The saddest place in the world is this farewell acie law.
Spring breeze will also want to leave the pain of parting, instead of urging this willow tree to turn green.
The Old Pavilion, built in the Three Kingdoms and the Wu Dynasty, is located in the south of Nanjing today, which is an ancient farewell place. When Li Bai wrote this quatrain, it was in the early spring and the wicker was not green. But what the poet wants to write is not the spring scenery of this ancient pavilion, but just because of the land, expressing feelings with scenery and expressing people's parting pain with the pavilion as the topic.
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The first two sentences of the poem, "The world is cold, and guests are sent to pavilions", break the theme and go straight to the theme with extremely refined pen and ink and highly generalized techniques. As far as the meaning of the sentence is concerned, these two sentences are Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs and Less Life" and Jiang Yan's "Biefu", which say that "those who are fascinated have just left". But since the poet took the pavilion as the topic, he went beyond it. Through the first floor, he didn't say that the saddest thing in the world is to leave, only that the saddest thing in the world is to leave the pavilion. In this way, we can look at the song from the viewpoint, write about the parting place and the pavilion to see the guests off, so that the statement will be more brilliant, the thinking will be more detached, and the readers will be influenced by the pavilion and people because of the place and things.
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However, the strength of this poem is not the above two sentences, but the last two. In the last two poems, the poet has pushed the poetry to the peak in order to effectively express the theme and express the pain of parting. There seems to be nothing to say, and there is no room for further wandering. If the last two sentences are simply derived from the last two sentences, then the whole poem will be weak and tasteless. The poet thought about it, suddenly turned his pen to the scene where the wicker was not green outside the pavilion, and continued to write the whole article with the words "Don't suffer from the spring breeze, don't turn the wicker green".
This unexpected genius pen comes from the poet's rich association. "Wen Xin Diao Long Xun pian" said: "Poets have a sense of things, but they are not poor." Poetry often comes from association. Poets should be good at thinking from A and B, and from B and C. The wider the association and the more twists and turns, the deeper and more intriguing the poem will be. In ancient times, there was a custom of breaking willows to bid farewell, so some poets often thought of willows and made a fuss about them when writing farewell. For example, Wang Zhihuan's "Farewell": "Liu Yang Dongfeng Tree, Qingqing Yu Jiajia River; The recent ups and downs should be due to a lot of separation, that is, from Liu Shang, the concept is also very deep; But as far as the poet's association is concerned, just linking the farewell with the willow tree is inherently related. Although the poem says that the willow tree is an "easterly tree", it does not associate farewell with the easterly wind. Li Bai's two poems not only think of breaking the willow for parting, but also think that the willow eye will be led by the spring breeze, thus linking the two things that were originally irrelevant. If the association of Wang's poems is direct, then the association of Li's poems is indirect, and the wings of association will fly further.
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It should be said that in ancient poetry, it is not unique to write a poem from "Farewell to Folding Willow" to "From Willow to Spring Breeze". Juyuan Yang's "Folding Willow": "The willow at the water's edge bends the dust, which immediately bothers you to fold one; There is a spring breeze that cherishes you the most, and diligence blows into your hands. " It is also ingenious, but compared with these two poems by Li Bai, it is not surprising that they are ingenious, and Li Bai combines association with whimsy. The poet had a whim, because the wicker was not green, and there were no branches to fold when he sent it away. He thinks this is because the spring breeze deliberately doesn't blow wicker and deliberately doesn't let it turn blue. The reason why the spring breeze doesn't let the wicker turn blue is because he knows the pain of parting and can't bear to see the sight of people breaking willows. Judging from the poet's conception, this is an association and a whimsy; But from the artistic point of view, this is to express emotion with things, to empathize with scenery, to write the original ignorant and heartless spring breeze with knowledge and affection, so that it can share the parting and sad heart with the people who are about to leave, thus turning it into me and making it the emotional embodiment of the poet. Li E praised these two poems in A Brief Record of Poems, and pointed out that their "beauty lies in the words" knowing "and" not sending ",which is a one-sentence comment.
The first sentence of Li Shangyin's poem "Give a Folding Willow from the Pavilion" is similar to Li Bai's poem: "Don't worry about wine for the time being, frown and slim your waist. There is only one thing before the end of the world, and the spring breeze strives to cherish the strip. " In contrast, these two poems are all about leaving the pavilion, thinking of willow from parting, and thinking of spring breeze from willow. They also wrote that Chunfeng knew the pain of parting and was full of sympathy for human parting. However, the starting point of the two poems is the same, but the conclusion is completely opposite: Li Bai's imaginary spring breeze doesn't let the willow turn green because he doesn't want to see the scene of willow breaking; However, Li Shangyin imagined that the spring breeze would make people express their feelings from folding willows and get a little comfort when they were leaving, and they would not hesitate to climb willows. This shows that the same theme can have different ideas and different writing methods. The poet's imagination can fly freely, and the imaginary world is infinitely vast.