image, which produces a fascinating charm. The singularity of the protagonist's identity in poetry from a simple perspective excludes the complexity and diversity of the individual identity role as a social person, which leads to the simplicity and novelty of the poetic language in plot narration and emotional expression, and does not include the utilitarian thinking of secular society and the fixed thinking of people's cognition of things after multiple socialization; It reflects the poet's emotional feelings, rather than people's habitual rational cognition.
Among the 37 songs in "New Moon Collection", 20 songs are written in a child's tone, which belongs to a pure child's perspective. 12 songs are presented in the form that mothers love their children, and also express their actions and psychology. Another five poems are about poets who are divorced from their mother and son, or look down on the affection between mother and son, or recall their happy childhood like grown-up children; The latter two can be regarded as another change in children's perspective. This unique aesthetic perspective creates a fantastic and unfamiliar atmosphere of poetry collection.
Tagore's existential attitude of "viewing things with me and viewing things with love" makes the natural landscape in the collection of poems "Crescent Moon" have a strong subjective color of the poet. In the poem, people can't see the poisonous sun and dry land in Bangladesh, but only beautiful poetic landscapes such as lush trees, white reeds and wandering ducks. Du Fu once explained that when people look at nature with emotion, it will naturally take shape. The poet outlined a quiet and leisurely meticulous painting with delicate brushstrokes, expressing the poet's infinite yearning for a harmonious life. You know, India was a turbulent social environment. From 1908 to 19 19, India's national liberation movement fell into a low tide. Tagore withdrew from the national autonomy movement because of disagreement with the leaders of the National Congress Party, which was mainly reflected in rural issues, religious sources and ways of struggle, and returned to his hometown of Santa Nikita in 1907 to engage in ethnic education and literary creation.
Even in the dark night, the poet Tagore's pen will be full of poetry and painting. In the dark forest, "fireflies shine and consume their light", "pigeons coo where they live, and fairy anklets jingle in the starry night" (Sleepstealer). The poet's heart is full of love for everything, so in the dark night, his eyes are full of fireflies and stars; What the ears catch is the low voice of the dove of peace and the sweet jingle of the fairy anklets. There is not a word about love in the poem, but the poet's love for nature permeates this wonderful scenery.
In terms of artistic expression, The Crescent Moon Collection is light and beautiful in artistic conception, meaningful in language, giving people a cordial feeling, distinct in rhythm and full of musical sense. The overall form is a novel and lively prose style, which gives people a fresh and pleasant feeling when reading. In addition, the 37 small poems in the complete collection are very cleverly conceived. Almost all of them contain philosophy, which fully shows childlike innocence, maternal love and natural beauty. But the three are not isolated, but based on emotion and scenery: reason, emotion and scenery have reached a close and harmonious unity.
Every time I read Tagore's works, I always feel comfortable. Like a fresh wind blowing in front of me. In front of him, no deception or concealment can escape those sharp eyes, so we should be honest, because in the end, we often find ourselves cheated. In "New Moon Collection", children are surging with endless vitality of self-creation. We can immerse ourselves in it, explore and understand the vibrant secrets contained in it, and awaken the infinite potential of nature sleeping in it!