At the End of Every Poem, Mother
At the end of every poem, mother sighs
Smoke drifts vertically into
The over populated Heaven
& the sky is filled with ominous signs
Beware!
Be elegant
In the game as violent
As what devoured the past
At the end of every poem, mother cries
The disease has widely spread
Her children are being fed on
The modern malaise
Some never saw a bigger sky
Than the obverse side of the coin
Or a loveless girl’s white behind
The night can be murderous
Senseless words choking her throat
Death!
Compromise!
The young has lost the right
to choose!
At the end of every poem, mother smiles
Once a boy, always a boy!
There is no use in stopping him
From fighting for the worthless prize
Maybe her daughter is somewhat
Wiser, slowly turning
Her gaze from the cesspool
With sugar glaze & content
To open her womb for another
Countryless child
::fall 2005
知凡 发表评论于
ZZ: "a poem is not scientific data....it is transparent, like air....air is invisible, colorless, we are living because of something we cann't even see!!!!"(完全赞同!!!)
"the infinity of language," to me, means the infinite ways of expressions....
对我来说,思考是将很多感觉感受联系起来去了解与理解,没有绝对的“答案”;而对于艺术更是如此,没有绝对的“meaning”,我们感受享受艺术。。。我喜欢艺术,也因为艺术常常无关“JUDGE”。。。于是我试着去了解理解:“Art, it has been said, is beauty, and a thing of beauty is a joy for ever. It needs no meaning; for meaning has nothing do with art.”
when jung said that, he means something else, not the "meaningless", i think he does not like people use Conciousness to Manipulate things, but prefer the natural flow from uncounciouness, which we sometimes think is "heart" . . :)
影云 发表评论于
the infinity of language," to me, means the infinite ways of expressions....
yes, that's true.basically i agree with this . . .
zz: which one is first? language or thought??
yy: what is language then? if it's narrowed down the symbols that we are using right now, i will say thought . . . language is only one of the medias that carry out thoughts.... many thoughts even ineffible . . .
LTG 发表评论于
sort like what Jung said, "art is meaningless"....
well, if it's all related ... :)
"the infinity of language," to me, means the infinite ways of expressions....
like human thoughts....
which one is first? language or thought??
影云 发表评论于
Yes, here Mother is a symbol, not the biological one. Indeed when I said “Mother” stood for love, it was not accurate - - - “Mother” can be something universal. “she” can even be History herself - - - she is the ceaseless fountain of life, or love . . .
The infinity of language does not mean unrelated - - - anything can be related to each other; the “clustering” is inside, even invisible
LTG 发表评论于
yy,
your close reading seems to have deepened the content....thank you!!!!
honestly, i was not sure about the connection between "the poem" and Mother...
but Mother certainly means more than giving birth to a baby.... Mother could be the Night, the world, the universe....
a poem is as mysterious as Mother giving birth --- the result of Love....thus, what is Love?
you mentioned the internal rhyme in the poem, which is a key to the msicality of modern poetry...i.e., disease-malaise-obverse-loveless, prize-gaze-glaze, etc..
your keen sense of reading is very impressive!!!
zf, thanks for your supplement!!! you are right on the infinity of language!!!
a poem is not scientific data....it is transparent, like air....air is invisible, colorless, we are living because of something we cann't even see!!!!
“nothing proving or sick or partial. Nothing false,nothing difficult or easy or small or colossal. Nothing ordinary or extraordinary,nothing emptied or filled,real or unreal;nothing feeble and known or clumsy and guessed. Everywhere tints childrening,innocent spontaneaous,true.”
这首诗歌我喜欢的地方是诗人诗歌里的深沉内在很顺应自然,在不知不觉中诗人表达的他对世界的感知和思考展现了一扇微妙之门开后的某种“WISER”的“答案”,但诗人的语气不是绝对的断定,给读者空间(作舟的诗一直给读者想像与创造的空间)。“Maybe……”,似乎带有某种不确定,但是疑问中又具答案(“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question”)。。。
这首诗让我感觉到母亲对世界对生命的最自然感受,用母亲的感受来表现社会生活环境,又用母亲的感受来感受内在生命在社会生活环境下的苦难。。。诗人的诗歌给我感觉最深的是他的感知,我读诗时的享受是去碰触那些感知。最后母亲的微笑,我以为是母亲微笑生命回归了其本来的天性,比如男孩子为了某种荣誉展现其生命本质,而女孩子回归到女性的天性:爱。生命的秘密是顺应,顺应灵魂深处的一种驱策,灵魂深处的那种驱策驱动的也是LIFE的本身。。。“Once a boy, always a boy!”母亲会微笑,似乎很难阻止男孩去fighting for the worthless prize,或许这是男孩的天性。。。这首诗歌里始终让我感受到母亲一样的爱,因为有母爱,男孩在展现他的生命为了某种worthless prize的同时,或许又能保持他的生命实在,所以母亲微笑女儿回归到爱的天性,给人希望的感觉。生命回复到其生命的深沉实在,是最人性的,男人与女人唇齿相依。。。杨继有句诗我印象很深,“而神,都把脑袋塞入不男不女的裤裆/为表演痛苦、或偷偷窥测/那黑暗中万物存在的阴险目的”。。。我觉得世界的希望在于生命能回归到其生命的深沉实在。。。如果这个世界每个人都懂得爱,这个世界会美好一些。。。这首诗里母亲代表了爱。。。(还不怎么成熟的个人己见。。。)
At the end of every poem, mother cries
The disease has widely spread
Her children are being fed on
The modern malaise
Some never saw a bigger sky
Than the obverse side of the coin
Or a loveless girl’s white behind
在语言上,它也打破了“At the end of every poem, mother ”的句法,使得诗歌
的形式更多样化,也让诗歌内在的“情绪”更好发挥。但,这里,我们听到母亲的
哽咽,她被这个世界里没有意味的文字话语,也就是她的孩子所生活在一个精神的
土地贫瘠里,物物质主义为上世界的悲哀。有良知的人们的抗争艰巨,年轻人已随
波逐流,寻求着“众乐乐”的安全感。生命的激情消失,人性在这块土地上泯灭。
At the end of every poem, mother smiles
Once a boy, always a boy!
There is no use in stopping him
From fighting for the worthless prize
Maybe her daughter is somewhat
Wiser, slowly turning
Her gaze from the cesspool
With sugar glaze & content
To open her womb for another
Countryless child