Gu Cheng's Poem Far and Near and Its Appreciation

As a poet who came into being at the historic moment, Gu Cheng was very "coincidentally" integrated into the historical process of the new poetry wave and became a member of it, or his poems had irreplaceable special poetic significance. The following is an appreciation of Gu Cheng's poem Far and Near, for reference only!

Original content

You,

Look back at me,

Watch the clouds later.

I think,

When you look at me from a distance,

You observe the clouds up close.

This poem is very much like a push-pull lens in photography. It uses the transformation of subjective distance between "you", "me" and "cloud" to express the habitual fear between people and the intimate relationship between man and nature.

This contrast is not without tendentiousness, which implies "I"' s desire for human nature to return to nature.

-Gu Cheng

Enjoy 1

Although there are only six short sentences in Far and Near, it contains rich connotations of historical reflection. "Far" and "near" are the concepts of physical distance, which exist objectively and have scientific measurement. However, the psychological distance of emotions is different, and "far" can become "near" and "near" can become "far". The transformation of psychological distance between "you", "me" and "cloud" in the poem reflects the estrangement and vigilance between people, and the poet's yearning and pursuit of harmonious and ideal interpersonal relationship.

The three images of "you", "me" and "cloud" in the poem all have certain symbolic significance. "You" and "I" both live in objective reality and belong to social members, while "Cloud" symbolizes beautiful and simple nature. "If you look at me, you will be far away" means that the ground is near and the heart is far, "if you look at the clouds, you will be near", and "you are close to the sky". The poet's dialectical emotional way of "man is far away from the world" has become the development way of human aesthetic ideal, that is, "from the truth of the object to the truth of the subject, from passive reflection to subjective creation."

This poem seems handy, but in fact it is ingenious, giving people the feeling that it is natural but unnatural, clever but not artificial.

Appreciation 2

The poem Far and Near is the poet's essential discovery of abnormal life. When this poem was first published, it was considered as a strange poem that was difficult to understand. According to the rigid reading mode at that time, people have become accustomed to the passive thinking mode, and this poem is really difficult to interpret. Because the distance between you and me can't be far beyond the distance between you and the cloud. But why does the poet feel that "when you look at me, it is far away, and when you look at the clouds, it is very close"? The reason is that the poet wrote about an abnormal life and a distorted interpersonal relationship. In this twisted relationship, everything is upside down. The relationship between people who should be close is alienated by the barrier of the soul, which seems so lonely and inaccessible; Because of the alienation of interpersonal relationship, man and nature have narrowed the distance and become very close. Perhaps, it is precisely because of the closeness between man and nature that man's loneliness is further manifested; Perhaps it is this loneliness that often reminds Gu Cheng of the kingdom of dreams. But Gu Cheng should know that in this world full of contradictions, the dream kingdom of heaven does not exist.