wood thrush
Ouyang Xiu
A thousand voices move at will,
The height of mountain flowers, red and purple trees.
All I know is that the lock is listening to the golden cage.
Not as comfortable as the Woods.
[Notes]
Free action: fly freely in the Woods.
② Tree height: high or low in the forest.
③ Golden birdcage: a birdcage inlaid with gold.
[explanation]
When I came to the Woods, I saw blackbirds flying freely on the branches full of red, purple and purple mountain flowers, and heard them singing happily on the high and low treetops. He couldn't help feeling that if they were locked up, even in golden cages, they wouldn't sing such beautiful songs. Because freedom is the premise of a happy life. Birds are like this, aren't people like this?
Only then did I know that it is far better to keep a thrush in a golden cage and listen to its crow than to let it sing freely in the Woods.
[Appreciation] This article expresses the mind by chanting thrush, and the poem is entitled "Tongue of Bai Wen in County Zhai". Thrush and tongue are euphemistic songbirds. The poet also wrote in the poem "Birds Singing" that "it's beautiful to sleep in the south window, and the tongue doesn't dawn to urge the morning. The oriole is lovely in color and dumb as a baby. " This shows his appreciation of "free singing in the forest". Through the comparison with "locked in a golden cage", we can see the poet's psychology of breaking free and yearning for freedom. The poet used to be an official in the DPRK, but later he was implicated in the party struggle and was demoted to know the prefecture and magistrate. These two sentences are probably suppressed.
Use the method of contrast: the first two sentences (write freely and freely loud thrush) are compared with the last two sentences (write a thrush trapped in a cage and losing his freedom).