1. Daily poetry content

The poem "In Memory of Me" not only reflects a father's love, but also reflects the helplessness of an era. Integrating lyricism and narrative. As a hazy poem, there are no obscure words in the whole poem, but it gives people a hazy feeling. It does not directly express the sorrow and sadness of mourning the father, but downplays the emotions and penetrates the emotions the poet wants to express from the details and trivial matters of daily life.

There are three lines in the whole poem. The first section uses the method of reminiscence. It is not a direct expression of nostalgia for my father. Instead, he associates his father's "wine glass", "forgotten letter", "old leather shoes", "shaving razor", "mirror" and other ordinary daily objects with his father's actions during his lifetime, triggering the son's emotions towards his father. During his lifetime, his father "smoked in the mirror/you sat there every morning and felt puzzled" and "every time you got angry, you were actually scolding yourself." These were his habits and daily life matters during his lifetime. In the second section, the writer continues to reminisce in depth, writing "My father and I", describing in detail the details of how my father was very strict with "me", which caused "me" to have nightmares. "Push me out the door as if/the punishment is waiting on the corner of the street/you deliberately not paying attention to me deliberately not paying attention to the poem left on/the coffee table." My father's severe punishment made "I" feel that "I am probably that one" Broken iron ashtray, I was brutally burned by you again and again.” Even “I” had such a nightmare: “You made me run naked among the crowd, and fell from the roof into the sea.” The father in the poem is not a great one. The character is not a model worthy of praise, he is just an ordinary person, he is smart but incompetent, he strictly demands his son and strictly abides by his own conduct. The third section is about myself. There is always a distance between what people want and reality, and they can never be completely matched. Fate always plays tricks on people. "If I want to become a good student from the next day/The alarm clock will definitely stop beating at midnight/I will be a worker who earns money/Who knows one day, I will be called to conduct singing again/I want to be a good husband , but the red sausages are always sold out.” Life was awkward for me, and many things were unsatisfactory, so I sighed, “I don’t know why this world/I always have trouble getting through it.” This "childlike" expression, almost mocking tone, contains anger. Adult language that is "a little childish", a little angry, a little playful, full of youthful atmosphere, a little coquettish, a little sharp, this is a unique state when facing the world. It's just that Wang Xiaolong hides this understanding of the texture of language deep in life beyond gestures. The performance of "I" is always unsatisfactory. "I" is incompatible with reality. There is too far distance between ideal and reality. "I" cannot become the role that my father expects. Maybe it was due to the current situation, "I would rather be a bastard/so I want to make peace with everything." Only by becoming a bastard can one reconcile with everything. This shows what the society was like at that time! But the father "suddenly turned around and left." This may be the father's denial of his son's thoughts. In fact, the son cannot do it, just like the father, just like "I am you" in the poem. "I am you" appears at the end of the first and second stanzas of the poem, becoming the connection point of the whole poem, echoing back and forth, advancing the development of the whole poem, and deepening the theme.

2. Superb language art

Throughout the whole poem, the language of the whole poem is simple, using bits and pieces of daily life, but it has a hazy and obscure feeling. It is obviously carefully crafted by the poet, and it naturally shows high artistic standards. "Old leather shoes", "dried bottom of the bed", "broken iron ashtray", "you made me run naked in the crowd", "you threw me/from the roof into the sea", "palm", although these images are very common , used in the artistic conception of the poem, reflects the brilliance of the poet's wisdom. Ordinary words are given different meanings. This poem also uses rhyming techniques. For example, in the first stanza, "That pair of old leather shoes is still parked at the dry bottom of the bed", "I looked up and saw you", "You sit there every morning", "Every time you get angry, you are actually scolding yourself", The "Di", "You", "Li" and "Ji" in "I am you" all rhyme with "i". It adds a bright color of language to the gloomy contextual tone, making the writing smooth and smooth to read, with a strong sense of music. In addition, there are many freely combined words in this poem, and many verses break the normal word order.

For example, "The razor rusted a few of your beards" and "After flicking the cigarette ashes a few times, I thought/I am probably that broken tin vat." From these language that transcends conventional patterns, the author expresses his feelings towards his father. Indescribable emotions are revealed.

Various rhetorical techniques are also used in the poem. The use of metaphor, personification, and symbolism makes this article have higher artistic characteristics. The anthropomorphic poem "That pair of old leather shoes is still parked at the bottom of the dry bed/thinking hard" gives the old leather shoes a human spirituality. It is a thoughtful object, thinking about the past. , a feeling of sadness arises spontaneously. "I'm probably that broken iron ashtray that you brutally burned again and again." The metaphor shows the severe punishment his father imposed on himself. "Now you are hitting me on the back of the head with your disgusted eyes", "It rains at noon when the sun shines", etc. There are profound thoughts behind these colloquial and joking sentences.

3. Unique narrative perspective

The poem adopts the first-person narrative perspective. In the poem, the word "I" appears 17 times and the word "you" appears 24 times. The poet's father seems not to have left, but in front of the poet's eyes, the poet is communicating with his father face to face. In this way, the reader's sense of distance from the poem is reduced, and the reader has a profound and real sense of the poem's artistic conception. At the same time, 17 places of the word "I" and 24 places of the word "you" are distributed in various chapters and tribes of the whole poem, making the whole poem tightly structured. When reading, it is loopy and responsive, with layers of depth and true feelings revealed.

4. Real thoughts and emotions

This poem mainly expresses the author’s deep nostalgia for his father. At the same time, it also reveals the ignorance and dark status quo of an era. Every sentence in the poem is full of the poet's emotions. "I looked up and saw you/smoking in the mirror." My father was a mirror of the society at that time and a microcosm of a generation. Every era has its expressions and secrets. "You are very smart/so incompetent." The contradictory poems make us strongly feel the darkness and lack of common sense in the society at that time. Finally, "In short, it is normal for it to rain at noon when the sun is out. Look at the raindrops shining brightly in the sun, harmonious like a pair of wandering children." It contains a profound philosophy of life. Things in the world cannot be perfect, and there will always be something wrong. Flaws exist, and the important thing is not to join the crowd and stick to your own conduct. There is no need to care too much about things that have passed away.

Today, in a society full of "outstanding writers" and "famous artists", Wang Xiaolong has lost the crown of poetry. The once famous poems have almost disappeared from the sight of ordinary readers, only for Known to a few. Beautiful flowers usually bloom in corners that no one knows about. Although Wang Xiaolong's "In Memory of Me" is far less famous than the poems of Li Bai, Xu Zhimo and others, if you read it carefully, it is a shocking and immortal masterpiece!