The Original and Translation of The Dreamer

Dreams will blossom, and dreams will bloom beautiful flowers: to find priceless treasures. In the blue sea, at the bottom of the blue sea, there is a hidden golden shell.

You climbed an iceberg for nine years, you sailed for nine years, and then you met a golden shell. It has the sound of clouds and rain in the sky, it has the sound of wind and waves on the sea, and it will fascinate your heart.

Keep it in seawater for nine years, in Tianshui for nine years, and then bloom in the dark. When your temples are covered with spots, when your eyes are hazy, golden shells spit out peach beads.

Put the peach beads in your arms and put them on the pillow, and a dream comes quietly. Your dream blooms, your dream blooms, when you are old.

The Dreamcatcher was written by a modern poet, Dai Wangshu. This poem is a song of the beautiful soul of the dreamer. Through the description of "dreaming-dreaming-dreaming again", the poem sings the poet's mental journey of pursuing ideals, looking forward to the light, going through hardships and searching up and down.

Poetry uses symbolic techniques and uses "golden shell" as a symbolic metaphor to describe the process of dream seekers' pursuit of ideals, which is rich in artistic conception and beautiful.

Creation background of extended materials: The Dreamcatcher was written on1932165438+1October 8, just before the poet went to study in France. At this time, the poet has withdrawn from vigorous social activities and engaged in literary and artistic activities with Shi Zhecun, Mu Shiying and Du Heng. Express personal feelings and various life experiences through artistic activities.

At this time, the poet fell in love with Shi Zhecun's sister Shi Jiangnian for five years. The problem is that Shi Jiangnian did not give the poet a corresponding warm return.

The poet once courted Shi Jiangnian by suicide, and Shi Jiangnian agreed to marry him for this reason. As the poet wrote, "I have a paper twist on my finger" ("Dream City"), but Shi Jiangnian put forward quite harsh conditions for the poet, requiring a college diploma or above and a fixed income. There is no way, the poet wants to study abroad. Before he left, the poet wrote a poem "Dreamer".

The key to this poem is to understand the emotional style of the whole poem We should not pay too much attention to the tragic connotation and corresponding emotional style of poetry, but ignore its comic emotional adjustment. This understanding actually covers up the other side of the emotional connotation and style of the poem, that is, the profound experience of the absurdity of life and the self-mockery of the lyric hero on this basis.

This poem symbolically constructs three difficulties in finding dreams. The first stage of the dream is to find the "golden shell". To find it, you must climb the iceberg for nine years (that is, many years, the same below) and sail for nine years. The second stage of the dream is to find the "peach pearl". To find it, you must raise it in seawater for nine years and in Tianshui for nine years.

The third stage of a dream is to make it blossom and bear fruit, and to do this, it must take a lifetime. The overall tone of the poem is so contradictory and chaotic that it constitutes a polyphonic structure full of tension. In life, the poet's pursuit of ideals is a failure, but his poetry creation is more mature.

This poem is a typical example of Dai Wangshu's modernist poetry. It rebelled against the external pursuit of musical beauty represented by Rain Lane, and paid attention to the internal emotional rhythm of poetry. Nor does it care about the architectural beauty and painting beauty of poetry, but tries to construct the symbolic world of poetry. As mentioned above, golden shells, peach pearls and dream flowers are symbolic, symbolizing the three levels and stages of life ideals.

In addition, this poem successfully depicts a modern dream seeker who trudges, pursues, questions and laughs at himself. His image orientation and the difficult living environment in which his image lives are symbolic. It is this symbolism that enriches and deepens the modern aesthetic connotation of poetry, and it also has the distinct charm of China's classical poetry.

Words and images in China's classical literature are widely used in the poems, such as golden shells, peaches and pearls, blue sea, nine-year icebergs, nine-year dry sea, the sound of clouds and rain in the sky, the sound of sea waves and so on. In this way, poetry has achieved the unity of Chinese and western poetry art.