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.
e hue of human’s inner struggles. In the poet’s eye, the daffodils could not escape from the struggles, either. Because they had to fight against the waves, “The waves beside them danced / but they out-did the sparkling waves in glee”.
Beside the thought of pursuing fame entangled in his mind, depression occupied reader’s field of vision. He had devoted himself into the French Revolution, as did most of the enthusiastic young men of the time, struggling for the realization of democracy in England. But in the end, his former enthusiasm was extinguished by the failure of French Revolution.
Experiencing the struggle in the inner world, he became more and more depressed. The mood of the poet was unfolded unconsciously in the poem, “For oft, when on my couch I lie, in vacant or in pensive mood. They flashed upon that inward eye, which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils”. At this moment, except daffodils, this jocund company could bring him the joy for a while, no one can do that.
In the Chinese version of The Daffodils, Guo Moruo once had translated “the bliss of solitude” into “the bliss of meditation”. His translation can quite express the poet’s will to seek the tranquility from nature. But such kind of state does not really belong to Wordsworth, who did not totally abandon the secular things. He might only get the joy from the daffodils for a moment, “And then my heart with pleasure fills / and dances with the daffodils”. The real Buddhist Mood may be found in Wang Wei’s poem.
The daffodils can bring the poet the joy for a while, but the poet’s inner world is as unpeaceful as the dancing daffodils in breeze. Therefore, he can not really get the joy from nature or escape from the reality. His heart is still adhering to the earthly struggles, so he can only find the pleasure from the dancing daffodils for a moment. However, he may never seek the harmony with nature. This means that he can never retreat into a world without struggling for fame or prestige.
Such kind of state of mind makes the poet’s conservative mind toward politics at that time directly. Meanwhile, Wordsworth lost his inspiration to compose poems gradually. His life ended in eternal regret.
3.2.2 Profoundly Displayed in Wang Wei’s Magnolia Slope
The magnolia flowers blooming on the treetops, which look like the lotus flowers very much, that is to say “Lotus blossoms adrift out across treetops”. In the poem, the lotus flower is the magnolia flower; poet chooses it to replace the magnolia flower. However, he also picks up the magnolia flower with the other purposes.
Lotus flower is the Buddhist flower, whose purity, beauty and transcendence win the admiration from Buddha. The transcendent lotus flower is exactly the symbolization of the personality of the poet himself, the symbolization of the purity of the monks’ inner world.
Reading Wang Wei’s Magnolia Slope, we may really realize the central Buddhist idea of emptiness, the transcendence of the poet’s personality. Although Thomas Gray had written the similar sentence as Wang Wei in his poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, “Full many a Flower is born to blush unseen / and waste its sweetness on the desert air”, his way of expression is similar to Wang Wei’s, but the spiritual realm he has achieved is lower than that of Wang Wei’s.
In Wang’s poem, “scattered”, “scattered”, the two wo
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