Text/Haizi
From tomorrow on, I want to be a happy person;
Comb hair, chop wood and travel around the world.
From tomorrow on, I will care about food and vegetables.
Living in a house facing the sea, spring is blooming.
From tomorrow on, write to everyone I love.
Tell them my happiness,
What did the lightning of happiness tell me,
I will distribute it to each of them.
Give every river and mountain a warm name.
Stranger, I will also wish you happiness.
I wish you a bright future!
May you lovers get married!
May you enjoy happiness in this world!
I only want to face the sea and spring blossoms.
Meaning:
This poem sings a poet's sincerity and kindness with simple and meaningful fresh language. The lyric hero wants to be "a happy person" and is willing to tell everyone "the lightning of happiness". Even a stranger will sincerely wish him "happiness on earth". Everything in the poet's imagination is so fresh and lovely, full of vigor and vitality, and there are positive emotions between the lines. At first glance, the whole poem conveys sincere wishes to people in a simple and cheerful way. ?
The sea is the core image in the author's poems, which is vast, relaxed and full of vitality. It is the hometown of the soul, the hometown of struggle, the ideal hometown, the spiritual destination of the author as a "son of the sea" and the place where he can find true happiness. Facing the sea and blooming in spring is a mirage, but it is a bright and happy feeling that the author can feel.
The moral of this topic lies in that it tears apart people's thinking patterns in reality, and then recombines them in a kaleidoscope, making them bright and beautiful with its own powerful leading thoughts. Of course, flowers will bloom in the hot land, but the author stubbornly ("I only wish") let him bloom in his own sea of happiness and pursue his own ideals. Everything in reality ("feeding horses, chopping wood, caring about food and vegetables") is only to support his body, make his heart beat and make his imagination fly.
The whole poem has two systems. A system begins with "feeding horses and chopping firewood" and ends with "starting to care about food and vegetables tomorrow" and "I have a house facing the sea and spring blossoms". Through his own description, the author reduces tomorrow's happy life to the minimum of secular life, pointing out that today's life is too fettered by secular trivial matters, and mainly focuses on material things to create a happy life. At the end of the poem, the phrase "I only want to face the sea and spring blossoms" is a distant echo of this rhyme system.
Facing the sea, spring blossoms, in an external sense, can be regarded as an important part of this rhyme system; On the whole, it is obvious that the phrases "facing the sea" and "blooming in spring" also rhyme.
This rhyming system reveals a relatively simple desire and sincere emotion by carefully depicting the pictures of daily life. The other system starts with "I wish you well, stranger" and ends with "I hope all lovers get married". This system is a link between the preceding and the following, which is not only the inheritance of "Tell them my happiness" in the second section, but also the precursor of the penultimate sentence in the third section "May you be happy on earth". It expresses the lyric hero's good wishes and loving heart. ?
The first paragraph of this poem is all about "I"; The second and third paragraphs, that is, the second part, are all about "me and others" The first sentence of the second part is "Correspond with every relative from tomorrow". From here on, the contact range of "I" has been expanding, from relatives to everyone, to every river and mountain, and finally to strangers. With the expansion of the scope, negativity and contradiction gradually penetrated into poetry until the opposition between "wish" and "only wish" was finally formed.
He writes letters to familiar people and wishes to strangers, hoping that they can be as happy as he is. If the form of happiness is different, then the experience of happiness should be the same, so in the last sentence, Haizi expressed his absolute confidence in the happiness he felt. Facing the sea, spring blossoms is a summary of two parts, one is my life and hope, and the other is my relationship with others.
At the end of the first paragraph, "I have a house facing the sea and blooming in spring" is positive and optimistic. There are no negative factors in the whole poem. This house is intoxicating. She was filled with joy and faced the vast sea. Her temperature is spring, and her face is a flower. As the summary of the first part, this sentence outlines the "my happiness" tomorrow.
When only "I" participate, "facing the sea and blooming in spring" and secular life are harmonious and intimate, which together constitute my happiness. My happiness includes feeding horses, chopping wood, caring about food and vegetables, and "facing the sea, spring blossoms."
The second part, when it comes to my relationship with others in the "world", there is some division, and others form some opposition with me. In this kind of opposition, "facing the sea and blooming in spring" can't be integrated with secular life, but it becomes the shelter, the last foothold, the last warmth and the last comfort for "me" after leaving secular life. Therefore, the contradiction of "I" is due to the appearance of the other. Tomorrow will be harmonious and beautiful before the other party appears. ?
The subject of all the sentences in the poem is "I", and there are five * * *, and each ending poem begins with "I": "I have a house facing the sea, which is in full bloom in spring", "I want to tell everyone" and "I just want to face the sea, which is in full bloom in spring". These three poems show three different states from possession to telling and then returning.
The last paragraph and the first paragraph of Spring Flowers constitute a cycle. Happiness starts from my world and gradually embraces people and the outside world. However, it finally returned to my Sea and Spring.
The first paragraph "facing the sea, spring blossoms" is the state of my world, a happy summary, and in the end, it has become my last sky and foothold. When I tried to spread the warmth of spring to the world, I suddenly found that my sunshine was really only for myself.
In the whole poem, the subjects are all "I", which lacks the communication between subjects. I pass it, shine it, take it back. All this is my own imagination, action and expression. Judging from the second paragraph, the theme of the poem is communication, from telling to blessing. However, everything is one-way, only "I", no dialogue between subjects, and even no imagination of other subjects, so the world is strange. ?
In the last paragraph of the poem, "stranger" is an interesting title. Strangers originally belonged to "everyone" in the second paragraph. Semantically, they are the same person, but they have two different relationships with me: one is everyone who wants to convey happiness, and the other is a stranger who wishes you good luck. They belong to my circle, and at the same time they are outside the circle, forming some ambiguity.
I tried to tell them my happiness and let them enter my circle, but in the end, in my mind, they still belong to the outside world. Stranger, I wish you the same. According to bernice's linguistic theory, "I/you" is the basic structure of communication. With me and you, there is communication. However, in poetry, this communication is destroyed by the title of "stranger". In daily life, after communicating with you, I am no longer a stranger.
Here, "I/you" is always a stranger, which means that the communication is not completed. Moreover, everyone who faces poetry is included in the title of "stranger" and becomes "you" blessed by Haizi. Just like the word "you", a stranger is also a word for "reciprocity". When Haizi called you a stranger, he actually regarded himself as a stranger to you and everyone. Strangeness is highlighted in communication and blessing, which is not a blessing to close the distance in daily life, but shows different wishes and values.
In terms of time, this is a poem starting from tomorrow. The first sentence of the three verses is an imperative sentence. The object of imperative sentences is not others but oneself, which is a call to oneself. The beginning of the poem is to summon one's own actions and the happiness of the world from the perspective of tomorrow.
The first two paragraphs of this poem belong to the future time, while in the third paragraph, it enters the time. The imperative sentences in the first two paragraphs are concrete actions, such as "being a happy person", "feeding horses, chopping wood, traveling around the world" and "communicating with every relative", all of which are actions in the "I" plan, while the imperative sentence in the third paragraph makes the poem enter an imaginary behavior and name the mountains and rivers, which is not an action that needs to be completed tomorrow, but written in "I".
Similarly, blessings and wishes are all what you want, and they are all completed at the same time as you imagine, and there is no need for "tomorrow". Poetry begins tomorrow, but today, when I finally say "I only want to face the sea and spring blossoms", I return to my inner reality. What I really want and get is the house facing the sea and blooming in spring, which is the house where I live alone.
Poetry completes a cycle in time and space, goes to the outside world in space and finally returns to its own small world; The time is from tomorrow to today. In this process of spatial diffusion, the time in poetry has lost helplessly, and the world that originally belonged to tomorrow has been transformed into a spatially inaccessible world, an impossible world. Time was abandoned.
The transformation from time to space is also reflected in the most important sentence of this poem. "I have a house facing the sea, and spring blossoms", this poem is analyzed from the structure and semantics. "Facing the sea" and "Spring blossoms" are descriptions of this house. It is common to decorate a house facing the sea, but it is strange that spring blossoms, because it is a description of time, not a description of space. Spring blossoms are a process in time, not an object in space, so when in Chinese, commonly known as "until spring blossoms", is a narrative of time, but the poet uses seasons to describe a house, which makes this time freeze in space and space. ?
The verb in the first paragraph is action, the verb in the second paragraph is telling, and the verb in the third paragraph is blessing (wish). At the beginning of the three paragraphs is an imperative sentence, which is a combination of desire and action. However, at the end of the poem, there is only one wish: facing the sea, spring blossoms. From the perspective of verbs, "I" returns from action to desire, from "being a happy person" to confirming the state at that time-I only want to face the sea and bloom in spring.
Finally, I gave up the action. Just like today, I have the beauty in my heart, but there is no happy life on earth. The poet gave up "tomorrow". In their comments, many critics emphasize that "happiness tomorrow" means unhappiness today. For example, Yang Wenjun wrote in "Melancholy Haizi, Melancholy Poetry": "The so-called' Be a happy person from tomorrow' is an ironic statement, which means that we are not happy now, and' tomorrow' is just a dim time." ?
These comments are reasonable, but poetry is more complicated and secretive. In fact, whether it is today's spring flowers or tomorrow's trip around the world, it is the realm of spiritual imagination, and people's happiness is not always a continuous state, always in yesterday's memory, today's feelings and tomorrow's expectations. The yearning for tomorrow certainly means some denial of reality, but it also flashes the hope of happiness.
The real sadness of this poem is not to tell the unhappiness of the present and the hope for tomorrow, but to give up tomorrow. "I" finally felt that the action I imagined was worthless to the world, and even there was no place for my action in my imagination. "Wishing only" is an affirmation of the present, but this affirmation is at the expense of denying tomorrow.
The first paragraph of the poem is an affirmation of tomorrow, "Be a happy person from tomorrow"-implying a denial of today. The "only wish" at the end of the poem is an affirmation of reality-implying a denial of tomorrow. If today's unhappiness is regrettable, then the denial of tomorrow is the real tragedy. Tomorrow, as a beam of light that illuminates today, passes away like lightning in a poem. It can't warm the world, strangers and my future.
Extended data:
Facing the sea, spring blossoms are a lyric poem written by Haizi in 1989. The whole poem has three parts. The first section shows the poet's yearning for a simple, simple and free life realm and his spirit of exploring "eternity" and the unknown world. The second section is the poet's uncontrollable joy after finding happiness. The third section is the poet's blessing to the world. The poet combines direct expression with hints and symbolism, making the whole poem clear and profound, clear and implicit, carefree and dignified, rich and colorful, and expressing the poet's yearning for happiness and loneliness.
This poem was written in 1989 65438+ 10/3, just over two months before the poet committed suicide on the railway track in March of the same year. The author belongs to the "generation" of "the night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light", and personally experienced the social transformation process from suffocating material desires in the 1960 s and 1970 s to abandoning spirit and material desires in the late 1980 s Facing the reality, the idealist author is confused and disillusioned, and feels that he can't "live poetically in the world". Compared with others who blindly indulge in the enjoyment of material life, he feels more pain from inner division and contradiction. This poem is the crystallization of his painful life experience. ?
The creative opportunity of this poem may also contain the elements of "love poem", and The Sea may also have specific references. Before his death, Haizi kept a friendly correspondence with his first love girlfriend who had broken up and moved to Shenzhen and was planning to emigrate overseas. Based on this, this "sea" image should be related to Shenzhen's imagination at the seaside or the first love girlfriend on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
Haizi (1964- 1989), formerly known as Cha Haisheng, is a contemporary young poet from Chawan Village, Gaohe Town, Huaining County, Anhui Province. Haizi grew up in the countryside. At the age of 65,438+0979, he was admitted to Peking University Law Department. 65,438+0982 began to write poetry during college. After Peking University graduated, he was assigned to work in the Philosophy Department of China University of Political Science and Law. On March 26th, 65,438+0989, he committed suicide near Shanhaiguan. He is only 25 years old.
1983 After graduating from Peking University, Haizi was assigned to work in the Philosophy Department of China University of Political Science and Law. 1984 created the famous works "Asian Copper" and "The Sun of Al", using Haizi as his pen name for the first time. In less than seven years from 1982 to 1989, Haizi has created works of nearly two million words, and published The Land, The Works of Haizi and Luo Yihe, The Poems of Haizi and The Complete Poems of Haizi, etc.
In the poet's life, from 1984' s "Asian Copper" to 1989' s last poem "Spring, Ten Haizi", Haizi created nearly 2 million words of poems, dramas, novels, papers and notes. Famous works include Asian Copper, Wheat Field, Dream as a Horse, Poetry for the Daughter of Night, etc.
Reference link:
Facing the sea, spring blossoms-Baidu Encyclopedia
Haizi (Contemporary Young Poet)-Baidu Encyclopedia