Chapter 25: Interpretation

In the editorial office of "Poetry Magazine", everyone was discussing the manuscript of the poem in hand, when suddenly a young editor jumped up with his mobile phone and shouted, "Damn". The office was instantly silent.

"Xiao Liu, don't be surprised," Zhao Zhenkai, the editor-in-chief who came out to pick up the water, said to Liu Minghui gently: "If there is anything to say, everyone will have fun together." Liu Minghui is the young man he was shocked.

"Boss" Liu Minghui took the mobile phone and handed it to Zhao Zhenkai, and said as he walked: "Boss, you are absolutely surprised when you see it."

Zhao Zhen smiled and looked at the poem on Weibo: "Meanness is the pass of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble." Zhao Zhenkai hurriedly took the mobile phone and read it word by word. I was deeply shocked in my mind, and I always felt that this poem should be about him, or that he wrote it again.

Zhao Zhenkai, who silently returned to his office, learned everything about Yang Yunruo on the Internet. The ex-husband of the queen Ouyang Mingyue, cheating, erotomania, divorce, and the address of the entire music industry is blocked. Zhao Zhenkai is not an angry young man, nor is he a troll. Why was the place of derailment a café, who dared to be a nymphomaniac in a café, why Zhao Yinger didn't issue a condemnation at that time, why was it deleted after the press conference, and why the comments that were noisy the day before yesterday disappeared the next day. Everything, Zhao Zhenkai felt that this writing was not simple, and it seemed that there was a hand pushing all this. Combined with Yang Yunruo's "Answer", Zhao Zhenkai can even be sure that Yang Yunruo is innocent. He was a literati, and he didn't believe in the literati's pen, but he believed in the literati's feelings. It is only through such and such devastation and darkness that such and such poems can be written. After pondering for a while, Zhao Zhenkai wrote a long flat for this poem on Weibo:

The contrasting principles and imagery in the structure and organization of the poem "Answer".

First of all, the imagery used in the first stanza is discussed, such as the first line of the opening: "meanness is the pass of the mean", which itself is a very strange declarative sentence, which is obviously a metaphor, in short, "mean" is a "pass", and this "pass" is "mean", which gives the originally neutral "pass" a negative emotional color of "meanness". In fact, the change in the emotional color of the imagery is often something that needs to be paid attention to when reading the imagery, and this is no exception. From the point of view of normative language, the occurrence of two identical words, "mean" and "despicable") in such a short distance, should be avoided as much as possible. However, this phenomenon of non-standard and unrefined language has become a technique to attract the attention of readers under the premise that literary texts emphasize the effect of defamiliarization. The reader can't help but ask: why can "meanness" be a "pass"? The poet deliberately puts these two images together in order to make the reader think. According to the Modern Chinese Dictionary, "despicable" refers to an adjective noun that is very bad in language and behavior, and immoral; if it is bad in language and behavior, how can it be a "pass"? "Pass" means proof of arrival at a special place, and this place is restricted from entering and exiting, and "pass" is generally a certificate for qualified persons to enter and exit. However, if these two images are taken together, and "meanness" is the "pass", it can be concluded that the entry and exit criteria of this restricted place are based on bad behavior and immorality. It is not difficult for the reader to deduce from this that this place where "meanness" is used as a "pass" must be a miasma, black and white, and morally degenerate.

The next sentence, "Noble is the epitaph of the noble," is also closely linked to the previous sentence. "Noble" is used to describe a person with a high moral level. In this sentence, I think [Yu: "noble" is an "epitaph", and "epitaph" refers to the words placed in the tomb on the stone carving of the deceased's life deeds, which is generally the evaluation of the deceased by the deceased's friends during his lifetime. The occurrence of the word "epitaph" implies that the "noble one" is dead, and the "noble" is that he caused his death

If we read the first and second lines together, it is not difficult for readers to ponder: What is the meaning of "noble" and "despicable"? Despicable people can pass unhindered by virtue of "meanness"; on the contrary, noble people die because of their nobility, what kind of society and what kind of world is this? This obviously gives a very negative evaluation of the place where the "despicable" and the "noble" are located.

For example, in terms of the structure and organization of the verses, the two verses use the principles of contrast and metaphor. First of all, "meanness is a pass" and "nobility is an epitaph" are metaphors, and the four images are connected together by a figurative principle. On the other hand, the four images form a strong contrast when viewed from another angle. "Meanness" and "nobility" are the two extremes of words and deeds, and the contrast is obviously very strong. The "pass" and the "epitaph" are grouped, the former is an unimpeded basis, and the latter is a sign of death, which also has the implication of not being able to move forward, so there is a clear contrast between the two images, coupled with the strong contrast between the "despicable" and the "noble", so that the two lines of poetry form a metaphorical horizontal relationship, as well as a vertical relationship of contrast. Only these two sentences can already express the theme of the poem "Answer": the phenomenon of social black and white, moral degradation.

The third and fourth lines are written in the scene. The first two declarative sentences of the poem directly speak of the social phenomenon of reversal of right and wrong and unfairness, and then this pair of writing sentences appears, and the relationship between the two is obvious.

However, in order to understand the meaning of scene writing sentences, we must first understand the scene composition on the surface, and then delve into the deep meaning inside.

"Behold, in the gilded sky, / Float with the crooked reflections of the dead. The image written in two lines is a reflection in the sky. According to common sense, it is the clouds that float in the sky, and the "crooked reflection of the dead" is a metaphor for the clouds. The adjective "curved" fits perfectly with the curved shape of the clouds, and since the clouds are "reflected" and float in the sky, then the objects reflected in the sky should be on the ground. According to the original poem, the object that is reflected in the sky on the ground is the "dead." In addition, the sky is decorated with "gilding", which literally refers to the golden yellow color produced by the refraction of the setting sun at dusk. The word "plating" can be interpreted as "inlay", so "gilded sky" can be understood as the setting sun at dusk, shining on the clouds in the sky, reflecting the golden color in the clouds.

However, if you consider the two lines together, it is not difficult to see that there is a hidden meaning of death in them. The word "deceased" certainly directly points out the meaning of death, and the description of "floating" seems to present a terrifying scene in the reader's mind. In addition, "gold" or "gold" is a symbol of death in different cultures, and it is also a metal for burying the dead. On the surface, these two lines of poetry are only about the scene of clouds in the sky at sunset, but when negative words such as "gilded" and "dead" are added to the sentences, the impression of the poem on the reader changes greatly. This is obviously a deliberate arrangement by the author, in order to highlight the negative colors, so as to match the first and second lines of poetry to express the feelings of dissatisfaction with society.

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Zhao Zhenkai is a big name in the domestic literary world, although the number of his Weibo fans is not as good as that of traffic stars, but there are many of them, and he has no zombie fans, all of them are real fans. As soon as he posted the article, more people paid attention to "Answer". Zhao Zhenkai only analyzed the superficial meaning of the poem, but he couldn't stand up to many fans who were engaged in literature, and combined with Yang Yunruo's experience to dig deeper things.

"Why is Yang Yunruo's poem so negative?"

"What is Yang Yunruo always complaining about?"

"Who is the despicable in his poems?"

"What does Yang Yun want to say in the poem?"

"Why is the whole poem hazy, is it that the 'despicable' energy is too much or something".

couldn't stand the excavation and brain replenishment of the masses, and in the end, almost most people thought that Yang Yunruo was the victim, and it was Zhao Yinger who used Yang Yunruo to hype, which made Yang Yunruo's family separate, causing the entire music industry to block and boycott Yang Yunruo. A large number of people went to Zhao Yinger's Weibo to leave messages such as "fox spirit" and "get out of the entertainment industry", Zhao Yinger never dreamed that feng shui would take turns. It was Yang Yunruo two days ago, and now it's up to him so soon.

Some people also left a message on Ouyang Mingyue's Weibo, saying that Zhao Yinger framed Yang Yunruo, and defended Yang Yunruo that Yang Yunruo did not cheat. There are also people who go to the Weibo of various singers to correct Yang Yunruo's name and ask them not to ban Yang Yunruo.

Yang Yunruo's fans who fell down increased geometrically for the first time, and the fans originally fell to less than 100,000 because of the cheating nymphomaniac, among which there are still a considerable number of zombie fans, and now the fans have risen directly to nearly 400,000, which can be regarded as having some third-tier stars. However, after all, the proportion of this group of people on the Internet is not large, and it has caused a ripple on Weibo. was quickly brushed down by the crowd of onlookers.

When everyone was helping Yang Yunruo correct his name, they saw Yang Yunruo post another song "Fixing the Storm".

It was quickly interpreted by everyone:

Don't be afraid of the address blocking of the entertainment industry, for me it is a light wind and a little rain, you might as well let go of your throat and sing calmly. Lao Tzu cane and straw shoes don't scare you who drive sports cars, these are all small things, what's so terrible? You are stirring up the wind and rain here, but it just makes me feel a little cold, but I am obliquely shining on the mountain, and I am about to record the second episode of "The King of Crossover Singers". Looking back at the scene where you smeared me, return, whether it is rain or shine. To put it bluntly, I don't bird you.

If Su Daxian knew about it, I don't know if the coffin board can still be held down. As soon as the explanation came out, Yang Yunruo's Xiaowen Qing on Weibo was all the same:

"Yang Xian, don't sing and don't mix in the entertainment industry, let's write poems."

"Yang Xian, we will support you to the end."

And these, if Yang Yun didn't see it. After pretending to be forced, you have to run, this is Yang Yunruo's motto, don't you run and wait to debunk it? After getting the process sheet sent by the program team, Yang Yunruo hurriedly ran back to the hotel to pick up songs.