Appreciation of Poems of Ancient Town Dream

This poem has two artistic features. One is the capture of images; The second is to create an atmosphere.

If the modernists in China's poetry circles emphasize the expression of emotions by images, then this is a representative "image lyric poem". Image is a close combination of meaning and image, which is hidden in image and conveyed through image. Dream of an Ancient Town is different from western poems with complicated images, but it deliberately inherits the excellent tradition of using images in China's classical poems, and the choice of images is subordinate to the expression of will. The images are few but fine, and the meaning is deep and far away. The poet captured the blind and the watchman from all the people in the ancient town, so as to summarize the gloomy social environment and tragic fate of life and express the author's extremely painful tragic feelings. It should be said that the poet chose the special characters in that special environment as the support to express his feelings, so that readers can understand the tragic situation that once existed on the land of old China from the objective situation, which shows the poet's superb skills: in them, the pain and sorrow of several generations of lower-class workers in China are condensed, and the people of an ancient nation are entrusted with the hope and yearning to change their tragic fate.

Since image lyric poetry accomplishes its lyric mission through images, it must be different from the poet's direct expression of emotions and simple description of reality, but insists on the creation of image space. The space where this image is formed is the traditional aesthetic concept that people often use-artistic conception. The so-called artistic conception is actually the realm of image composition. Bian Zhilin once said that he likes to express "artistic conception". This poem can be said to be a good proof of his aesthetic pursuit in practice. The poet skillfully used the conduction of two voices, the blind fortune-telling gong and the night watchman bangzi, to create an atmosphere of tragic art: in the ancient town, no matter day or night, it is the same loneliness, the same cold and the same desolation. Listening to this sad voice, a feeling of emptiness and loneliness will rise in people's minds: in this barren living space, the lifestyle of ordinary people in China is so barren, closed, empty and ignorant. In the fourth quarter of the poem, the mother of a sick child is deliberately added, "It's late at night, where are you listening?" /The cat's father,/This boy is too noisy to sleep,/Always crying in his dreams,/Will you tell his fortune tomorrow? " It intensifies the tragic atmosphere of the ancient town: people have to listen to the tragic fate during the day or at night. Although people really live in reality, they can't get rid of the feeling of floating in sad dreams. At the end of the sentence, "the sound of running water under the bridge is endless", which contrasts the stagnation of life with loneliness and the lively and beautiful sound of running water, which is even more touching.