Flowers are not flowers, flowers are not flowers, and fog is not fog.
It came in the middle of the night and left at dawn.
When did a short and beautiful spring dream come?
When they leave, they are like clouds in the morning.
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Chaoyun: This is the story of King Xiang of Chu dreaming of the Goddess of Wushan. Song Yu's preface to Gao Tang Mi: My concubine is under the sun of Wushan, the maggot of Gaoqiu, the morning clouds, the dusk rain, the morning sun and the balcony.
(1) Briefly analyze the expressive skills of this poem.
⑵ What kind of artistic conception does this poem create?
Reference answer
(1) (1) Poetry is composed of a series of metaphors, which are linked with each other and written naturally like running water. Repeatedly highlighting an unexplained metaphor with vivid images makes the expression more vague. (2) The use of three-sentence and seven-sentence rotation is rhythmic and intricate. (Answer only one of them)
(2) Only the vehicle is unknown, and the meaning is hidden. The metaphors such as fog, dreams and clouds used are ethereal and short-lived, which makes the artistic conception of the poem vague.
Two:
1. What rhetorical devices are used in this poem to describe things (metaphors)? How many metaphors are used (four) and how many ontologies are there (1)? This is called which metaphor (metaphor) in metaphor.
2. This poem is decorated by metaphorical rhetoric. What are these metaphors and what are their characteristics? What are the characteristics of ontology?
A: The metaphors are "flowers", "fog", "spring dreams" and "clouds". Flowers are beautiful, but they fade easily. "Fog" is light, but hazy and unpredictable; "Spring Dream" is a beautiful dream, but the time is very short and it is easy to wake up. "Chaoyun" is brilliant, but it is easy to disillusion. All these metaphors imply that ontology has such characteristics: beautiful, but easy to disappear.
We only know that this thing written by Bai Juyi is beautiful, but it is easy to disappear. So, what exactly is this thing?
A: ① Some people think it is a memorial work. Bai Juyi compiled this poem into a "sentimental" part when sorting out his anthology. The other two poems in this part are very close to the artistic conception of this poem: one is "Mother's Tomb": "Mother's Tomb, Tiger Hill Road; I don't know the face of the real mother in the mirror, but I saw the grass in front of the real mother's grave. Frost destroys peaches and plums, wind breaks lotus, and biological mother dies young. Fat skin and fat hands are not strong, so it is difficult to stay in the world. Difficult to stay, easy to rest, Saibei flower, Jiangnan snow. " The other is Bamboo Slips Poetry, which contains a sentence: "first frost killed peaches and plums in February and wanted to marry next year and die this year." "Most good things are not firm, and colorful clouds are easy to break." Both poems are mourning works. The metaphor in the last sentence, such as "Saibei Flower" is easy to relax, and "Cai Yun" is easy to disperse, which is exactly the same as the metaphor in the last poem "Flower is not a flower", full of emotion and emotion, showing a kind of nostalgia and regret for the beautiful things that have disappeared. "Flowers are not flowers" is closely compiled after "Poems on Jane", which may also be a meaning that the author wants to express.
Some people think this poem is a sentimental life story. Bai Juyi's family suffered many changes in his later years, which hit him hard. Besides, his sick eyes were almost blind, so he wrote poems about his unspeakable pain.
(3) Modern Shi Zhecun thinks that this poem is "written for X woman". The phrase "flowers are not flowers" is a metaphor for her whereabouts, which is as real as illusion and as virtual as truth. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, tourists invited X girlfriends to stay, and they all came in the middle of the night and left at dawn. Therefore, she didn't have much time to come, and the tourists just had a spring dream. After she left, she disappeared like a cloud in the morning.
Translation:
Like flowers and not flowers, like fog and not fog, come at midnight and leave at dawn. It's like a short and beautiful spring dream when you come, and it's like a cloud in the morning when you leave.
Appreciate:
Bai Juyi's poems are not only famous for their simple language, but also for their beautiful artistic conception. This poem "flowers are not flowers" is rather hazy, and it is indeed a special case in white poetry.
The first three words of the poem are titled, which is almost "untitled". The first two sentences should be read as "flowers-non-flowers, fog-non-fog", which gives people an unpredictable feeling first. Both "non-flower" and "non-fog" are negative, but they all contain a self-evident premise: like flowers, like fog. Therefore, it can be said that these are two clever metaphors. Su Dongpo seems to have got a little inspiration from this, and wrote the famous sentence "Like a flower, it is still like a non-flower, and no one regrets teaching" ("Water"). Su Ci chants catkins, while Bai Shi's is not obvious. But from the narrative of "coming at midnight and leaving at dawn", we can see that the metaphor here is flowers and fog, for example, what we sing is fleeting and difficult to last.
Just watching "come at midnight and leave at dawn" makes readers doubt that they are talking about dreams. But it can be seen from the next sentence "coming like a spring dream" that it is not. "Dream" turned out to be a competition. Here, "coming" and "going" play a connecting role in sound and emotion, thus producing two fresh metaphors. Those who "came in the middle of the night" had a spring dream, which was beautiful but short-lived, and then led to a question: "How long will it be like a spring dream?" Dawn sees the morning glow. Although the cloud is beautiful, it is easily disillusioned, which leads to a sigh: "the cloud seems to be nowhere to be found."
Poetry consists of a series of metaphors, which are called metaphors. The two are closely linked, like clouds and water, and written naturally. Repeatedly highlight an unexplained metaphor with vivid images. There are many examples of making good use of metaphors in poems, such as "There is a dispute between the north and the south, and the morning glory bears the yoke" in Nineteen Ancient Poems (the bright moon shines that night), and "A stream of smoke, the wind in the city, the plum yellow rain" in He Zhu's Jade Case. However, these metaphors are only part of the poem, and the metaphors that run through this poem are rare. Furthermore, the previous examples are compared with astrology such as Nanji, Beidou and Petunia, and are said to be "what's good about being famous"; Compared with the scenes of tobacco and wind and rain, the latter example means "asking how much is idle", and its metaphor (metaphorical thing) is clear. And this poem only sees metaphor (used as metaphor) and doesn't know metaphor, just like an intriguing mystery. In this way, the artistic conception of poetry is covered with a layer of "hazy" color.
Even so, the poetry of this poem is not completely obscure and elusive. It was compiled by the author in a relatively concentrated "sentimental" department, and the same department also has similar emotional works. The first one is "The Tomb of the True Mother", which reads: "Frost destroys the peach, plum and lotus flowers, and the true mother was still a teenager when she died. Fat skin and fat hands are not strong, and it is difficult to stay in the world. " It is difficult to stay, but it is easy to stop. Flowers in the north, snow in the south. The other one is Bamboo Slips Poetry, which reads: "first frost's peach blossoms are exhausted in February, and she wants to marry next year and die this year", "Most good things are not firm, colorful clouds are easy to disperse, and glass is broken". Both poems are mourning works, and the metaphor of the last sentence, especially the "Saibei Flower" and "Caiyun" which are easy to disperse, is different from this poem. The poem "Flower is not a flower" is closely compiled after "Bamboo Slip Poetry", which tells readers a piece of news about the poem's return to interest. This poem and Song of Jane were written for the same purpose at the same time.
This poem adopts the form of alternating three sentences and seven sentences (this is the flexible use of the three-seven-seven sentence pattern of folk songs at that time), which has both orderly rhythm and intricate aesthetic feeling, and is very similar to later poems. Therefore, later generations actually adopted this rhyme method as the tone of words, with "flowers are not flowers" as the tone name. A major change in the content of the May 7th poem is that the words tend to express people's inner feelings. At this point, this poem is similar to this word. It is natural that this phenomenon of "poetry is like a poem" appears in the works of Bai Juyi, a poet engaged in ci creation in the early Tang Dynasty.