They could fly up to the sky right now if they wanted to.
It is not for nothing that they do not leave us.
They lean their heads between their mother's breasts, and he cannot see her even for a moment.
The child knows all sorts of wise words, though few in the world understand what they mean.
It was not without cause that he so never wanted to speak.
One of the things he said he would do was to learn the words that came from his mother's lips. That's why he seems so naive.
The child had heaps of gold and beads, but he came into the world as a beggar.
It was not without cause that he so pretended to have come thus.
This lovely little naked beggar, so pretending this complete helplessness, is trying to pray for the wealth of his mother's love.
The child in the world of the slender crescent moon is free of all restraints.
He so gave up his freedom, not without cause.
He knows that there are infinite joys hidden in the tiny corner of his mother's heart, and that the sweetness of being embraced in her dear arms is far better than freedom.
The child never knows how to cry. He dwells in a land of complete joy.
It is not without cause that he should weep.
Though he has used the smile on his lovely face to tease his mother's ardent heart toward him, yet his little cries for a fine reason are woven into a band of the double constraint of pity and love.
* "The Way of the Child" is a prose poem that gives us a sense of mother-child bonding, of mother-child love, so intimate, so affectionate, that it shapes a fascinating world of children.
The poem is from The Crescent Collection, a famous collection of children's prose poems by Rabindranath Tagore, who was also known as the "Children's Poet" after its release.
The whole poem **** five stanzas, for us to depict the image of an innocent and lovely child. He has all the good things, but there is always a more attractive force in the world that calls him, and that is - mother's love. This child tries to get mother's love by all means, a smart, well-behaved child just like ourselves. Reading this poem makes one feel as if one were in a sunny spring, the soft warmth of the blue sky's eyes, the mellow sweetness of the wind's laughter, the fluttering violet swallows cutting out the graceful willows, the warmth of the rain kissing the shy corolla of flowers. The child's innocence expresses the attachment and longing for mother's love, mother and child love, touching.
The poet first unfolded a rich imagination, giving the child "can fly to the sky," the power of God, but he did not want to leave, even if only a quarter of an hour, because the power of the mother's love is too great, "he loved to lean his head on the mother's chest", here! He loved to lean his head on his mother's breast", where there was a comfortable temperature and the most charming smile in the world, and this attachment was enough reason for him to stay.
Then the poet brings out the child's innocence. "The child knows all kinds of smart words", he can question the pillow "Why are you so fat"; he can also say "Mom's arm is like the moon, rocking me to sleep every day". ...... Such wise words can only come from a child's mouth, so "few people in the world understand the meaning of these words". But he prefers not to show off in front of his mother, and his mother **** with revel in the joy of babbling, which is the most cozy, the most heart-warming picture in the world.
"The child has heaps of gold and beads", but these things are so insignificant compared to the mother's love. So he would rather be a "beggar", to "beg for the wealth of the mother's love", because only these can make him satisfied. Reveling in the swaddling clothes of being pampered and cared for is far more blissful than lying on a cold mountain of gold.
The fourth stanza of the poem takes the power of a mother's love to a new level. The child would rather give up the most precious "freedom", but also into the arms of his mother, because that "sweetness is far better than freedom". Perhaps in the life with the mother, always from the mother's mouth to say a lot of "can not", but it is precisely because of the existence of these "can not", so that we are so real to feel the happy feeling of being loved.
Crying is the most direct way for a child to express his emotions, and at the end of the poem, the author imagines the reason why the child gave up his "happy place" and made a "little cry". It is the "belt" of "pity and love" that firmly holds the heart of the mother and child, so that they have formed a lifelong love affair, and it is in this way that he wants to get the mother's pity and the sweetness of the embrace.
The poem so repeatedly emphasizes the child's "original", at first glance it seems to be "absurd", but after the author and the "love of the mother" a combination, but give a sense of reality, seemingly The author's words are a sign of the child's deep love for his mother. For the child, the mother's heart is his hideout in the golden house, the mother's smile is the full moon, the mother's arm is a warm cradle.
In this poem, the poet devotes himself to eulogizing the most precious things in human life - childish innocence and motherly love. He used his genius to create an artistic image of an angelic child who is both divine and glittering. This is a great contribution of the poet to the world of children's literature! The reason why this child's image is so touching is mainly due to two aspects: one is the poet's philosophical artistic ideas, and the other is his extraordinary imagination. These two aspects, also embodied in the entire "Crescent Collection", so that this famous collection of children's poetry, in terms of thought and art, reached a new height.