In late autumn, cicadas are singing outside the Western Wall, which brings the sadness of my prisoner, towards the distant.
How can I stand the good times in Hyun Bin's heyday and recite such a sad poem by myself?
The wings are thin and want to fly, and the human cold can't be kept. The wind is loud and easy to sink, but it is difficult to protect its fragrance.
No one knows that I am as pure and noble as Qiu Chan. Who can express my pure heart of ice crystals for me?
Original text:
A political prisoner is listening to cicadas.
Tang Dynasty: King Robin
Cicadas sing in the west, and guests think of the south.
I can't stand the shadow on my temple to break the heart of a white-haired prisoner.
His flight passed through the thick fog, and his pure voice was drowned in the world of wind.
Who knows if he is still singing? Who will listen to me? ?
Nanguan: Chu Guan, this is what the prisoner meant. Use depth: one is "invasion". Hyun Bin: It refers to the black wings of cicadas, which is a metaphor for the prime of life. That's comparable: an "unbearable". Dew weight: autumn dew is thick. Difficult to fly: it is difficult to fly high.
From: A Political Prisoner Listening to Cicada by Robin in the Tang Dynasty.
This poem was written in adversity. The author praises cicada's noble character, comparing cicada with wealth, embracing itself with cicada, expressing emotion with things, and setting it far and deep. The integration of cicada and man expresses the poet's sadness that he is noble but "embarrassed by the times", and expresses his desire to distinguish innocence and avenge wrongs.
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Creative background:
This poem was written in the third year of Yifeng, Tang Gaozong (678). At that time, King Robin, who had been relegated for more than ten years and had just been promoted to suggestion, was falsely accused and imprisoned for accepting bribes. Mr. Wen Yiduo said that King Robin "was born with chivalrous spirit, meddlesome, keen on killing, revenge and revolution, and helping spoony women break their hearts" (Poem of Palace Complaints).
These words tell the root cause of Robin's imprisonment. He dared to contradict his boss and use his knife to write, so he was imprisoned by the authorities on charges of "accepting bribes" and "touching the marquis of Wu". This poem was written by King Robin in prison.
Syntactically, the first two sentences of this poem are antithetical sentences, but in fact, they are used to arouse the guests' thinking by chirping cicadas. At the beginning of this poem, Qiu Chan sings loudly, which makes him deaf. Next, it points out that the poet deeply misses his home in prison. Three or four sentences, one about cicada, one about myself, and "Nakan" and "Laidui" form a flowing pair, which connects things with me. The poet satirized Wu Zetian several times and even went to jail.
Three or four sentences, one about cicada, one about myself, and "Nakan" and "Laidui" form a flowing pair, which connects things with me. The poet satirized Wu Zetian several times and even went to jail. Great young people, after all kinds of political torture, have disappeared, with stars and white hair on their heads.
Seeing this singing Qiu Chan in prison, he was still in the dark, and he couldn't help hurting himself. At the same time, he recalled his childhood, which was not as good as Qiu Chan's singing. Now he has accomplished nothing, even went to prison. In these ten words, the poet's method of action is more than ridicule, which euphemistically and tortuous expresses this sad feeling.
The last five or six sentences are purely "bi". There is not a word in the two sentences that is not about cicadas, and there is not a word that is not about yourself. "Exposing the weight" and "windy" are metaphors of environmental pressure, "flying hard" is a metaphor of political dissatisfaction, and "speaking loudly is easy to sink" is a metaphor of suppressed speech. Cicadas are like this, and so are poets. Things here are mixed and inseparable. Only when the poems about objects are written in such a state can they be regarded as "reposing in the distance".