Surrealist poetry is mostly obscure and difficult to understand, which is inseparable from the poet's creative idea. Surrealism is a literary genre that emerged in France in the 1920s, and its influence penetrated into multiple fields such as literature, painting, film, and sculpture. Surrealism was influenced by Freud's psychoanalytic theory, focusing on the representation of dreams, intuition and subconsciousness. According to Freud's theory, dreams are a way of venting people's subconscious, and through the exploration of dreams and subconscious, another kind of reality can be grasped. Surrealist poets express their persistent pursuit of truth through creation, and Eluard is no exception. Here try to analyze two of his poems.
Sharon In
imaginable visions / sun / lemon / love with soft acacia is expressed in a way that is clear and crystal / glittering glass / patience / with transparent vase sun, lemon and soft acacia / fragile, fragile / in In the heart of the glass is / spherical gold / rolling gold
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living in peaceful villages / where the road is hard and long / leading to a place of blood and tears / we are still pure.
The night is always hot and quiet / We guard our lover / This precious loyalty / runs through it all: the hope of life.
The poem is divided into three parts, the irregular format makes the text have a sense of rhythm and rhythm.
The first sentence of the poem, conceivable fantasy, expresses the consistent theme of surrealist poetry, that is, fantasy. The beginning of the poem sets a tone for the whole poem, that is, a sense of erratic uncertainty, like floating clouds in the sky, and this feeling also covers the whole poem. Next, the poet wrote about the love of the sun, lemons, and acacias. Love is the object of repeated singing in Eluya's poetry, and the pursuit of love has also become a ray of sunshine in Eluya's poetry. Here, the sun, lemon, golden acacia all belong to yellow, and yellow is a bright and warm color. In these three bright images, the sun represents hot and eternal, lemon is a kind of beauty and freshness, and the flower language of acacia is fleeting happiness, and these are the elements of love. The eternity of the sun and the perishability of the acacia constitute a pair of paradoxes, which is also the paradox of love.
In the second part, the poet talks about the expression of love, which is clear and crystal clear. The author chooses the image of glass and vase to convey the pure and fragile quality of love vividly. In the second sentence, the flickering glass is reminiscent of the dazzling sunlight shining into the house through the clear glass. And the temperature of sunlight is left on the glass. Next, there is a strange metaphor, the vase is decorated with patience, the vase is placed in a fixed position, and the next thing the vase has to do is wait, wait patiently, wait for someone to find it and move it again. This is just like people waiting for the arrival of love and waiting for the other half to appear. This also reflects the passiveness of the poet in love, the image of glass is framed, the image of vase is in a fixed position, all they can do is wait and accept.
In the third part, the imagery that appeared earlier converges and blends together. First of all, this part continues the above, and points out the fragility and fragility of love. The sun, lemon, and soft acacia actually symbolize all beautiful things, but these beauty and brightness are fleeting, and it is precisely because they are fleeting that they are precious. It's amazing to read this. In the end, the author left a bright tail to the poem, which is why I like Eluya, always giving people hope. The last few sentences "in the heart of the glass contains / spherical gold / rolling gold", the glass appears as an image, mostly in cool tones, but in the surrealist poet's pen, the glass is magically endowed with another kind of image , The glass not only has a bright and clean exterior, but also a hot heart. This also confirms the wonder and grotesqueness of surrealist imagination. And here the external stillness of the glass is in contrast to the internal movement.
In addition, in the whole poem, nouns appear in large numbers, and images are superimposed on each other. The effect is that the author intends to distance himself from the reader, and the reader needs to touch the author's heart through the image and feel the author's sincere emotions hidden behind the words. . Eluard once said that a poet's responsibility is to inspire others, not to trigger his own. The poet did it, through a series of images, aroused readers' association and thinking, such as from glass and vases to the beauty and fragility of love, from the sun and acacia to the eternity and evanescence of love, these are all great essays on love.
The whole poem is divided into two parts, a total of 8 sentences, the upper and lower are 4 sentences, the form is relatively neat.
The beginning of the sentence, living in a peaceful village reflects the poet's yearning for a peaceful life. There is not much hustle and bustle in the peaceful village, and the poet can enjoy life freely. The yearning for freedom is another important theme in Eluard's poetry. free. It can be personal freedom or national freedom. During World War II, de Gaulle personally recited Eluard's works on the French radio station in London, and ordered his poems to be dropped on the French enemy-occupied areas. Eluard's poems about freedom brought warmth and hope to those who suffered from war, and boosted morale.
The second line of the poem writes that the road to freedom is difficult and long, and the pursuit of freedom is not easy. And this road leads to the battlefield, a place full of blood and tears, but even so, we still have to keep our hearts pure, here we use "we", it is the poet and the soldiers standing side by side, without any distance, this That's what makes this poem so moving.
In the second part of the poem, at the beginning, the poet takes readers back to the hot and quiet night before the war, or it can be understood as a kind of longing for a better life after the war. In quiet nights, we guard our lover. In just two sentences, the poet paints a picture of tranquility and happiness for the readers, which makes people yearn for. Then, the poet rewinds time to the present and praises the warriors for their precious loyalty. The poet once again boosted morale at the end, asking people to always be full of hope in life, even in the field of battle and in adversity. This is also the belief of the poet.
Eluya is a singer of love and freedom. His poems are full of yearning for love, freedom and hope. Among the surrealist poets of the 20th century, Eluard is a beautiful accident.
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