Interpretation of Li Shangyin's Poems The Tempest and Chang 'e

wind and rain

Li shangyin

Although I have an ambitious heart, and I also have the heroic poem "Bright Sword", it is not the most popular, and I have stayed in this strange place for a long time.

The yellow leaves are withered, the wind and rain are still destroyed, the noble buildings are rich, and the broad masses of people are playing beautiful dances and impatient strings.

New friends are covered with secularism, so old friends are separated by layers.

I shouted for Xinfeng Liquor, and I had Qian Qian's worries.

After reading the sword, I feel that my situation is very bleak and my wandering days are almost over. Yellow leaves are still falling in the wind and rain, and the rich in the brothel are still singing and dancing. New friends are slandered by secular attacks, and old friends are alienated from each other. I have stopped drinking in my heart, but I am very sad. I don't care how much it costs to drown my sorrows.

This poem was written by the poet when he was in exile in a foreign land in his later years. At this time, this long-lost poet has reached the end of his life. Facing the sword, the poet thinks he is brilliant, but he is frustrated. He drifted out without any achievements, just like swaying in the wind and rain. He couldn't help feeling depressed and borrowed wine to express his sadness. The artistic conception of the whole poem is sad, self-metaphorical, natural and smooth, and meaningful. The sound of mica screen in Changshang has a deep shadow, the long river is gradually falling and the stars are sinking. Chang 'e, I must regret eating the elixir, and now I am alone, in the blue sky, singing every night. Appreciating a poem named Chang 'e actually describes the lonely hero's feelings about the environment and his monologue. The first two sentences describe the hero's environment and sleepless nights. Indoor, the candlelight is getting darker and darker, and a deep shadow hangs over the mica screen, showing the emptiness and cold of the room more and more, revealing the gloomy mood of the protagonist sitting alone in the long night. Outdoors, the Milky Way is gradually moving westward, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl face each other across the river, which may bring some reverie to the sleepless people who are alone in the lonely room, but now this school of Milky Way is about to disappear. The empty sky is dotted with sparse morning stars, which seems to be silently accompanying a lonely moon and those who never sleep. Now even this last companionship will disappear. The word' God' vividly depicts the dynamics of the morning star, and the hero's heart seems to be sinking gradually. "Candle shadows are deep", "Long river sets the yen" and "dawn stars sink", indicating that the time is near dawn, and writing the word "gradually" implies the passage of time. The protagonist in Loneliness spent another sleepless night facing the cold screen and the lonely moon in the blue sky. Although there is no direct description of the protagonist's psychology here, with the help of the rendering of the environmental atmosphere, the protagonist's loneliness and unbearable loneliness can almost be touched. On a lonely night, the most striking and imaginative nature in the sky is a bright moon. When you see the bright moon, you will naturally think of the legendary moon fairy Chang 'e. It is said that she used to be the wife of Hou Yi, because she ate the elixir given by the Queen Mother of the West and flew to the Moon Palace to become a fairy. "Who is the neighbor of Chang 'e? "In the eyes of a lonely hero, does Chang 'e, who lives alone in the Guanghan Palace and has no companion, have a similar situation and mood with himself? Therefore, I can't help thinking from the bottom of my heart: Chang 'e must regret stealing the elixir of life, so that she lives in the moon palace every year and night, facing the blue sea and blue sky, it is difficult to get rid of loneliness and cold. " Should regret "is a speculative word, which shows a feeling of being in the same boat and having a heart." Because of the description and rendering of the first two sentences, the word "should" seems natural and reasonable. Therefore, the last two sentences are not so much affectionate and considerate to Chang 'e's situation and mood as the lonely monologue of the protagonist. Who is the hero who lives in seclusion and stays out at night? There is no clear explanation in the poem. The poet once compared the female crown to "lonely in the moon" in the poem "Sending Palace Officials to Taoist Temple", and also used "stealing medicine" as a metaphor for women to learn Taoism and seek immortality in the poem "Sending Song Huayang sisters back on a moonlit night". Therefore, it may not be nonsense to say that this poem is an expression of sadness and loneliness on behalf of the female crown trapped in the palace. Taoism prevailed in the Tang dynasty, and women's entry into Taoism became the trend. After entering the Tao, they experienced the bondage of religious purity to normal love life, resulting in mental depression. Three or four sentences are a true portrayal of their situation and mood. However, the loneliness expressed in the poem and the emotion of "regretting stealing the elixir" caused by it are integrated into the poet's unique real life feelings and contain richer and deeper meanings. Surrounded by the dark and dirty reality, the poet tries to get rid of the secular world and pursue the lofty spiritual realm, which often makes him more lonely. The twin brothers of sublimity and loneliness, and the subtle and complicated psychology of self-worship and self-harm, unwillingness to change one's mind and obedience, unbearable loneliness, etc., are successfully expressed here by the poet in subtle and meaningful language. This is a kind of beauty with strong sadness, which is easy to cause a wide range of * * * songs among lofty scholars in the old days. The typical meaning of poetry is also here. Chang 'e, who lives alone without a companion, is the goddess in the lonely Taoist temple and a lofty and lonely poet. Although the immortals are separated and people's circumstances on earth are different, they are all connected with the points of sublimity and loneliness. The poet grasped this point and shaped the artistic image of the trinity. This skill of artistic generalization is Li Shangyin's specialty.