This sentence comes from "Let Me Go", also known as "Jianghu Xing", the whole poem is as follows:
The world's storms come out of my generation, and once I enter the rivers and lakes, the years rush.
While talking and laughing about Huang Tu’s hegemony, he couldn’t bear the intoxication of life.
Raising the ghost rain while riding astride the sword, white bones like mountain birds flew away in fright.
Everything in the world is like a tide, and people are like water. Only a few people in the rivers and lakes return.
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Poetry analysis:
The first sentence: expresses the author's ambitious but heroic scholar's mentality.
The second sentence: It expresses that after the author entered the society, his soul began to accept the baptism of the world, which gave rise to the lament that life is short.
The third and fourth sentences: express the author’s reflection on universal values, because the ideal and ambition he once had can only be talked about in casual conversations now. If he had known better today, It's better to enjoy yourself in time and get drunk, so that you don't have to suffer the pain caused by the disillusionment of your ideals.
The fifth and sixth sentences: Perhaps the author feels that the feelings of the first two sentences are too negative, so in the next five or six sentences, the author chooses to use symbols and metaphors to express the social The cruelty and difficulty of struggle, perhaps the complexity of society is too dark and cold for an idealistic person like the author.
Sentences 7 and 8: This is the core idea of ??this work, which expresses the author’s inner sigh that compared to the world, human beings are just a drop of water to the ocean. They seem so insignificant. Lingyun's ambition is so arrogant that it seems so naive now that he thinks about it.
Countless people enter society with great ideals in mind, but in the end how many people can achieve their ideals and finally transcend the chaos of the world? In the end, most of them were not submerged by the tide of society and disappeared from the rest of the world.
Reference material: Let me go_Baidu Encyclopedia