Yueer! You are like a gilded sickle.
You knocked down the pine trees on the sea,
Oh, you knocked me down too!
Baiyun! Are you Ling Bing who quenches your thirst?
How can I swallow you down my throat to relieve my burning anxiety?
Interpretation:
The moon is associated with the gilded sickle. First of all, the crescent moon is curved and similar in shape to the sickle. The bright moonlight is also similar in color to the gilded sickle. , this is where the two are consistent. Secondly, in traditional thinking, Yue'er feels gentle but also cold at the same time, while the sickle gives people a cold feeling.
There is a hint of inconsistency here, and it is this inconsistency that reflects the poet's mood. When writing this poem, the poet was in love with a Japanese woman.
In the eyes of Chinese men, Japanese women are gentle and considerate, but no matter how considerate a woman is, unhappy things such as conflicts and misunderstandings will inevitably occur in love, and they will also get angry. At that time, he showed a cold and arrogant side, like a gilded sickle, the air-conditioning was overwhelming.
The poet uses the imagination of the moon like a sickle to cut people here to express his troubles in love. It can be speculated that when the poet wrote this poem, he may have had an unpleasant relationship with his lover, and his lover gave him a cold reception. with blow. Extended information
Writing background:
The poet has read Tang and Song poems since he was a child, and the Chinese classical literary tradition is reflected in his poems. The poet once studied in Japan and was deeply influenced by Japanese culture. At that time, Rabindranath Tagore's poems set off a craze in Japan, so Guo Moruo's poems also contained some traces of Tagore.
In terms of art, "The Goddess" is the first work of Chinese romantic new poetry, which pioneered and formed the new romantic poetry school. "The Goddess" stands out for its distinct romanticism. Its strong emotions and beautiful artistic images had an important impact on the Romantic poets at that time and later.
In terms of poetic form, "The Goddess" is a peak of free-style poetry, setting an example for the innovation and creation of poetry. It completely breaks through the shackles of the old poetry rhythm. The length of the stanzas and lines is irregular, and the rhyme has no fixed pattern.
Guo Moruo's "Goddess" is a new poetry collection that created a generation of poetry. This is its position in the history of the development of new poetry.
The bold style is the forerunner of the bold style in new poetry. Although there are works with a "beautiful but not masculine" style in "The Goddess", what represents the characteristics of "The Goddess" is Whitman's "majestic but not beautiful" style. Its imagination is novel, its language is rough, its momentum is majestic, its tone is exciting, and its writing style is unbridled. Its beauty is a kind of sublime, masculine beauty.