Du Fu’s Lantern Festival poems

Hate to say goodbye

Tang··Du Fu

We were separated from Luo City for four thousand miles, and Hu Qi drove for five or six years.

The grass and trees are decaying, and outside the sword, the soldiers are blocked by the old river.

I feel homesick and stand up at night when the moon is clear. I recall my younger brother sleeping in the daytime watching the clouds.

Hearing that Heyang was about to win, Situ was anxious to defeat Youyan.

When appreciating this poem, you must first pay attention to the expressive effect of the wording, and secondly, pay attention to the implicit implication of the meaning, embodying the emotion in the depiction and narrative of the image. The "one farewell" and "long drive" in the first couplet, and the words "decline" and "old" in the first couplet, on the one hand show the arrogance of the rebels, on the other hand they also show the poet's helplessness, sadness, wandering and haggard during the Anshi Rebellion. encounter. The neck couplet expresses the deep affection of missing one's family and remembering one's brother through the detailed description of life of "rising up at night and sleeping during the day, worrying and abnormal". The words "missing home" and "remembering my brother" in these two sentences are intertextual, euphemistically and tortuously expressing the infinite feelings of missing relatives, highlighting the meaning of the title "hating to say goodbye". Shen Deqian commented on this couplet: "If you say how to think, how to say Remember, love affairs are easy to end.