Dreams and poems
It's all a common experience
Are all ordinary images
Fall into a dream by accident
How many novel tricks have you changed?
Are normal emotions.
It's all common language.
Met a poet by chance.
How many novels and poems have changed?
You don't know the power of wine until you are drunk.
Love is the only way to know-
You can't be my poem.
Just like I can't dream about you.
Only by thinking about it every day can you dream at night, and poets always think that they see farther than others, so many novel poems have changed. Dreams and poems are relatively independent concepts, and perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, they are not related. In the author's eyes, poetry and dreams are interlinked: I make my poetry and you dream. Only when you are involved can you feel the fun. Poetry and dreams can refer to each other, but they cannot replace each other.
Dreams and Poetry is divided into three sections, all of which use rhyme. The first section describes the magical "changeable" ability of dreams, which can transform many "ordinary" "experiences" and "images" at will, thus producing various magical dreams. Compared with the first section, the second section describes the poet as if he has the magical ability to dream, which can "transform" many ordinary emotions and words into wonderful poems. After reading this poem, the author thinks of what A Qing and Ye Xie said: "Everyone can say that it is safe in the poet's words; Everyone can describe what can be levied, and in the poet's description! There must be unspeakable truth, unspeakable things meet the table of tacit images, and truth and things are all brilliant in the former. " (Ye Xie's "The Original Poetry") Therefore, the poet's work is like a dream, with a natural fantasy color. Only in this way can we turn decay into magic and tell the truth and things that ordinary people and ordinary words can't tell.
The third paragraph of the poem is the most wonderful, which not only deepens and summarizes the above meaning vividly, but also proves the poet's fantastic and magical language ability with wonderful poems: "Only when you are drunk can you know the strength of wine/love can you know the weight", which can be read in contrast to the old sentence "Teenagers don't know the taste of sorrow/are forced to say sorrow for adding new words". All the experiences in the world, only the insider knows the taste, and it is really like a duck to water. In the "preface" of this poem, Mr. Yi Zhi said: "This is my" poetic empiricism "to oppose some poetic phenomena that do not respect experience and abuse language. As we all know, Mr. Yoshino was once a disciple of American pragmatism philosopher Dewey, and pragmatism is inextricably linked with British empiricism. As "poetic empiricism", this poem has the flavor of "meta-poetry" which is popular today. The so-called "meta-poetry" is a poem about poetry, which is similar to China's ancient "poetics". This poem discusses the relationship between dreams and poems. Dreams and poems are metaphors, which obviously involve the essence of poetry, so it is a poem about poetry. At the same time, it can be seen from this poem that the banner of "personalized writing" and "personal experience" that has been flying high in China poetry circles since the 1990s is nothing new. Yi Jun has already "inscribed poems on it": "You can't be my poem/just as I can't be your dream".