This poem is from Two Storms on November 4th written by Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. Full text: I am lying in a remote village, without self-pity, and I still want to protect my country and defend my country. The night will be over, I lie in bed listening to the sound of wind and rain, in a daze in my dream, riding an armored horse across the frozen river to the northern battlefield.
I lay flat in the lonely and desolate country, not feeling sorry for my situation, but thinking about defending the country. As the night drew to a close, I lay in bed and heard the sound of wind and rain. I dreamt in a daze that I rode an armored war horse across the frozen river and came to the northern battlefield.
Creative background: Lu You has been living in his hometown of Yin Shan since he was dismissed from office in the 16th year of Xiaozong Xichun in the Southern Song Dynasty. This poem was written in Song Guangzong on November 4th, 2003. At that time, the poet was 68 years old. Although I am old, my patriotic feelings are undiminished, and I miss serving my motherland day and night. The poet's strong desire to recover the motherland has been impossible to realize in reality. So, on a stormy night, he touched the scene and moved with emotion, realizing his desire to gallop in the Central Plains in his dream.
Appreciation of the whole poem:
This poem deeply expresses the author's ambition to recover the country and serve the motherland and the unswerving spirit of "being old without losing" in a way of "haunting dreams", and shows the reader the poet's sincere loyalty. The first two sentences of the poem are closely related in meaning: "Sleeping in a lonely village without self-mourning" describes the author's realistic situation and mental state, and "thinking about defending the country and defending the country" is an explanation of the mental state of "not self-mourning", which takes care of before and after and forms a contrast. The words "stiff, lying, lonely and village" describe the author's bleak situation at this time.
"Sleeping at night and listening to the wind and rain" is closely related to the following two sentences. I can't sleep at night because I want to. If you can't sleep, you can feel the wind and rain of nature more truly. From the storms of nature, you think of a stormy country. From a stormy country, you will naturally think of the situation of war and your military life in its prime.
In this way, while listening and thinking, tossing and turning, a special dream "Iron Horse Glacier" was conjured up. "Dreaming" reflected the sadness of political reality: the poet wanted to serve the country but was rejected, so he could not kill the enemy, and the feeling of defending the enemy could only be shaped in his dream. The Dream of Tiema Glacier is the result of the poet's thinking day and night, which vividly expresses the poet's heroism. This is also the aspiration of a generation of people with lofty ideals and the national justice of the Southern Song Dynasty.