This five-character quatrain was written by the poet when he was exiled to Yongzhou. After Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou, his spirit was greatly hit and his mood was low. This poem is to express his lofty aloofness and his political frustration and depression by praising the hermit fisherman. The seclusion of the objective realm in the poem can better reflect the author's lonely mood.
Original text:
Xue Jiang
Author: Liu Zongyuan
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
There are no birds flying over those mountains, and there are no traces of people in those paths.
A boat on the river, a fisherman wearing his webworm moth; Fishing alone is not afraid of snow and ice.
Translation:
Birds fly out of sight in the mountains, and no one can be seen on all the roads.
On a lonely boat on the river, an old man wearing a bamboo hat was fishing alone on the cold river.
Extended data:
The poet used only twenty words to describe a quiet and cold picture: on the snowy river, a boat and an old fisherman were fishing alone on the cold river.
In such a cold and silent environment, the old fisherman ignored the cold and snow, forgot everything and devoted himself to fishing. Although it is lonely in form, it seems lofty and aloof in character, and even a little awe-inspiring. This illuminated and beautified image of the fisherman is actually the sustenance and portrayal of the poet's own thoughts and feelings.
In artistic expression, in addition to the combination of reality and fiction, this poem also has a feature, that is, rhyme. The five verses are the most exquisite sketches in quatrains, with few rhymes, and it is also the most difficult to write verve, because rhymes are easy to cause repressed psychological reactions, which is not conducive to the development of poetic realm. However, this poem has achieved unexpected results with rhyme.
Describe the background in a concrete and meticulous way, and depict the subject image in a long-distance picture; Fine and extremely exaggerated generalizations are intricately unified in a poem, which is the unique artistic feature of this landscape poem.
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