Sterling (United States)
My love is a flame hidden deep underwater.
-My love is happy and kind.
My lover is not easy to find.
Like a flame under water.
Fingers of the wind
Meet her finger
Sent a faint
Salute quickly.
My love is happy.
And kindness
But this is not easy.
Meet,
Like a flame under water.
Not easy to meet.
(translated by Zhao Yiheng)
Lyrics is a poem that praises lovers with poetic images.
Pound said in the Review that images are a synthesis of rationality and emotion presented in an instant. In addition, it is this complex that gives people a sense of transcendence or liberation, a sense of freedom that is not limited by time and space, and a feeling that we suddenly grow up and mature in front of great works of art.
Lyric songs love people in the image of underwater flame, which is a strong expression of feelings and a concentrated expression of reason. This image is not only the yearning for lovers, but also the free expression of the poet's personality. Wan Li in heaven, unrestrained, unrestrained, incisively and vividly expressed the poet's love for his lover. Really can achieve the feeling of transcendence or liberation. The love expressed in this image is not limited by time, reaching an eternal and endless length, and is not limited by space, reaching a supreme and infinite height. Faced with such image art, we will certainly gain a sense of maturity as human beings through our own efforts.
The poem says that my lover is happy, kind and perfect, and of course it is not easy to find, "like a flame under water." It is impossible to go down to the bottom to find the flame. Vividly describing having such a lover is really valuable. But the rationality and feelings contained in this image are by no means limited to this, nor is it limited to "not easy". It also shows the personality of lovers, gentle as water, active as fire, deep as water and hot as fire. This reminds us that such lovers must be pure and simple, innocent and lively, gentle and considerate, and warm. At the same time, this image also shows a morphological impression. This hard-to-find lover has skin as white as water, blood as exultation as fire, heart as transparent as water and love as fire. Living with such a lover is bound to be intoxicated with beauty and joy.
However, happiness often depends on pain, and beauty often depends on ugliness. Life is full of contradictions, and people themselves are also the concentrated body of contradictions. No matter lovers or lovers, they are inseparable from complex contradictions. Love, like the image of underwater flame, is a collection of contradictions. As we all know, water and fire are a pair of contradictions, and they are also a pair of contradictions in China's Five Elements Theory. Pound regards this pair of contradictory images as the image art of praising lovers, which is not only a novel metaphor or grotesque symbol, but also contains a complicated contradictory state of reason and emotion.
The lyrics of this poem focus on expressing artistic images. The text is concise, the image is prominent, and the image itself forms rhythm and is expressive.