"The Shepherd Boy" poem Lv Yan (Tang Dynasty)
The lawn is six or seven miles in vilen, and I played the flute three or four times. After dinner at dusk, don't take off the hemp fiber to see the bright moon.
Text analysis:
"The grass shop is six or seven miles away from the field, and the flute is the night wind three or four times." Poetry gives us visual and auditory feelings. Looking around, the grass on the vilen is lush; Listen to the flute in the evening breeze. The word "paving" shows the lush grass and the gentle and comfortable feeling of grassland; The word "Nong" shows a kind of interest, conveying the intermittent and melodious flute sound in the wind and the meaning of the shepherd boy playing the flute.
"After dinner at dusk, don't undress and lie in the moonlight." After changing a pen, the poet began to write the rest of the stuffed shepherd boy. A shepherd boy with the earth as his bed and the sky as his account, who eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is sleepy, has no attachments and is free. There is no scene of family gathering, no scene of partners playing, and the full shepherd boy doesn't even take off his hemp fiber and lies on the grass on a moonlit night.
The poem "The Shepherd Boy" shows us a vivid picture of a shepherd boy returning home at night: the vast Yuan Ye is covered with green grass; The evening breeze is blowing the weeds. I haven't seen the shepherd boy come back yet, but I first heard the melodious and approaching flute of the shepherd boy coming from the wind. The flute sounded intermittently and fluttered with the wind. The shepherd boy came back and had a good meal. It's already after dusk. He didn't even take off his hemp fiber, so he lay in the open field to rest on a moonlit night. There are scenes, feelings, characters and voices in the poem. This vivid scene appears in our field of vision from far and near.
We feel the peace and tranquility of the life of "work at sunrise and rest at sunset", and also let us feel the freedom and natural relaxation of the shepherd boy's mind. During the day, cows and shepherds are friends, and at night, it's really like living in a paradise. Of course, through poetry, we can also see the author's pursuit of spiritual world, a yearning for a happy life away from the noise.