The whole poem is: The oil-walled incense carriage no longer meets, the gorge clouds leave no trace of the west and east. The moon melts in the pear blossom courtyard, and there is a gentle breeze in the catkins pond. After a few days of loneliness and drinking, I stopped smoking in a desolate manner. Why should I send the fish book? The water is far away and the mountains have the same advantages.
This is a love poem that expresses lovesickness after farewell. The first couplet narrates the scene of parting. The couple's jaws blend in with the scenery, recalling the beautiful life before the flowers and under the moon. The neck couplet narrates his lonely and desolate situation and reveals his plight after the lover left. The last couplet expresses the longing for the one you love.
Yan Shu's poem is called "Untitled". He imitates Li Shangyin's Untitled poem in style and uses implicit techniques to express his grief for farewell. In terms of expression, the poem hides the thoughts deep in the poem, expresses it through the language of scenery, and then injects a strong subjective color into the language of scenery, so that the poem appears to be confused and resentful. Different from Li Shangyin's poetic style, Yan Shu's poem is clear but not beautiful, and there are no allusions, so it presents an elegance and sparseness.
About the author
Yan Shu (991-1055), also known as Tongshu, was a famous lyricist, poet, and essayist. He was a native of Linchuan City, Fuzhou Prefecture in the Northern Song Dynasty (now Wengang, Jinxian County, Jiangxi Province). A native of Zhenshahe, located at the foot of Xiangnan Peak, his father was the first prime minister of Fuzhou Prefecture at that time. Yan Shu and his seventh son Yan Jidao (1037-1110) were known as "Dayan" and "Xiaoyan" in the poetry circles of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time.
Yan Shu's articles are rich in content and gorgeous in words, and are "followed by the world"; he also created tens of thousands of "elegant and sentimental" poems, and his poems have elegant interest and sentimental thoughts. Song Qi's "Notes" records: "Yan Xiangguo is a poet in this world. In the last years, there were more than 10,000 poems compiled, which was unprecedented since the Tang Dynasty.
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