You ask me when I will go home, but I haven’t set a date yet; it’s raining heavily in Bashan tonight, and the autumn rain fills the pond. When will you and I get together again and talk under the west window with candlelight? I will tell you about my painful feelings in the autumn rain tonight.
Poem Appreciation
This is Li Shangyin's popular lyrical short chapter, written by the poet to his wife far away in the north. At that time, the poet was blocked by the autumn rain and stranded in Jingba area. His wife sent a letter from home asking about his return date. But the autumn rain continued and traffic was interrupted, so it was impossible to determine, so I replied: You asked about the return date but there is no date. This sentence has questions and answers, ups and downs, and reveals the poet's sorrow of being stranded in a foreign land with an uncertain return date. The poet and his wife Wang were deeply in love, and they always looked forward to returning to their hometown soon. They sat under the west window with their wives, cut off the candles, and talked late at night. At this time, I can only miss you hard. There are only four lines in the poem, but the scenes are blended together, and the virtual and the real are intertwined. It not only contains the back and forth contrast of space, but also reflects the loop and jump of time. "He Dang" is a word of imagination, and the imagination is born from the real scene, so the night rain in Bashan in the second sentence becomes the topic of memory in the imagination, and naturally becomes a clever poem like "But talk about the night rain in Bashan".
Most of Li Shangyin’s love poems are elegant and gorgeous, with profound twists and turns. This poem is titled "The Night Rain Sends Nei" in "Ten Thousand Tang Dynasty Quatrains", and "nei" means "inner person". Refers to the wife. The poet missed his wife in the rainy night in Bashan, full of deep nostalgia. The poet uses simple and unpretentious words to describe his deep love for his wife, which is kind and interesting. The whole poem is novel in conception, natural and smooth, with ups and downs.
Deep feelings, far-reaching thoughts and lingering thoughts
- Appreciation of Li Shangyin's "Night Rain Sends to the North"
This article points out through an in-depth analysis of the poem "Night Rain Sends to the North" It shows a unique artistic style in Li Shangyin's poetry creation: image, delicate, implicit and profound. ?
Keywords: various styles; misplaced perspective; euphemism; blending of scenes; implicit
Li Shangyin (813-858), courtesy name Yishan, alias Yuxisheng, Huaizhou Hanoi (now Qinyang, Henan), a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. ?
Li Shangyin’s poems show a variety of styles, as Zhou Zhenfu commented: “There are the beauty of the tassels of hundreds of treasures, the fineness of the thousands of silk nets, and the emptiness and clarity of flowing clouds and flowing water.”?①, His poems occupy an important position in the history of Chinese poetry, opening up a new artistic conception and enriching the artistic achievements of Tang poetry. This article only analyzes Li Shangyin's poem "Night Rain Sends to the North" and reveals a unique artistic style in his poetry creation: image, delicate, implicit and profound. ?
I asked you if your return date has not yet been announced. ?
The night rain in Bashan swelled the autumn pond. ?
Why should *** cut off the candles from the west window?
But talk about the rainy night in Bashan. ?
This is a popular little poem, written by a poet living in the distant foreign land of Bashu to his wife in Chang'an. Li Shangyin's love for his wife was very sincere. Less than 12 years after their marriage, his wife died. Even during those 12 years, because the poet was wandering around, he could not reunite with his wife often. As the saying goes: A little separation is better than a new marriage. Li Shangyin and his wife were separated for a long time, so he had a deeper and stronger understanding of the love and longing for each other. In his writing, there is a sincere enthusiasm like "spring silkworms spin silk" and "wax torches turn to ashes", showing a unique artistic style. ?
This little poem is written as clearly as words, without allusions or metaphors. It directly describes the events, the scenery, and the words; it embodies the emotions in the scenery, the scenes blend together, and it contains infinite meaning The deep feeling in the simple and unpretentious words leaves endless room for aftertaste. ?
The first sentence begins with "Jun" to address each other directly, and uses a unique perspective to outline a picture of the couple's love and tenderness: Dear wife, you must be asking me with eagerness when the date will be. It’s the time to return, so let me tell you now, I don’t know when or what month I will be able to go home. The uniqueness of this poem is that the poet writes about his lovesickness from a misplaced perspective, that is, the other party may not actually send a letter asking about the return date, but the poet himself imagines that his wife misses him and asks about the return date. Poems about lovesickness in ancient Chinese poems often do not directly describe how one misses the other person, but how the other person misses oneself. In this way, the poet's longing is implicitly expressed. For example, Du Fu's "Looking at the Moon" expresses his longing for his wife by imagining her longing for him on a moonlit night. The sentence "I asked you about your return date has not been announced yet" may seem plain, but he injects his longing for his wife into every word, which is euphemistic, affectionate and thought-provoking. ?
"The rain at night in Bashan makes the autumn pond rise" directly describes the environment in which I was at that time, that is, it describes the scene. The poet describes a specific environment in concise language: Bashan, autumn night, heavy rain. The author made a more specific description of this environment, not only writing about the rain falling from the sky, but also writing about the rain accumulated underground. Through the realistic scenery, people seem to feel such an atmosphere: the surroundings are dark and confused, the heavy rain is pouring, the pond is full, there is no close friend around the author, the rain is violent, the wind is violent, and everyone is lonely. This feeling and scene make people feel doubly sad. Feeling lonely and desolate. The drenching autumn rain makes people upset, and the brimming water in the pond makes people full of emotions. Naturally, the author's inner emotions are also turbulent and difficult to calm down.
So, the feeling of "Rising Autumn Pond" is more than just the torrential autumn rain and rising pond water? It is clearly the emotional wave of the author's endless longing for his wife during sleepless nights. Therefore, the description of scenery is deeply emotional. It is about the environment, but it is not just about the environment. There is a word "love" between the lines. In this way, the blending of scenes constitutes an artistic realm.
This poem is written twice: "Bashan Night Rain", the first time is a real writing, the second time is an imaginary writing, imagining the reunion with his wife, and again when "*** cuts the candle on the west window" Recalling the rainy night scene in Bashan.
If the first two sentences are actual descriptions of the current situation, then the last two sentences are virtual descriptions of the future. On a night of continuous autumn rain, the poet touched the scenery and spread the wings of imagination, using rich and natural associations to express the love between the couple. The poet chose two modalities here: one is the dynamic "cutting" and the other is the modal "queuing". "*** cuts the candle from the west window", which depicts a beautiful picture of a good night in detail, detail and infinitely expressive. The word "***" expresses the intimacy. The word "He Dang" pushes the beautiful scenery described by the poet into the distance and into the void. It turns out that this beautiful scenery is what the poet longs for and yearns for. As for when he will return to the gentle land, everything is "unexpected". This is such a cruel thing and such a helpless thing. Every word in this sentence contains feelings, but there is no word "love" in it. The expression is very subtle. ?
There is no better way to convey feelings than words, "words are the voice of the heart." The poet imagines the couple reunited together, talking by candlelight at night, and having spiritual communication. "But words" refers to retrospection. The poet imagined that time at this time, and he was talking about this time at that time. He was talking about his longing during the rainy night in Bashan. In this short four-line poem, the words "Bashan Night Rain" appear in two places. This situation is extremely rare in ordinary ancient poems.
Imagery, delicate, implicit, and profound, it is The artistic characteristics of this poem.