Chapter 32 combine action with fantasy

One summer, a young countryman from Massachusetts visited the elderly Emerson. The young man claims to be a poetry lover, and has been writing poetry since he was seven years old. However, due to his remote location, he has not been able to get guidance from famous teachers. Because he admires Emerson's name, he has traveled thousands of miles to seek literary advice. guide. Although the young poet came from a poor background, he speaks elegantly and has an extraordinary bearing.The two poets, old and young, talked very harmoniously, and Emerson admired him very much.Before leaving, the young poet left behind a few pages of poems.

After reading these few pages of poems, Emerson decided that this country young man would have a bright future in literature, and decided to use his influence in the literary world to vigorously support him. Emerson recommended those poems for publication in literary journals, but there was little response.He hoped that the young poet would continue to send him his works.As a result, the two poets, young and old, began frequent correspondence. The young poet's letter is several pages long, and he talks a lot about literary issues, full of passion and quick wit, which shows that he is indeed a talented poet.

Emerson admired his talent greatly, and often mentioned the poet in conversations with friends. The young poet soon gained a little fame in the literary world. However, the young poet never sent any poems to Emerson again, but the letters became longer and longer, with endless whims and fantasies, and he began to pretend to be a famous poet in his words, and his tone became more and more arrogant. Emerson began to feel uneasy.With his deep insight into human nature, he discovered a dangerous tendency in this young man.Correspondence has continued.Emerson's attitude gradually became cold, and he became a listener.

Soon, autumn is here. Emerson wrote to invite the young poet to a literary party.He arrived on time. In the old writer's study, the two had a conversation: Then why didn't you send me the manuscript? I'm writing a long epic. Your lyric is brilliant, why interrupt it? To be a great poet one must write long epics, and there is no point in making small troubles. Do you think that your previous works were all about playing around? Yes, I am a great poet, and I must write great works. perhaps you're right.You are a very talented person and I hope to read your big work sooner rather than later.

Thanks, I've finished one and it will be published soon. At the literary party, the young poet admired by Emerson made a big splash.He talked about his great works to everyone he met, and he was brilliant and aggressive. Although no one has read his major works, even his few small poems recommended by Emerson are rarely read.But almost everyone thinks that this young man is destined to become a big player.Otherwise, could the great writer Emerson appreciate him so much? In a blink of an eye, winter is here. Young poets continued to write to Emerson, but never mentioned his major works.The letters kept getting shorter and more depressing in tone, until one day he finally admitted in it that he hadn't written anything in a long time.The so-called great works in the past are nothing but fiction, completely his fantasy.

He wrote in the letter: I have longed to become a great writer for a long time, and everyone around me thinks that I am a talented and promising person, and I think so myself.I have written some poems, and I have been honored to receive your appreciation, and I am deeply honored. To my great distress, I have been unable to write anything since.For some reason, whenever I face the manuscript paper, my mind goes blank.I consider myself a great poet and must write great works.In my imagination, I feel that I stand shoulder to shoulder with the great poets in history, including your honorable lord.

In reality, I have a deep contempt for myself, because I have wasted my talent and can't write anymore.But in my imagination, I am a great poet, I have already written masterpieces handed down from generation to generation, and I have ascended to the throne of poetry.Your Excellency, please forgive me, an arrogant and ignorant country boy Since then, Emerson has never received a letter from the young poet. Emerson warned us: When a person is young, who has not dreamed?Who hasn't fantasized?Dreaming is a sign of youth.But, my young friends, please remember that people have to grow up after all.The world is so vast and the world is so beautiful, what awaits you is not only a pair of fantasy wings, but also a pair of down-to-earth feet!

★Life is delicious★ Freud, the master of Western psychoanalysis, named fantasy as daydream.He believes that daydreaming is that people cannot satisfy a certain desire in real life, so they realize the desire psychologically through a series of fantasies and fantasies, and then seek a certain psychological balance for themselves in nothingness.Freund's theory also proposed a key word: escape.In other words, a person who indulges too much in fantasy must be a person with a strong tendency to avoid, making people unwilling to face the real reality.What these words mean is that this is the great harm that fantasy brings to people.