My body is like catkin floating in the wind, and my heart is like duckweed chasing the water. What does this poem mean?

Moral: The body floats with the wind like catkins, and the heart drifts with the tide like duckweed. Express a relatively quiet and indifferent state of mind, or that the mind is restless and helpless.

Or the posture is light and rises with the wind, and the breeze can lift it. If the heart is duckweed, it has no roots and can only drift with the tide. A kind of spiritual loneliness, the smell of loneliness always makes people feel so powerless but helpless.

Origin: It evolved from Du Fu's Nine Poems of Man Xing.

Original: heartbroken spring river is exhausted, and the stick is placed around.

Crazy catkins go with the wind (dance), and fine peach blossoms chase the water.

It is said that the riverside scenery is gorgeous, but the third spring is coming to an end. How can I not be sad? Walking on crutches at the head of the river, standing on the Zhou Fang, I only saw catkins jumping wildly, dancing unscrupulously with the wind, and thin, self-respecting peach blossoms chasing the running water.

Extended data:

Du Fu's poems:

In the second year of Du Fu's residence in Chengdu Caotang, the title of "Nine Poems of Manxing" means to write at will.

His poems are mostly about social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings, and are known as "the history of poetry". He cares about the country and the people, has a noble personality and exquisite poetic skills, and is known as the "poet saint". He is good at using many systems of classical poetry and creatively developing them.

He is the pioneer of the new Yuefu poetry style. His Yuefu poems contributed to the development of the new Yuefu movement in the middle Tang Dynasty. His "May 7th" ancient novel, which is also a history of poetry, began to narrate and focus on the whole story, marking the high achievement of poetry art. ..

He also showed extraordinary creativity in the Five-Seven Rhymes, and accumulated complete artistic experience in melody, antithesis, diction and sentence making, which made this genre reach a fully mature stage.