Appreciation of New Poetry

Yaxian 1949 came to Taiwan with the army, and 1965 sealed his pen. His collection of poems, Abyss, is the most widely spread and far-reaching one since the New Culture Movement, such as "Today's Clouds Copy Yesterday's Clouds", "The necessity of gentleness, the necessity of affirmation, and the necessity of drinking sweet-scented osmanthus". However, he is extremely critical of his own works, such as Red Corn and Salt, which were not selected for Abyss at first.

Enjoy together, Yaxian's salt, Yaxian's salt.

note:

1.Ermami (èr mā ma), pronounced by grandmother as "mā", means old woman, grandmother or mother. This may be the poet's grandmother, or it may refer to rural women or humble little people who suffered in the old society.

2. Quitting Dostoevsky is Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Russian writers, most of their works reflect the sadness of the little people at the bottom of society. Fyodor mikhailovich Dostoevsky translated from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

3. Snow, Xie Lang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty "The gas difference of sprinkling salt can be simulated."

4. party member is from Wuchang. Refers to the Wuchang Uprising of19110, which started the first shot of the Revolution of 1911.

Love stories overflow, mysterious sentences wander through the city, and poets who drift with the tide are narcissistic. But the poem Salt by Yaxian made me realize the surrealism of Genesis poetry, and the diversity and writeability of China's theme also made me see the hope of poetry.

Concerns about the fate of poor little people have existed since ancient times, such as Bai Juyi's Selling Charcoal Weng, "Poor people wear simple clothes, worry about charcoal, and wish the weather is cold", Zhang Yu's Silkworm Girl, "Luo Qi is not a sericulture man" and "Bitter Girl", "And year after year, she sews gold thread for other girls and sews it on her wedding dress" (of course, it is also a self-metaphor. The second Mammy is just an unknown name and story, and it is a microcosm of the people at the bottom of Qian Qian. Different from the ancient poets, Yaxian seems to look on coldly, and mamie's fate is irreversible.

The irreversible fate is a tragedy, a man-made tragedy of the times.

Without salt, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. Salt is also a symbol of ordinary life and a representative of the most basic means of subsistence. What can we eat without salt and peas? Turn to angels, turn to the minister of salt affairs, turn to communist party people, and Dostoevsky. But no one could help her, and the angel laughed at her instead. Even Dostoevsky would not understand the melancholy in rural China, let alone write sympathy for an old woman.

My understanding is that angels, salt ministers, communists and Dostoevsky are also symbolic. Angels are naturally the spiritual sustenance of religion, not necessarily Christianity, but also Buddhism's purdue sentient beings to save suffering; Minister of Salt Affairs refers to feudalism in Qing Dynasty; Republicans are hope Democrats in the new era, but at that time, the second-born mother was hungry and left; Dostoevsky symbolizes Soviet Russia, so I won't analyze it in detail.

However, they can't save the second sister. Salt is as white as snow, like pea flowers. The white earth is really clean, as if the second sister never existed, but strangely, there is always a sad and endless cry in the wind-salt, salt, give me a handful of salt!