Falling flowers
Li Shangyin
The guests in the high pavilion went unexpectedly, and the flowers in the small garden flew everywhere.
The jagged streets convey the slanting light.
The broken intestine cannot bear to be scanned, and the piercing eyes are still thin.
The sweet heart ① is exhausted towards spring, and the income is stained clothes ②.
[Notes]
①Fangxin: Huaxin also refers to the heart of the person who looks at flowers, with a pun intended. ②Zhanyi: pun. It not only refers to the falling flowers flying around and clinging to people's clothes, but also refers to those who cherish the flowers and look at them with sadness and shed tears on their clothes.
[Appreciation]
This poem was written in the sixth year of Huichang (846 AD), when the author was living in Yongye. At that time, Li Shangyin was caught in the partisan dispute between Niu and Li. His situation was not good and he was in a depressed mood. Therefore, this poem reveals a feeling of resentment and resentment.
The first couplet directly writes about falling flowers. The first sentence is a narrative, and the second sentence describes the scene. Although the fallen flowers had been there for a long time, the guests were unaware of their presence. When the building was empty and the guests dispersed, the garden was silent. The poet felt lonely and melancholy in his heart. Only then did the poet notice the colorful fallen flowers all over the garden, and he felt sympathy for the same illness. , clever wording.
The couplets describe the specific situation of falling flowers from different angles. The first sentence focuses on space, writing about falling flowers flying in the air, connecting Qumo; the next sentence focuses on time, writing about falling flowers continuously and endlessly. The touch of "Xianghui" reveals the poet's inner peace. The whole picture is shrouded in heavy and dim tones, showing the poet's sadness and sadness.
The neck couplet is directly lyrical. When spring comes and the flowers fall, "the heartbroken people cannot bear to sweep away" expresses not only the general feeling of pity and cherishing the flowers, but also the sadness of the heartbroken people who meet the fallen flowers again. "Seeing through the eyes but still wanting to lose sight" describes the poet's infatuation and persistence in facing the falling flowers.
The last couplet is a pun. The flowers decorated the spring with their lives, and ended up withered and stained with clothes; while the poet had great ambitions, but suffered repeated setbacks, and ended up with a life of misery, disappointment, tears, desolation, and endless emotion.
The whole poem praises things that hurt oneself, uses things as a metaphor for oneself, and is endlessly sentimental.