There has always been a lack of long ropes, and I can’t help but regret that the water has gone and the clouds have returned.
If you want to buy from Magu, a cup of spring dew is as cold as ice.
Appreciate the passage of time, which has made many people with lofty ideals and talents throughout the ages lament their generosity. Although Li Shangyin's poem laments about such an eternal cosmic phenomenon, it is full of romantic whims and whims, which is refreshing.
Put the issue squarely in front of people at the beginning. Fu Xuan's "Nine Songs" said: "At the end of the year, the scenery is vast and the lights are shining. How can I tie a long rope to the day?" Long ropes to tie the sun are a naive fantasy of ancient people trying to stay in time. But where can such a "long rope" be found? Fu Shi's word "Ande" has already revealed the difficulty of realizing this wish; Li Shi went a step further and said that "there has never been a long rope to tie the sun", completely denying the idea of ??a long rope to tie the sun.
Because the passage of time cannot be stopped, seeing the scene of the river passing away to the east and the white clouds returning to the mountains can not help but make people sigh with emotion, and the regret in the heart is endless. From the unbridled emotion of the day to the hatred that has faded away, the emotions have sunk to the lowest point, and it seems that they are at the end of their rope. However, the poet suddenly had a whim from "hate", and turned out a new mirror with darkness and bright flowers.
“If you want, ask Magu to buy the sea.” Magu is a female fairy in ancient myths and legends. She claims that she saw the sea turn into mulberry fields three times in a short period of time. Therefore, it was determined that Canghai belonged to Magu, and they thought of buying the entire Canghai from Magu. At first reading, this strange idea seems to come out of the blue, but in fact it was born out of "the sun lacks a long rope" and "the water disappears and the clouds return". In the poet's imagination, the flow of time that "passes away like this" eventually flows into the sea, so this boundless sea is the collection of time; buying the sea means controlling and possessing all time. There will no longer be water to dissipate the hatred of clouds. This imagination is so naive that it is close to a fairy tale, but it is also surprisingly bold; it is so twisted that it buries the emotions, but it has its own fantasy logic.
The last sentence is even more surprising and melodious. Can Canghai "buy" it? The poet does not give a direct answer, but hallucinates a meaningful image in front of the readers - a cup of spring dew as cold as ice. The vast sea that had just been displayed in front of me seemed to have suddenly disappeared, leaving only a cup of cold spring dew. The mythical Magu once discovered that the sea water in the Penglai Fairy Mountain area was half shallower than it was not long ago, and the sea was probably turning into land again. The poet seized on this point and shortened the process of the sea into mulberry fields into a moment, making people realize that the cup of spring dew in front of them is just a relic of the sudden change of the vast sea. In an instant, even this cup of spring dew also changed. will disappear and cease to exist. This is an extreme exaggeration of the rapid changes in the universe and the rapid passage of time. The word "cold" reveals the ruthlessness of time, the coldness and ruthlessness of natural laws, and the poet's helpless disappointment. The strange and bold fantasy in the poem of "I want to buy Magu and buy the sea" and the fantastic and magnificent imagination of "a cup of spring dew is as cold as ice" fully reflect the poet's artistic imagination and creativity. This kind of fantastic imagination and conception is quite similar to Li He's, and we can see Li He's influence on Li Shangyin. Someone once pointed out that the idea of ??buying the sea in the poem is similar to Li He's "Bitter Days Are Short": "There is a tree like a tree in the east, with a dragon holding a candle underneath. I will chop off the dragon's feet and chew its meat so that it will not be able to return in the morning and will not be able to lie down at night." Naturally, the old will never die, the young will not cry" has similar meanings, and the poem "a cup of spring dew is as cold as ice" is a hint of the sentence "a sea water poured into a cup" by Li Jia in "Dream Sky", which is very insightful. Comparative analysis.