I lay flat in the lonely and desolate country, not feeling sorry for my situation, but thinking about defending the country. As the night drew to a close, I lay in bed and heard the sound of wind and rain. I dreamt in a daze that I rode an armored war horse across the frozen river to the northern battlefield.
Two Storms on November 4th is a seven-character quatrain written by Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was written by the author when he retired to his hometown in November of the third year of Shao Xi (1 192).
Poets aim high, but they are not valued by the imperial court. He can only "lie in a lonely village" and pin his ideal of restoring the Central Plains on his dreams. Deep and tragic feelings condensed the poet's patriotic passion.
Appreciation of the whole poem:
Lying in the dead of night listening to the wind and rain is followed by two sentences. I can't sleep at night because I want to. If I can't sleep, I can feel the wind and rain of nature more truly. From the storms of nature, I thought of the stormy country. From that stormy country, I naturally think of the storm of war and my youthful military life.
In this way, while listening and thinking, I turned to a special dream-"Iron Horse Glacier". "Dreaming" reflected the sadness of political reality: the poet wanted to serve the country but was rejected, so he could not kill the enemy, and his feelings of defending the enemy could only be shaped in his dream. The Dream of Tiema Glacier is the result of the poet's thinking day and night, which vividly expresses the poet's heroism. This is also the aspiration of a generation of people with lofty ideals and the national justice of the Southern Song Dynasty.