Fortune-telling in Gucheng Street _ Fortune-telling in Guwenhua Street

Appreciation of the dream of the ancient border city

Dream of an ancient town on the edge

There are two kinds of voices in town.

The same loneliness:

During the day, it was Gong, a fortune teller.

Bangzi at night.

You can't break other people's dreams,

Dream like a dream.

Blind people walking in the street,

Step by step.

He knows which stone is lower,

Which stone is tall,

How old are the girls?

Broke other people's dreams,

Dream like a dream.

The night watchman is walking in the street,

Step by step.

He knows which stone is lower,

Which stone is tall,

Which door closes the most tightly?

"Night, listen,

The cat's father,

The child is so noisy that he can't sleep.

Always crying in my dreams,

Will you tell his fortune tomorrow? "

It is late at night,

Another cold afternoon:

Knocking on the bridge,

The drummer crossed the bridge again,

The sound of running water under the bridge is constant.

Bian's poems inherited the implicit characteristics of traditional poetry, that is, attaching importance to "implication" and "endless implication"

I. Content analysis

Dream of the Ancient Town repeatedly emphasizes that the blind and the watchman "walk in the street step by step. He knows which stone is low, which stone is high and which girl is old, which shows people's barren, closed, empty, misty and numb living conditions. The poet captured the blind and the bellman from all the people in the ancient town, so as to summarize the gloomy social environment and tragic life fate. The Blind Man and the Watcher, Can't Break … and Sink show how deeply people in this ancient town are immersed in this state of life, so as to express the author's tragic feelings of extreme sadness. It shows that people have hired fortune tellers, which shows that every lower-class family in China can't get rid of the trick of fate and secretly write about people's living conditions. People are deeply confused, painful and sad in the face of fate.

Second, artistic features and artistic techniques

"This is the sound of running water under the bridge." In the closed and silent ancient town, this sentence can make people feel the "loneliness" of the ancient town. Here, we have inherited the technique of writing quietly in China's ancient poems.

"It's a fortune-telling gong during the day and a bangzi at night" highly summarizes the characteristics of "knocking on other people's dreams" like day and night, and shows the loneliness, isolation and ignorance of the ancient town people.

Three. Brief introduction of the author

Bian (19 10 ~ 2000) was born in Haimen, Jiangsu. 1929 entered the English Department of Peking University, where he was closer to English romantic poetry and French symbolism poetry, and began to write new poems. Sanqiu Cao was published in 1933, Yuzuji was published in 1935, and Hanyuanji was co-edited with Li Guangtian and He Qifang in the following year. To sort it out, his poems pay attention to syllables and pursue the agility of words, which shows the dissatisfaction and thinking of young intellectuals at that time. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time, he taught in Sichuan University and The National SouthWest Associated University successively. 1938 ~ 1939 visited the anti-Japanese democratic base areas in Yan 'an and Taihang Mountain areas, and taught at Lu Xun College of Literature and Art.. This trip prompted him to create a collection of poems, letters of condolence and reportage "772 regiment in Taihang Mountain area", praising the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians and describing the life of the troops in the anti-Japanese base areas. 1942, poetry published in ten years. 1946 to teach at Nankai University. The following year, at the invitation of the British Council, I went to Oxford for research. 1July, 949, attended the first plenary congress of China literary and art workers. 195 1 year published poetry anthology, turning a wave. 1979 published the anthology Chronicle of the Carved Insect 1930 ~ 1958. 1949 has been a professor of western languages in Peking University, 1953 has been a researcher at the Institute of Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences, and 1964 has been a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences. He has been engaged in the translation and research of works by foreign writers such as W. Shakespeare for a long time, and has translated works such as Tracing the Source of Shakespeare's Tragedy and Selected Poems in English. In addition, he also published a collection of poems, Man and Poetry: Recalling the Old and Saying the New.

Bian used Ji Ling as his pen name. She is from Lishui, Jiangsu, and 19 10 was born in Haimen, Jiangsu. 1933 graduated from English Department of Peking University, Beiping. He used to be a professor of western languages in Peking University (1949- 1952), and now he is still a researcher at the Institute of Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences (Grade II), enjoying lifelong treatment; He was a member of the first and second foreign literature review groups of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee; Vice President of China Shakespeare Research Association; He has served as a director of the Chinese Writers Association and is currently a consultant; I was a guest in Oxford, England (1947- 1949). In his early years, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression went to Yan 'an to engage in temporary teaching and joined the army at the front line in Taihang Mountain area. After returning to the southwest rear area, he worked as a lecturer, associate professor and graded professor at Kunming Branch of National Southwest Associated University, and was demobilized to work in Nankai University in Tianjin for one year. 1946. After liberation, I went to the countryside many times to live and assist in rural work.