1. It is Lu You’s poetry.
2. Original poem:
It was stormy on November 4th
Song Luyou
Lying stiffly in a lonely village without mourning,
Shangsi is the country's garrison platform.
I lie down at night listening to the wind and rain,
The iron horse glacier falls into my dream.
Translation
I was lying upright in the lonely and desolate countryside. I didn’t feel sad.
I still thought about guarding the border for the country.
It was late at night. I was lying in bed and heard the sound of wind and rain.
I dreamed that I was riding an armored war horse across the frozen river and heading to the north. battlefield.
Notes
① jiāng: lying upright. ② garrison (shù) Luntai: guard the border (jiāng). Luntai, a place name in the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty, is now Luntai County in Xinjiang. This generally refers to the border defense stronghold in the north. ③ 夜阑 (lán): late at night. ④ Iron horse: a war horse covered with iron armor.
Appreciation
This is a passionate poem written by Lu You, who was nearly seventy years old, on a cold and windy night, supporting his aging body and lying on a cold quilt. patriotic poems.
The first two sentences of the poem directly express the poet's own feelings. "Lying stiffly" expresses the old condition of the poet, and "solitary village" expresses the state of isolation from the world. One is "frozen" and the other is "lonely". It is extremely desolate. Why don't you "not mourn yourself"? Because the poet's patriotic enthusiasm has reached the level of selflessness, he no longer cares about his personal health and living environment, but "thinks about guarding the Luntai for the country", and still has the spirit of "the old man is in trouble and aims for a thousand miles". However, he doesn't know that reality is cruel and does not depend on people's wishes. All he can do is "think about it". These two sentences focus on the word "thinking", which shows the poet's unswerving ambition to serve the country and his concern for the country and the people!
The last two sentences are a deepening of the first two sentences. They focus on the word "dream" and are written vividly and touchingly. The poet was concerned about national affairs and formed a dream of military war. In the form of a dream, he reproduced his ambition to "garrison Luntai". "Coming into a dream" reflects the sadness of political reality: the poet wanted to serve the country but was rejected and could not kill the enemy. The feeling of the enemy can only be reflected in a dream. But the poet "does not feel sorry for himself" at all, and his desire to serve the country and kill the enemy is even stronger. I think about it every day and dream about it at night. Therefore, the dream of "Iron Horse Glacier" more fully demonstrates the poet's strong patriotic thoughts and feelings.
About the author
Lu You (1125-1210), nicknamed Fangweng, was a native of Shanyin, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province). Patriotic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. Father Lu Zai is an intellectual with patriotic thoughts. Family education enabled Lu You to establish the thought of caring about the country and the people from an early age and the ambition to kill the enemy and serve the country. He was eager to learn since he was a child, and "he was capable of poetry and prose at the age of twelve." He also learned swordsmanship and studied military science. Around the age of twenty-five, he learned poetry from Zeng Ji, a poet with patriotic ideas, and benefited a lot from it. From then on, he determined the patriotic tone of his poetry creation.