Living in a remote village, I can't afford to lie down I don't feel sorry for my situation, but I still want to defend the frontier for my country. Late at night, I lay in bed, heard the sound of wind and rain, and dreamed that I was riding an armored war horse, crossing the frozen river and heading for the northern battlefield.
Whole poem:
Lu You's Two Storms on November 4th
It's getting dark, and the wind has rolled up the rain on the rivers and lakes, splashing all over the mountains like huge waves.
The small fire and the felt wrapped around it are so warm that neither my cat nor I want to go out.
I lay sprawled in my lonely country, not feeling sad about my situation, but thinking about defending the frontier of the country.
The night will be over, I lie in bed listening to the sound of wind and rain, in a daze in my dream, riding an armored horse across the frozen river to the northern battlefield.
Creative background:
This poem was written in 1 192 1 1 4th of the month (the third year of Shao Xi in Song Guangzong). Lu You retired to his hometown of Yin Shan in the 16th year of Xichun (A.D. 1 189). At that time, the poet was 68 years old. Although he is old, his strong desire to recover the country cannot be realized in reality. So, on a stormy night, he touched the scene, thought emotionally, and realized his desire to gallop across the Central Plains in his dream.
Appreciate:
This is almost seventy years old? Lu You wrote a patriotic poem with boiling blood on a stormy cold night, supporting his aging body and lying in a cold quilt.
The first two sentences of this poem directly express the poet's own feelings. "Sleeping stiff" tells the poet's old feelings, while "lonely village" shows a state of isolation, which is extremely "stiff" and "lonely". Why not "feel sorry for yourself"? Because the poet's passion for patriotism has reached the level of selflessness, he no longer pays attention to personal health and living environment, but has the spirit of "thinking for the country and guarding the wheel platform". However, he doesn't know that the reality is cruel and independent of human will. All he can do is "think". 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 the deepening of the first two sentences, which are vividly written around the word "dream" The poet's concern for national affairs led to the dream of a military campaign, which reappeared his ambition of "guarding the wheel platform" in the form of a dream. Dreaming reflects the sadness of political reality: the poet's desire to serve the country was rejected, and he could not kill the enemy. His feelings of protecting the enemy could only be reflected in his dreams. However, the poet "has no self-pity", but his heart of serving the country and killing the enemy is even stronger. I think about it every day and dream every night. Therefore, the dream of "Tiema Glacier" fully shows the poet's strong patriotic thoughts and feelings.