Quatrain·Two orioles singing the green willows
Author: Du Fu
Two orioles singing the green willows, and a row of egrets ascending to the blue sky.
The window contains Qianqiu snow of Xiling, and the door is docked with a ship thousands of miles away from Dongwu.
Translation
Two orioles sang in the sky,
A row of egrets flew in the sky.
You can see the snow that has not melted for thousands of years in Xiling from the window.
There are ships sailing from Dongwu thousands of miles away from Dongwu moored at the door.
Appreciation
This poem depicts four independent scenery, creating a vibrant picture. The poet is intoxicated with it, looking at the ships from Soochow, unconsciously hooked. When homesickness arises, the delicate inner activities naturally reveal themselves.
The poem begins with a vibrant natural beauty, creating a fresh and relaxed atmosphere. In these two sentences, the poet describes the beautiful scenery in detail from different angles. Emerald is fresh green, the color of everything that comes to life in early spring when it comes to life. Pronounced as "ming", the oriole's cry gives people a crisp and pleasant feeling. In early spring, pairs of orioles sing joyfully on the willow branches where the buds are beginning to sprout, creating a lively and festive scene. The orioles sit on the willows and sing, which is a sign of vitality in silence. The next sentence uses a more obvious momentum to describe the vitality of nature: the sky is clear and green, and the egrets are flying in this fresh sky, This is not only a kind of free and comfortable comfort, but also a kind of upward striving. The use of the word "up" here is very clever. These two sentences use "yellow" to contrast "emerald" and "white" to contrast "green". The bright colors bring out the vitality of early spring. Two sentences also mention the cry of orioles. The poet depicts this vibrant and colorful early spring image from two perspectives: visual and auditory. This vivid and colorful technique also adds to the vitality of the poem. Furthermore, the first sentence describes the orioles sitting on the willows and singing, and the second sentence writes the egrets flying into the sky. The space is much wider. From bottom to top, from near to far, the poet can see and feel everything. The whole environment is filled with vitality, which shows the vitality of early spring from another angle.