There is such a poem in Li Shangyin's Untitled: "When the silkworm dies, the night candle makes all the tears". It means that silkworms don't spin silk until they die, and candles can drip dry wax oil like tears when they are burned to ashes.
The specific original text is as follows:
It was a long time ago that I met her, but since we separated, the time has become longer, the east wind is blowing and a hundred flowers are blooming.
Silkworms in spring will weave until they die, and candles will drain the wick every night.
In the morning, she saw her hair cloud changing in the mirror, but she bravely faced the cold of the moonlight with her evening song.
There are not many roads to Pengshan. Oh, Bluebird, listen! -Give me what she said! .
Creation background
In the Tang Dynasty, people advocated Taoism. When Li Shangyin was young, his family sent him to Yuyangshan to learn Taoism. In the meantime, I met and fell in love with Song Huayang of Yuyang Mountain, but their feelings could not be made public, and the author's uncontrollable love was outrageous, so he could only express his feelings with poetry and hide the topic, thus making the poem both hazy and affectionate. According to the examination, there are twenty poems named Untitled, most of which are poems describing their love. So is this poem, and it is the most famous one.
Appreciation of poetry and prose
Similar descriptions can be found in the first, third, fourth and fifth sentences of previous poems. The poet was inspired, inherited and used for reference by his predecessors. However, he did not simply imitate his predecessors, but took a big step forward creatively, transforming the original means of expression into more twists and turns to reflect deeper feelings. In fact, he has removed the old traces and become a new creation. It can be seen that the poet's literary accomplishment and exploration of the means of expression are the primary conditions for the success of this poem.