摘要:In Wordsworth’s The Daffodils, the fluttering and dancing daffodils disclose the inner world of Wordsworth. His heart is still adhering to the secular world. In Wang Wei’s Magnolia Slope, the blooming flowers in the deep valley disclose the inner world of Wang Wei thoroughly.
Ming. In the famous novel “Story of the Stone”, the arrogant chrysanthemum showed out thoroughly the loneliness of Lin Daiyu.
“At corner some plum trees grow / Alone against cold white blossoms blow”, this is from Wang Anshi’s Plum Blossom. At that time, the poet adhered to the new law and
constitutional reform perseveringly. The plum was the symbol of the poet himself, whose character was honest and with inflexible integrity. Thus, the plum interpreted the characteristic of the poet exhaustively.
However, magnolia is different from the plum or the chrysanthemum. It blooms in unfrequented valley; its beauty is hardly noticed by the people. But she still flourishes quietly. The portrayal of the magnolia flowers is just the portrayal of the poet himself. Wang Wei was famous when he was only ten years old. In his twenties, he ranked the first in the highest imperial examination. Generally speaking, his political life was smooth. During his whole life, he was always keeping his own integrity with heart as calm as a still water.
The poet’s portrayal to the quality of the magnolia flower is also the true portrayal of the poet himself, which grow in the deep valley, a place without any pursuit of fame and wealth, where one can really live a simple and quiet life without the secular disturbances, where one can really find the essence of life, seek a complete harmony with the nature. Such kind of pursuit goes against that of William Wordsworth. Magnolia symbolizes the serenity after the dissipation of all the prosperities.
3.2 Their Poetry Brimming With the Buddhist Mood
Wang Wei took up the practice of Buddhism late in life, so his poetry is informed by the Chinese worldview generally, Buddhist practice and philosophy particularly. Most of Wang Wei’s poetry is a complex mix of traditional Chinese references as well as allusions to Buddhist meditation practice. Magnolia Slope is one of them.
In Wordsworth’s The Daffodils, the poet expresses emotions by means of daffodils, the joy and sorrow of the flowers is that of the poet. Being fed up with the secular disturbances, he seeks a life of recluse. His vivid description to the joyful daffodils shows his will to remain with the nature, to get rid of the reality, and to retreat into a world with pleasures only. Such pursuit of the spiritual realm is just like that of Chan Buddhism, all is emptiness. But this kind of state is hard to be achieved, because human being’s consciousness prohibits.
3.2.1 Shallowly Displayed in Wordsworth’s The Daffodils
Wordsworth was seeking the harmony between men and nature as well as the joy in nature by indulging himself in the nature. But did he really get the joy from nature?
Firstly, the great depression of the poet was emerging in the lines of the poem. Because at the beginning of the poem, poet revealed the loneliness and melancholy unconsciously, “I wandered lonely as a cloud / that floats on high o’er high vales and hills”. Thus, a host of golden daffodils dancing in the breeze lighted up the emotion of the poet. “A poet could not but be gay / in such a jocund company”, it seemed that the daffodils were endowed with the carriage of human beings.
Although the poet was exhausted under the waves of French Revolution and he had already decided to live in seclusion, he did not really abandon himself from the struggles between human beings. Therefore, the daffodils from nature were also engraved with th
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