Source: Don Meng Jiao's Wandering Sons
Original poem:
The mother used the needle and thread in her hand to make clothes for her long-distance son.
Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged.
Who can say that a filial child like the weak can repay his mother's love like the sunshine in spring?
Translation:
A loving mother makes clothes for her long-distance son with a needle and thread in her hand. Before leaving, he sewed a needle tightly for fear that his son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged. Who can say that a child's filial piety as weak as grass can repay the kindness of such a loving mother as Chunhui Puze?
Poetry appreciation
The first two sentences, "The thread in the loving mother's hand makes clothes for her wayward boy's body", connect mother and child with "thread" and "clothes", and write the affection between mother and child. The next two sentences, "She sewed carefully and mended it thoroughly, fearing that the delay would make him come home late", I focused on my dear mother and wrote down her sewing action and psychology. She forgot to be tired and sewed silently and carefully. Every stitch and thread is so delicate.
Afraid of her son's delay, she was bent on sewing the clothes more firmly; In fact, she was reluctant to leave her son and longed for his early and safe return. Mother's deep affection for fists overflowed from the details of daily life, touching heartstrings and making people cry, arousing the cordial associations and deep memories of children all over the world.
The last two sentences: "but how much love there is in an inch of grass, I got three spring rays." Write about children's deep affection for their mothers. The poet compares the sunshine in spring to maternal love, which makes people feel warm, bright, soft and cordial. Contrasting children's thoughts, saying it in a rhetorical way makes people feel that a grass-like child can repay a profound and broad maternal love. This metaphor is novel, appropriate, vivid, simple and poetic.