Zhu Ziqing's prose poem "Hurry" was written on March 28, 1922. It was the ebb of the May Fourth Movement, and reality kept disappointing the author. However, the poet was not willing to sink in the hesitation, and he pursued persistently from the standpoint of "neutralism". He believes: "Various processes in life have their own independent meaning and value - every moment has the meaning and value of every moment! Every moment has its own appropriate position in the duration of time." (Zhu Ziqing's "To Yu Pingbo") "Letter" November 7, 2022) Therefore, he must "step on the soil step by step and lay deep footprints" (Zhu Ziqing's "Destruction") in order to obtain "the satisfaction of the paragraph." The whole poem reveals the poet's inner complaint of injustice in a touch of sadness, which also reflects the common mood of intellectual youth during the ebb of the "May Fourth Movement".
"Hurry" is the poet's inspired work. The spring scene in front of him suddenly aroused his emotions, and the poet expressed it with the help of imagination. Imagination "makes unknown things take shape and appear, and the poet's pen makes their images complete, giving the ethereal nothing a place to live in and a name to call it." (Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream") The poet makes the ethereal nothing Time, an abstract concept, is expressed through phenomena, and the poet follows the clues of his emotions to select and capture the vivid image. The poet's emotions show undulating waves as time goes by, from invisible to tangible, from looming to clear, a set of constantly changing pictures.
"The swallows have gone, but they will come again; the willows have withered, but they will bloom again; the peach blossoms have faded, but they will bloom again." The poet outlines a light picture with a few strokes. The author does not describe the actual feeling of the spring scene, but brings the readers into the picture, accepts the infection of emotions, and at the same time makes visual hints: the prosperity and decline of nature shown in this picture are traces of the passage of time, from which the poet Trace the whereabouts of your own life. But "my" days are "gone forever", invisible and intangible. Was it "stolen" or "escaped"? The signs of natural metabolism contrast with his invisible days, revealing the poet's feeling of loss in a series of questions.
“Like a drop of water in the ocean, my days are dripping in the flow of time.” Comparing my more than 8,000 days to a “drop of water” is a novel metaphor, an extreme exaggeration, and a metaphor for the ocean. Compared with the vastness of the flow of time, it highlights the "no sound, no shadow" characteristics of my own life. In fact, there are traces of my own life here, and a drop of water is its embodiment. When water drops in the sea, it has its slight sound. The poet tries his best to feel it visually and aurally, searching for the past days. But more than eight thousand days "slipped away" quietly. The ruthlessness of time and the brevity of life made the poet "weeping" and "crying".
How "hurried" is time? The poet did not make abstract discussions. He expressed his feelings and latent consciousness through images, "penetrating the familiar surface and looking for the "fresh things" where no one has been before. (Zhu Ziqing's "Poetry and Feelings") Therefore, the ethereal time is visualized, and the poet's "unique secret" is revealed in the accustomed life pictures
"In the morning, two or three directions shot into the hut. The slanting sun. The sun moves gently and quietly. "The sun is personified. He steps forward like a young girl, quietly walking past the poet, following the sun. The "movement" also "followed the rotation in a daze." Then, the poet uses a series of parallel sentences to show the flow of time. Eating, washing hands, and meditating are details of people's daily lives, but the poet keenly sees the flow of time. When he tried to keep it, it "stepped over" nimbly, "flyed" lightly, "slip away" quietly, and "flashed" quickly, and the pace of time became faster and faster. The poet uses lively words to describe that the image of time is constantly changing, giving people a sense of living life. We hear the light and lively footsteps of time, and also hear the trembling of the poet's heart.
In the rush of time, the poet wanders, ponders and pursues stubbornly.
The structure of "Hurry" is also very simple. The eleven questions are clues to the ups and downs of emotions. Questions are asked without answering, and they float by, which not only shows the smoothness of the work, but also the jumping nature of the poem's mood, allowing the image to unfold quickly. In order to show the jumping nature of emotions, general poems are often different from the general syntactic structure of language and omit some sentence components regardless of grammatical restrictions. This is not the case with prose poetry. It basically uses prose sentence patterns, and the author's emotional jumps are generally not as wide as free poetry. But it is also different from prose. There are gaps between sentences and paragraphs, which are connected by the author's thoughts. The questions in "Hurry" are asked but not answered, and the answers are implicit. This can not only inspire the readers' imagination, arouse deep thinking, and show its implicit beauty, but also the rapid flow of the collaborator's emotions, showing the poetic mood. The rhythm is beautiful.
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