Looking at Dongting Lake from a distance, the green mountains in the lake look like a small green snail on a silver plate.
1. Full poem: "Looking at the Dongting" by Liu Yuxi?
The light of the lake and the moon are harmonious, and there is no windshield on the surface of the pool that has not been polished.
Looking at the green mountains and rivers of Dongting in the distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate. ?
This is a seven-character quatrain. The first sentence "The lake, the autumn moon and the two phases are in harmony", "harmony" means harmony and integration. This refers to the blending of water color and moonlight. The poet wrote this sentence from two aspects, combining the lake light with the autumn moon, and depicting the beautiful scenery of the clear and empty Dongting Lake under the bright moon on an autumn night, and the harmony of the two. Among them, the word "autumn" highlights the season and also hints at the poet's faint worries. In particular, the word "harmony" in the poem is used extremely delicately, which not only shows the integration of the moonlight of Dongting Lake at night and the calm lake water, but also creates an aesthetic realm of emptiness and vastness for the poem.
Continuing from the previous sentence "the two phases are harmonious", "there is no wind mirror on the surface of the lake but has not been polished", describing the windless and misty lake scene on the lake. "Tanmian" refers to the surface of the lake. "The mirror is not polished", we all know that the mirrors of the ancients were made of copper and polished. In this sentence, the poet uses a metaphorical rhetorical technique to compare the surface of Dongting Lake to a "mirror" and describe it as "the mirror is not polished". It not only vividly and appropriately depicts a mirror with a dim luster because it has not been polished, but also It hints at the unique landscape of the vast Dongting Lake water surface formed by the setting sun and hazy moonlight. It can be said that this sentence also provides a detailed description of the scene of the previous sentence "the lake and the autumn moon are harmonious".
Then the third sentence "looking at the scenery of Dongting mountains and rivers in the distance", here, the poet's sight shifts from the vast Pinghu Lake to Junshan Mountain. The word "yuan" not only illustrates the change of the poet's sight from near to far, but more importantly, the poet uses a high perspective to depict the grandeur of the Dongting landscape under the bright moon and silver light. picture. One of the words "color" makes people feel the mountains are greener under the moonlight, the water is clearer, and the unique beauty of the mountains and rivers is interdependent. In this way, within the extremely lofty visual atmosphere, it not only broadens the artistic conception of the poem, but also further pave the way for the subsequent description.
Then the poet wrote: "A green snail in the silver plate." "Silver plate" describes the hazy and ethereal Dongting Lake where water and sky meet. "Qingluo" is a kind of blue-black spiral-shaped ink, which was commonly used by ancient women to draw their eyebrows. This is used to describe Junshan Mountain in Dongting Lake. This sentence comes closely from the third sentence. The poet uses metaphorical rhetoric to create a picture of Junshan Mountain, Dongting Lake and the surrounding mist under the moonlit night. He uses a white silver plate to place a small and exquisite green ball. As a metaphor, the picture composed of snails not only vividly highlights the greenness of Junshan Mountain under the moonlight, but also depicts the misty vast realm of Dongting Lake and its surroundings. What's even more valuable is that the poet used this metaphor not only to create a light and elegant tone - that is, "white" and "green" are harmoniously unified in opposition, but also to condense the boundless Dongting landscape into an exquisite art craft. Treasure. In this way, not only does it use exaggerated and metaphorical rhetorical techniques to place the vast natural landscape in a bonsai-like landscape, but it also uses contrasting techniques to see the big from the small, showing the poet's broad mind. At the same time, this description also shows the poet's superb aesthetic ability and artistic expression ability.
In short, Liu Yuxi’s landscape poem is full of artistic tension and majestic momentum. It not only shows the poet’s broad mind, but also feels the poet’s romantic whimsy in the poem. think. Especially the magnanimity and extraordinary artistic talent shown in "Using a small metaphor to represent a big thing".