The subtitle of this chapter: Old poems and new poems, it is better to copy the poems of old cadres

The author declares: This translation is not Murong's original, but also found from the Internet. But here's my original.

"The publication of The Waste Land in 1922 was undoubtedly a milestone in modern Anglo-American poetry, and Eliot's most famous and influential work, expressing the spiritual disillusionment of a generation in the West, is considered to be an epoch-making work in modern Western literature. He was also awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948 for being a 'pioneer of revolutionary modern poetry'......"

"T.S. Eliot himself said that the success of "The Waste Land" was not his own work, but his two friends were very good. One is the famous American poet and representative of Imagism, Ezra Pound, who is also his teacher and friend. Not only was Pound a leader in his poetry, but before the publication of The Waste Land, he made drastic revisions to it, cutting out almost half of the original ......" (Author's note: from February 1940, Pound, the old man, broadcast twice a week from Rome to the United States on shortwave, and referred to Mussolini as his "commander-in-chief", and later became the protagonist of one of the two major treason cases in American history in 1945). ）

Eliot assessed himself as a political royalist, a religious Catholic, and a literary classicist. And he said of his other friend: a political liberal, a religious atheist, a literary genius who cannot be defined by ism. Speaking of which, readers and friends should have thought that this friend is Mr. Yuan Yanqi......"

"The Waste Land was written by Mr. Eliot during his recuperation in Europe, and he admits that he was greatly influenced by Mr. Yuan Yanqi's 1920 Taishan when he wrote The Waste Land......

"'April is a cruel month.' This opening sentence of "The Waste Land" is actually an allusion to ancient Greece: in Athens, spring is often a time of sacrifice, when people believe that the dead return to the earth. Coincidentally, the Qingming Festival, where the Chinese pay tribute to their ancestors, is also at this time. In "The Waste Land", spring is no longer a symbol of hope, but a manifestation of human distorted desires......"

From the name of Mr. Yuan Yanqi's poem, it can be seen that "Mount Tai" originally described the underworld in Chinese mythology. Traditional Chinese culture believes that there are two places in the underworld, one is the Artemisia Mountain in front of Mount Tai, and the other is the capital of Sichuan. Han "Yuefu Song Lyrics - Artemisia Song": "Whoever has land in Artemisia gathers souls without virtue and foolishness." ’。 "Later Han Shu Wuhuan Biography": 'If the Chinese die, the soul will return to Daishanye. ’。 In fact, "Mount Tai" borrows the meaning of this traditional Chinese culture......"

"The first line of the poem 'Tarzan' is 'Distant Tarzan, showing a dark figure.'" , where the 'distant' and 'gloomy' allude to the Artemisia Mountains before Mount Tai......"

"The second sentence 'a heavy foundation supports the shallow high-rise', the heavy foundation refers to the vast underground, and the shallow high-rise refers to the outward appearance of Mount Tai ......"

"The third sentence is 'Suppose one day, someone turns the world upside down'. Mr. Yuan wants to express that Qiankun is life and death......"

"The fourth sentence is 'The old tradition will be met with a crack in the earth and a landslide!' The ending sentence combined with the first three sentences has been interpreted as Mr. Yuan Yanqi's desire and determination to overthrow the feudal society of the old era and change the world, so after the poem "Mount Tai" was transmitted back to China, it was highly praised by the revolutionaries and new youth at that time, together with "Phoenix Nirvana", which was also published in 1920. But now it seems that in addition to yearning for revolution, the final sentence is to use human reason to defeat the fear of death......"

In short, Mr. Yuan uses only four simple verses to show a double imagery, and his literary talent is unmistakable. However, he has always said that the English version of the poem "Taishan" is a translation, and the Chinese version is a retranslation, but no one knows what the original poem looks like, which is also a mystery in the history of modern literature."

——Excerpt from "Death Intention in Modern Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century"

"The old tradition will inevitably suffer from the cracks and landslides!"

Our Master Yuan maintained this very "Jingtao-like" posture and did not move, and the audience was silent, even the waiters next to him held their breath and immersed themselves in the afterglow of this masterpiece.

Ms. Huang Huilan was so smoky by Yuan Yanqian's handsomeness last time that she couldn't breathe this time. At this time, there is only one poem in her heart: the spring heart is like silk, and the cage is always empty......

SORRY, MISTAKENLY. It should be: you should know that everyone has this hatred, and you can't hate to meet when you are not married.

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ”

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

“Bravo!”

She couldn't help but be the first to applaud, and everyone applauded as if they had just woken up from a dream.

Only then did Master Yuan put down his raised hands, bowed calmly and calmly to everyone, and at the same time gave himself a big thumbs up in his heart.

You know, such an outstanding symbolist modern poem didn't cost him much B-dollar.

These days, with the release of "A Song of Ice and Fire", he suddenly has tens of thousands of B coins. For a patient like him with advanced chopping disease, it is natural to randomly select a few literary works to defend himself.

The last time he saw T.S. Eliot, he smoked several modern poems, but none of them worked. So this time he is also looking for new works in this direction.

When he searched for it, he remembered a military strategist and politician who was Yunwen Yunwu, but when he searched by his name, he found that this old man was listed in the strange and rare poetry genre of "Old Cadre Body", and the price of poetry in this genre was only one-tenth of that of normal works.

Our Master Yuan couldn't help but be furious when he saw such a setting at first, which was really a great insult to the veteran cadres who had made outstanding contributions. But he thought about it, since this broken system has such a bug, it might as well be like that. So he cheerfully took a few of the brothers' poems and translated them into English.

The minister's wife couldn't help but ask curiously, "Mr. Yuan, what is the original text of this poem?" And which general wrote it? ”

"Oh, Mrs. Gu is embarrassed. I only remember that it was written by a certain general, whose name I can't remember for a while......"

In fact, the dog meat general Zhang Zongchang had not yet become the military affairs supervisor and chairman of Shandong Province at this time, and of course this poem was not published.

"But I'll be able to write it to you later......"