Text and pictures of "The King and the Sea".
Some people say that happiness is fleeting, but happiness is a more peaceful and lasting happiness. Nowadays, adults are very concerned about how to make their children happy, but perhaps what children need to discover is the path to happiness.
In the writings of the Austrian poet Hans Janis, children's poetry is the road to happiness. On this road, the weird side makes people richer and more complete, and the world around them is more relevant to reading and writing poetry. people are closely related. For example, in a book, every page brings you guests, in which you get to know "pirates, astronauts, monkeys, tigers, chefs, and giraffes." Another example is the sea. Its vastness will make you sigh in your heart: "Every time I go to the seaside, I will bow to the sea - because in front of such a large blue area, I am just a little one."
Janis is from Austria A well-known children's book writer and poet, he has been nominated for the International Hans Christian Andersen Award and the German Youth Literature Academy Award. In addition to his collection of children's poems "Today I Want to Slow Down", Yanish has also created many poetic story picture books and a biography picture book "Andersen's Miraculous Life" about Andersen.
In this column of the "Children and Poetry" series, the author Yan Chaohua shares and appreciates Yanish's works. Regarding "What is an excellent children's poem?", Yanish said: "Excellent children's poems can make readers feel clear and comforted; they can touch people's hearts and warm every lonely soul. An excellent children's poem It should tell about the love for people and things, be thought-provoking, and let readers feel and laugh." written by
| Yan Chaohua
The poet who said "thank you" to the sea:
Janis
The Austrian poet Hans Janis is in Said this in an interview: "On the road to pursuing happiness, everyone has a weird side. For example, I like to talk to the things around me. I will say hello to my pencil and notebook; the faucet will flow water for me, and I will say hello to the things around me. It says thank you; every time I go to the beach, I will bow to the sea - because in front of such a big blue, I am just a little person." (Translated by Liu Di). When we meet again in poetry, a word, a sentence, a life will become your wings, source and beam. At this time, in the poetic jungle, Yanish appeared. Look, he was applauding a bouquet of flowers: "Please give the applause / to a bouquet of flowers!" ("Quiet Family Concert", translated by Yao Yue) .
Those who applaud the flowers will also applaud the entire grassland, so a swarm of bees flew in the language:
To create a grassland
Author: [American] Emily Dickinson
Translation: Jiang Feng
To create a grassland, only It takes one alfalfa and one bee,
one alfalfa, one bee,
plus daydreaming.
It's enough to daydream, if
can't find bee.
Bees pollinate, seeds are everywhere, alfalfa begins to grow everywhere, your heart is a garden, and silence shines. This reminds me of a story from Janis's picture book The King and the Sea: "'Go away!' the king tried to drive a bee away from his flower. 'I am the king here!' the king shouted .'Me too.' said the bee, sucking up the nectar." (Translated by Yu Zhixiao).
"The King and the Sea", author: [O] Hans Janisz, [German] Illustrations by Wolf Ebruch, translator: Yu Zhixiao, publisher: Magic Elephant Children's Library, Publishing House : Guangxi Normal University Press, publication date: December 2016.
In nature, all things are equal and spiritual. Isn’t writing children’s poetry itself a daydream of creating a language? "Today I want to have thousands of dreams/I want to sleep without missing a beat of life." ("Today I want to have thousands of dreams" translated by Yao Yue).Listen carefully, there is Yanish's subtle breathing here, and of course, there is also the sound of angels flying:
Angels and Bees
Author: [Au] Hans Yanish
Translation: Yao Yue
They met
In me Next to the red flower in front of the open window
what would the two of them -
wings and wings
talk about?
A gust of wind
blew
gently pushing the wing-like window sash
into the house
I stood in front of the
closed window
staring at my shadow
I finally understood
The wing clan
are united
They don’t want
to be eavesdropped
What "Wing Clan"? I think they must be a huge and bright mysterious world, such as birds, butterflies, angels, and even flowers and leaves undulating in the wind and dreams. What do you look like in the eyes of the "Wing Clan"? And what did you overhear the "Wing Tribe" saying? Children's poetry is produced in this constant pursuit: "If that person likes poetry/is he a little confused/the poet said: 'I don't know'/and writes a poem." ("A little confused?" Yao Yue translation). Those wonderful conversations are as light as the wind between wings.
Internal page picture of "The King and the Sea".
In those slow times,
poetic eyes looked at the world
Maybe angels are every child who longs to fly. They walk slowly on their own path, thinking about things that no one knows, and then wear Take your own wings and fly to the place of innocence:
Today I want to take my time
Author: [O] Hans Janis
Translation: Yao Yue
Today I want to take my time
My guardian angel is small
And he should not be blamed when he is tired from flying
Today I walked slowly
step by step
He - leisurely - followed
Everyone has his own guardian angel, such as your pet or friend , relatives...but some angels are invisible to us, we can only feel their heartbeats. In this poem, this "guardian angel" does not fly in like Niels riding a goose, but follows leisurely, which allows us to clearly feel the slow pace and rhythm of "his" . "Today I Want to Slow Down" is also the name of Yanish's collection of poems.
"Today I Want to Slow Down", author: [O] Hans Janisz, [Italian] Illustrations by Linda Wolfsgruber, translator: Yao Yue, publisher: Tiantian Publishing House, Publication date: January 2017.
He slows down the language and slows down the people and things in children's poems. This may be the light and breath released by Yanish in The Secret of Time! Therefore, in the "Opening Chapter" of the collection of children's poems, Yanis wrote this:
Opening Chapter
Author: [Au] Hans Yanis
Translation: Yao Yue
What magical things would happen if life slowed down?
You will see the shape of each cloud clearly
Hear the conversation between the angel and the bee
You can walk backwards
Or stand quietly by the lake
Or even look for a special place
When you can't sleep at night
You can Count thirty-four giants
Let them guard you and fall into sleep
You will have thousands of dreams
Never miss life while you are asleep
"Slowness" is the state of mind and the secret. Children's understanding of "slowness" comes from the passage of time. , just like when they are playing games, they feel that time is flying, and when they are lonely, they feel that time is horribly "slow". Only fun can penetrate into their hearts. The poet yearns for freedom. What magical things will happen if life slows down? Think about it, you still remember the slow sloth in the cartoon "Zootopia", right? When all animals are racing against time, its behavior is so out of place, but also so elegant and calm.
Internal page picture of "When I Can't Sleep".
However, where is the miracle of slowing down? You can see and hear things that you have overlooked, such as the shape of clouds, the conversation between angels and bees, and the mysterious world of giants, so that you will not miss the wonderful life even in your sleep. This reminds me of a saying: "We are walking too fast, it is time to stop and wait for our soul." Waiting for the soul, but also waiting for words, time, all things, and body and mind. Perhaps children's poetry itself is the art of slowness. The verses gradually spread out, creating a storm in silence. If you don’t believe me, let’s take a look at this children’s poem by Yanis:
Today I want to be gentle
Author: [Au] Hans Janis
Translation: Yao Yue
Today I want to be gentle
Very light, not noisy A person who wakes up and sleeps
is very light and does not frighten the dragonflies
On the lake
Today I walked on silk, moss, and snow
You only heard it when I was by your side
Today I walked on velvet, clouds, and soft paper
You Looking for me, and I have come...
Today I want to be gentle
Very light, not to wake the sleeping people
Very light, not to frighten the dragonflies
On the lake
These poems are simple, cute, interesting, and radiating It has the luster of innocence, and everything has the possibility of equal dialogue with the poet. We can think about it. Once a poet utters a poem like "Don't let the dragonflies be frightened", it means that his heart is haunted by all things little by little until it melts. In the writing of children's poems, "slowness" is not a lazy state of mind, but a stop, quiet, and natural process, like an insect crawling from one leaf to another, quietly feeling the spread of the branches. Plant light and shadow until a children's poem will wake up in your heart:
Today I want to live in a tree
Author: [Au] Hans Janis
Translation: Yao Yue
Today I want to live in a tree
I want to reward myself with the beautiful scenery
I want to stay there humanely
It is so quiet there
Birds occasionally fly over
Tell me a white egg
Lives in the bird's nest next door
The tree firmly supports it and I
Then one day
My neighbor swayed in the wind
It was a baby bird...
Today I sat in the most beautiful green house
Today I lived in my tree
Yes, the poet wanted to himself Hide, even if you live in a tree - the most beautiful green house. There are birds there, the leaves are rippling in the wind, everything is so quiet and beautiful. Perhaps in the poet's mind, the world is too noisy, too fast, and too boring. Many people are gray, and their world is also gray. Therefore, Yanish describes the city in his heart in this poem: "My house has a headache / I want to move to the country, it has packed its luggage" ("My house has a headache, I want to move to the country"); "Yesterday My house was drunk/Standing there shaking and shouting/Singing high-pitched songs” (“Yesterday my house was drunk”; “This morning/I was woken/by a/‘a-sneeze’//my The house is shaking violently" ("My House Has a Cold", the above quotations are all translated by Yao Yue)... The feeling of the city is actually the poet's life itself. Once humans lose nature, they also lose the color in their hearts. With flowers, dreams begin to drift away...
Text and pictures of "Little House by the Sea".
A children's poem may be a sloth. Only by slowing down can we hear the heartbeat of all things. In Yanish's children's poem, Maybe we can ask ourselves this: Have we apologized for accidentally hurting a flower? Have we invited starlight to live in our hearts? Have we bowed to the earth that carries us? Bugs are coming, leaves are flying, and everything is lovely. Do we slow down and gaze here? , listen, daydream? As Yanish said in the interview: "People rush over and miss paradise." (Translated by Liu Di). The soul is paradise. We need to slow down to get along with ourselves, and at the same time slow down to get along with ourselves. Get along with others and the world. However, now the art of "slowness" and innocence seems to be disappearing from our lives little by little. This is a question worth thinking about.
Read, every book will
Hans Janis was born in Austria in 1960. He studied publishing and Germanic language and literature in Vienna in his early years. He is now a famous editor, host and printmaker of Austrian Radio. He has written many children's literature books, such as "Grandpa's Red Cheeks", "Grandma's Hat", etc., and won many awards such as the Austrian Children's Book Award and the Austrian National Children's Poetry Award.
"When I Can't Sleep", author: [Austrian] Hans Janis, [Austrian] Helga Banshi, translator: Zeng Xuan, producer: Dolphin Media, publisher: Shanghai Culture Publishing House, publication date: April 2018.
Regarding "What is an excellent children's poem?", he said: "Excellent children's poems can make readers feel clear and comforted; they can touch people's hearts and warm every lonely soul. An excellent children's poem should It tells about the love for people and things, which is thought-provoking and allows readers to feel and laugh." (Translated by Liu Di).
Sometimes, when you are in language, put two petals on your eyes, you are the flower, touch the wings with your eyes, you are the bird, you become another yourself, this is also the poetry of Yanish Bring us inspiration. Yanish likes to play all his favorite characters in children's poems. In his poems, the innocence that flies across time and space reaches us again, covering us gently. If you read Yanish's children's poems carefully, you will find that Yanish has filled some gaps in current children's poems, such as the evolution of characters, the extension of natural complexes, the examination of self-identity, and the innocence of things in our bodies and minds. Dream etc.
Every book
Author: [Au] Hans Janis
Translation: Yao Yue
Every book
will bring you guests
Pirates, astronauts, monkeys
Tigers, chefs, giraffes
Ants, butterflies, Cheetah
Elephant, dolphin, leopard
Indian, lion, crocodile
Ocean, lake, Nile river
Clouds, moss, tower
Grass, sky, strong wind
After reading ten lines
you have played all the roles
A book can What a magical thing that allows you to become everything you want to be! There are amazing wonders of life in Yanish's language, and he can always catch the fleeting tail of the things around him. Sometimes when I read Yanish's children's poems, I wonder, when we can't see the world like children, does it mean that our childhood and imagination have left us? How do we get them back?
Internal page picture of "I want to take my time today".
Yanish's children's poems provide us with the answer. His extraordinary imagination can change the form of things at will. Flowers are no longer simple flowers, and Yiru poems are no longer static poems. Yanish commands the sea, buildings, animals, clouds, and wind like a magician... This reminds me of the poet Lan Lan's warning in "100 Poetry Lessons for Children": "Only the freest mind can There will be a vast world." In children's poems, without a free mind, we cannot trace the subtle traces of language, because every word written by the poet has to breathe, it is life itself, and leads us into those light And in a slow world. Written by
/Editor by Yan Chaohua
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