Babbling,or Begging with Silence:A Poetics in Interpreting Wild Grass
In his essay How to Write,Lu Xun depicted one of the states he experienced as that of'feeling like to write,but being unable to write,and not knowing where to start'.Just how come that Lu Xun,renowned for his sharp and incisive language characterized by the carrying of'a bit of iron ready to kill,and a needle ready to hit the mark',exhibits a'babbling'quality in Wild Grass?Drawing on the keen instincts of a poet,the contemporary poet Zhang Zao realized that this very state of'incapacity to write'was,in fact,a language crisis incurred to Lu Xun.And it was prominently reflected in the creation of Wild Grass.Zhang Zao's discovery revitalized the mode of reading Wild Grass in a way sourced in poetics.In this understanding,the poetic disposition of'babbling'in Wild Grass could be seen as a temporary change in Lu Xun's writing style.A Reappraisal,through this perspective,of the causes of the hesitance and repetitiveness in word choice,coupled with a nihilistic and decadent tendency in the content of Wild Grass,is expected to help uncover another dimension of Lu Xun's spiritual world during the creation of Wild Grass.
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