Reflections on reading.
Ju Hee Song
Half an acre of square pond opened, and the sky was overcast.
How can the canal be so clear? Because there is inexhaustible living water for it.
Translation:
Half an acre of square pond is displayed like a mirror, in which the brilliance of the sky and the shadow of floating clouds move together. Why is the water in that square pond so clear? It is because there is an inexhaustible source to continuously transport living water for it.
Appreciate:
This is a famous poem that takes scenery as a metaphor. The whole poem takes Fangtang as a metaphor, vividly expressing a subtle and unspeakable reading feeling. The pond is not a pool of stagnant water, but often full of living water, so it is as clear as a mirror, reflecting the sky and clouds. This situation is quite similar when the same person gets through the problem, gains new knowledge and gains a lot of benefits in reading, and raises awareness.
The aura, clear thinking, fresh and lively spirit and self-satisfaction of this poem are the author's personal reading feelings as a university scholar. Although this feeling expressed in the poem is only for reading, it has profound implications and rich connotations, which can be widely understood. In particular, the phrase "ask how clear the canal is, and there is flowing water from the source" means that the clarity of water is due to the continuous injection of flowing water from the source, which means that if people want to be clear-headed, they must study hard and constantly supplement new knowledge. Therefore, people often use it as a metaphor to constantly learn new knowledge in order to reach a new realm. People also use these two poems to praise a person's achievements in study or art, which has its deep roots. Readers can also get inspiration from this poem. Only when their thoughts are always active, open-minded, broad-minded, receptive to different ideas and fresh knowledge, and inclusive, can they keep thinking and keep new water flowing out. These two poems are condensed into a common idiom "the source of living water", which is used to describe the source and motive force of the development of things.
This is an artistic and philosophical poem, which uses symbolic means to describe the inner feelings of constantly learning new knowledge and reaching a new realm into a tangible concrete image, so that readers can understand the mystery themselves.