离开大地的李绅:作者暧昧读者欭嚘

Ambiguous Writer,Sighing Readers——Li Shen Who Left the Land

李绅乃唐贞元至会昌年间诗人,“新乐府运动”得风气之先者。少年寒士而有“谁知盘中餐,粒粒皆辛苦”和“四海无闲田,农夫犹饿死”千古佳句,以诗性言说洞穿农业中国生存真相,由此而与白居易、元稹因“少贫而孤”的相同命运,客居京城广崇里得“共脱青衫”诗歌唱和之欢。然而就是这位“短李”,三十五岁举进士,并在渐入仕途之后,因完全离开他所依存的大地、民间和苍生日常,终至逐官如饥似渴,攀附于“子弟”并深陷“牛李党争”不能自拔。其所带来的直接后果就是自此无好诗,得意失意处每有“小人”嘴脸,终于去所在时域“元、白”和“韩、柳”渐行渐远,且忮求结局惨至官职尽削,敕斥世代不得参政。对后世读者而言,往往只知《悯农》而不知作者,偶知其然则唯有一声长叹。所议镜鉴在于,大地有大地的权利,亦如诗有诗的尊严。为诗必须与大地为伍,背叛正义生存选择就会最终背叛自身主体性乃至身份独立性,并且唯其背叛而必然遭遇读者漠视与抛弃。在文学价值天平上,历史是唯一的最后裁判。

Li Shen was a poet from Zhenyuan to Huichang of the Tang Dynasty, and the “New Yuefu Movement” was the first in the world. At the age of thirty-five, he was elected as a Jinshi, and after gradually entering the official career, he could not extricate himself from the government because he completely left the land, the people and the daily life he depended on. The direct consequence is that there is no good poetry since then. For later readers, they often only know that the author of “Compassion for Farmers” is unknown.Occasionally, they only have a long sigh. The mirror in question is that poetry must be associated with the land. Betraying the right choice of survival will eventually betray its own subjectivity and even identity independence, and only its betrayal will inevitably encounter the neglect and abandonment of readers. In the balance of literary value, history is the only final judge.