Li Bai’s famous line in "Wanglu Mountain Waterfall": The water flowing down three thousand feet is suspected to be the Milky Way falling from the sky.
In these two sentences, the poet uses exaggerated metaphors and romantic imagination to further describe the image and momentum of the waterfall. "Flying down three thousand feet", each stroke is swaying and every word is sonorous and powerful. The word "fly" describes the scene of the waterfall gushing out very vividly. The metaphor "It is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen into the sky" is exaggerated yet natural, novel yet true, which invigorates the entire article and makes the whole image more colorful, majestic and magnificent, leaving a deep impression on people. .
1. Full text
"Two Poems of Wanglu Mountain Waterfall·Part 2" (Li Bai, Tang Dynasty)
The sun shines on the incense burner and produces purple smoke, and you can see the waterfall hanging in front of the river in the distance. .
Flying down three thousand feet, it is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen into the sky.
2. Translation
Purple haze rises from Xianglu Peak under the sunlight. From a distance, you can see the waterfall hanging like white silk in front of the mountain.
The plummeting waterfall on the high cliff seems to be thousands of feet long, making people feel as if the Milky Way is falling from the sky to the earth.
3. Introduction to the author
Li Bai (701-762), also known as Taibai, also known as Qinglian Jushi, also known as "Exiled Immortal", was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty. , was hailed as the "Immortal of Poetry" by later generations, and was called "Li Du" together with Du Fu. He is cheerful and generous, loves drinking, writing poetry, and making friends.
Li Bai's poetic style is majestic and bold, with rich imagination, natural language flow, and harmonious and changeable rhythms. He is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature, art, myths and legends, forming his unique magnificent colors and reaching his peak. The pinnacle of Tang poetry art. There are more than a thousand poems and articles in existence, including 30 volumes of "Li Taibai Collection".
His representative works include "Looking at the Lushan Waterfall", "The Difficult Journey", "The Difficult Road to Shu", "About to Enter the Wine", "Yin of Liang Fu", "Early Departure from Baidi City" and many others.