"Horse Poetry" expresses the author's thoughts and feelings of hoping to achieve success but not being appreciated.
Original poem:
"Twenty-three Horse Poems·Part 5" Tang Dynasty: Li He
The sand in the desert is like snow, and the moon in Yanshan Mountain is like a hook.
How can I be a golden person and walk quickly through the autumn.
Interpretation:
The flat sand is covered with a layer of white frost and snow under the moonlight. On the rolling ridges of Yanshan Mountain, a bright moon looms in the sky, like a curved hook.
When will the emperor appreciate me and put a gold bridle on my horse, so that I can gallop on the autumn battlefield and make contributions?
Extended information:
Li He is not talking about the horse, he is using the horse to express his great ambition, and express his desire to make great military exploits and assist the emperor to become a famous leader. . But his lofty ambitions failed.
Li He was a poet of the Tang Dynasty in China. He was extremely talented and became famous far and wide when he was young. He was famous in the capital. However, some people were jealous of his talent, saying that his father's name was Jin Xiao, and Jin had the same pronunciation as "jin" for Jinshi. He wanted to avoid his father's name, so he could not take part in the imperial examinations throughout his life, and his reputation had declined since then.
Because he could not realize his lofty ambitions, he lived a life of depression, frailty and illness. He only worked as a waiter for three years and died at the age of twenty-seven. Because he wrote good poems, later generations called him the Poet Ghost.
Li He always emphasized in his poems that this horse is not an ordinary horse. If he becomes brilliant, the whole country will become strong. If he weakens, the whole country will fall into the bottom.
When will such a good thousand-mile horse be discovered by Bole, put on a golden saddle, and become a bloody war horse on the battlefield?
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