It's far away from sorrow, and the whip refers to the end of the world.
falling red is not a heartless thing, but turning into spring mud will protect the flowers.
2. Translation
The sadness of leaving Kyoto is as vast as a wave of water extending to the distance of sunset, and with a flick of the whip to the east, it feels like people are at the end of the world.
The fallen flowers from the branches are not heartless things. Even if they turn into spring mud, they are willing to cultivate beautiful spring flowers to grow.
3. Appreciation, this poem was written in 1839 (Jihai in the lunar calendar) and is a representative work of the poet. In that year, the poet resigned from his post and returned to his hometown in the south, and later took his family in the north. On his way back and forth, he created this large-scale quatrain poem that can be called a swan song. This group of poems recalled what they had seen, recalled the past and expressed their feelings, artistically reappeared and reflected their rich experiences in life, thoughts, friends, official records and writings, which marked the poet's ability to understand society and criticize reality and reached a new level in his later years. On the eve of the Opium War, the poem is quite a masterpiece of worrying about the country. This poem shows the poet's determination to resign, his belief and mission of serving the country, and his lofty spirit of devoting himself to the ideal of reform. It is optimistic in tone, vivid in image and full of artistic charm.