symbols in `In the Middle of the Road` and `Benediction

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Carlos Drummond De andrade 의 시 "In the Middle of the Raod"
Lu Hsun 의 short story, "Benediction"

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Symbols in poem and fiction are used to convey the essential hidden meaning. Authors use symbols to evoke meaning without outright explanation and to lead readers to figure out the meaning behind the symbols. Carlos Drummond De Andrade, in his poem “In The Middle of the Road” and Lu Hsun, in “Benediction,” use several symbols to foreshadow the major meaning and event to the readers. Andrade uses the “stone” as a figure of speech to carry the meaning of unforgettable events. The narrator of “Benediction” has a similar event with a woman that he could not forget. Hsun uses symbols to describe the narrator’s enduring event; he mentions “altar” and “sacrifices” several times to indicate the death of the protagonist Hsiang-lin Sao. Her condition as both a woman and poor makes her a scapegoat that needs to be sacrificed for others, both family and villagers, to be blessed.


Secondly, Hsun leads the readers to predict the death of Hsiang-lin Sao by illustrating Sao knocking her head on the altar when she is forced to be married for money with a man living deep into the mountains: “She knocked her head a sound whack on the incense altar, and cut a deep gash from which blood spurted out thickly! They used two handfuls of incense ash on the wound, and bound it up with two thicknesses of red cloth, and still it bled” (257)

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