Gift to Wang Lun
Author: Li Bai Era: Tang
Li Bai was about to travel in a boat,
Suddenly he heard singing on the shore.< /p>
The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep,
It is not as good as Wang Lun’s love for me.
Appreciation:
Li Bai’s “Hundred Poems about Fighting over Wine”, a Lifetime He likes to visit famous mountains and rivers. According to the "Supplement to Suiyuan Poems" written by Yuan Mei in the Qing Dynasty: Wang Lun, a stranger he had never met, wrote to Li Bai and invited him to travel to Jingxian County. The letter wrote enthusiastically: "Sir, you like to travel." "There are ten miles of peach blossoms here. Sir, do you like to drink? There are thousands of hotels here." Li Bai went happily. Wang Lun was a wealthy man in Jing County. He was hospitable and unruly. So Li Bai asked where the Taoyuan Restaurant was, and Wang Lun replied: "Peach blossom is the name of the pool, but there are no peach blossoms; Wanjia, the owner of the shop is named Wanye, and there is no Wanjia hotel." Li Bai laughed. He stayed for a few days and left. Before leaving, he wrote the above poem. Poetry Farewell.
This poem is about Wang Lun (singing) coming to see Li Bai off. The poet was very moved, so he wrote the two-line poem "The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun's sending me love" To praise Wang Lun's admiration and love for the poet, and also to express Li Bai's deep friendship for Wang Lun.
The first two sentences of the narrative. "Li Bai is about to leave by boat" means that the poet is about to leave by boat. Peach Blossom Pond. That kind of language flowed out smoothly without thinking, showing the cool and unrestrained manner of coming in for joy and returning after being exhausted. The words "suddenly heard singing on the shore" and "suddenly heard" indicate that Wang Lun's arrival was indeed unexpected. He heard the song before anyone arrived. From the warm and hearty singing, Li Bai guessed that Wang Lun must have come to see him off. This kind of farewell showed that Li Bai and Wang Lun, two friends, were both informal and polite. , a happy and free person. In remote mountain villages, there is no complicated set of etiquette from the upper class to greet people. From the analysis of the poem, Wang Lun was not at home when Li Bai left. When Wang Lun came back and learned that Li Bai had left, he immediately brought wine with him. Li Bai rushed to the ferry to say goodbye. He left without saying goodbye and was free and uninhibited. Wang Lun, who sang to see her off, was also bold and enthusiastic and did not act like a son or daughter. In just fourteen words, he wrote about the optimistic character of the two people and the informal relationship between them. Friendship with traces.
Since Peach Blossom Pond was nearby, the poet easily picked it up and compared the depth of Peach Blossom Pond with Wang Lun’s deep love for him. “The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, and it is not as deep as Wang Lun’s love for me.” In two sentences, Shen Deqian of the Qing Dynasty commented: "If Wang Lun's feelings are compared to a thousand feet of pond water, it is an ordinary saying. The wonderful scene only changes in one change." ("Tang Poems") The beauty of these two sentences is that The word "less than" connects two unrelated things. With the "thousand-foot-deep" Peach Blossom Pond as a reference, the invisible friendship is made tangible, which is both vivid and thought-provoking. The pond has already "Thousands of feet deep", readers can also imagine the depth of Wang Lun's friendship. The poet combines this moment, this place, this feeling and this scene, these two lines of poems are like blurting out, and the feelings are true, straightforward and natural. With the depth of water, Metaphorizing the depth of human feelings is a common way of writing for poets. If the poet said that Wang Lun's friendship is really as deep as a pool of water, that would be okay, but it would appear to be general and a little deliberately carved. And the way of writing in the poem , it’s like two friends saying farewell on the side of the boat, one “advising you to have another glass of wine” and the other “one glass after another”. The spoken language, in the foreground, has an innocent and natural interest, which vaguely allows readers to see the bold and uninhibited personality of the great poet. .