"Being a stranger alone in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice every festive season." It's a poem by Wang Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
This is a poem from on the mountain holiday thinking of my brothers in shandong by Wang Wei.
The whole poem of "on the mountain holiday thinking of my brothers in shandong" is as follows: Being a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my family more often during festivals. Think of the brothers body boarded up high, will also because of less than I have a regret.
The literal meaning of the whole poem: I am far away from my hometown alone, unable to reunite with my family, and I miss my distant relatives all the more during the Double Ninth Festival. Far away, I think that my brothers will feel sorry for missing me when they climb the heights with cornus.
Appreciation of the whole poem:
The ninth day of September in the lunar calendar is the Double Ninth Festival. "Remembering" means missing. On the Double Ninth Festival, Wang Wei was alone and missed his family very much, so he wrote this seven-character quatrain, which naturally and truly expressed his feelings of missing his relatives in his hometown.
In the first two sentences, "foreign land" refers to a foreign land, and the words "foreign land" and "stranger" highlight the poet's loneliness in a foreign land. "Double" means "double and more", which is used very skillfully, expressing that he is also obsessed with his hometown on weekdays, but only misses his loved ones twice during the Double Ninth Festival. From the beginning, the poet directly expressed his strong yearning for his loved ones alone in a foreign land.
In the last two sentences, the poet stopped writing about how he missed his hometown, but turned his eyes to the distance, imagining that his relatives in his hometown were all wearing cornus to climb the mountain, only to find that one person was missing. How sorry they should be! It seems that his own loneliness is not worth mentioning, and the regrets of his relatives need to be concerned more. This way of expressing one's feelings by imagining others' feelings expresses the poet's yearning for his hometown and relatives more strongly.