Say goodbye in the mountains
Tangwangxu
My friend, I have been watching you go down the mountain. Until now, in the dark, I closed the door of the thatched cottage.
Spring grass will grow green next year, my friend, will you come back?
This poem "Farewell in the Mountain" does not write the farewell scene in the pavilion, but is ingenious and chooses a completely different point from ordinary farewell poems.
The first sentence of the poem, "Friend, I have been watching you go down the mountain", tells the reader at the beginning that the farewell scene and feelings have passed with a seemingly unemotional word "ba". Here, it took a while to bid him farewell, and the second sentence suddenly read "I didn't close my thatched door until now" during the day, and it took longer. When the poet cuts life into poetry, he cuts it all out as a dark field.
Anyone who has experienced parting knows that the moment when pedestrians are about to leave is really depressing, but a sense of loneliness and disappointment often becomes stronger and stronger in the evening the day after parting. At this moment when parting is the hardest to send away, writing anything will be very complicated. However, the poem only wrote an act of "shielding Chai Fei". This is an extremely common thing that people who live in the mountains do every evening. It seems that it has nothing to do with the farewell during the day. However, the poet connected these two unrelated things together, making the repeated actions every day show different meanings from the past, thus revealing feelings between the lines and seeing sadness between the lines. Readers will see the lonely expression and sadness of the people in the poem. At the same time, I will also think: Night falls after sunset. After the closure of Chai Men, how will this long night be spent? The blank left outside this sentence makes people daydream infinitely.
The third and fourth sentences of this poem "The grass turns green again in spring, but what about you, my friend Prince?" It comes from the sentence "Wang Sun swims but doesn't return, spring grass grows but doesn't return" in Chu Ci. Fu lamented that the wanderer had been separated for a long time, and these two poems were afraid that the day when he broke up with pedestrians would never return. Tang Ruxun summed up in the Interpretation of Tang Poetry that sometimes the grass is green and it is difficult for pedestrians to return. "and' difficult to return' is one of the reasons for' deep thinking'." "Going back", as a question, should be raised to pedestrians when they leave, but it is allowed to float into people's hearts when pedestrians have left and the sunset closes the door, which has become a suspense that no one asks. In this way, what is written becomes a suspense. Explain that the people in the poem are still shrouded in thoughts until dusk. Although I just broke up, I have been looking forward to my early return, but I am afraid that I will not come back for a long time. As mentioned earlier, from farewell to farewell, from "farewell" to "Gai Chai Fei", two periods were skipped in the middle; Here, at the dusk of farewell day, I think of the spring grass in the coming year and ask if I will come back then. This is another jump from now to the future, and the jump time is longer.
Wang Wei is good at extracting seemingly ordinary materials from life and expressing deep and sincere feelings in simple and natural language, which is often fascinating and fascinating. This poem "Farewell in the Mountains" goes like this.