The source of this poem is "Sitting alone in Jingting Mountain" and the author is Li Bai.
Original text:
The birds flew without a trace, leaving the lonely clouds free and unfettered.
You look at me, I look at you, and there are only my eyes and Jingting Mountain's eyes.
Translation:
Birds fly high without a shadow, and lonely clouds go alone for fun.
We looked at each other and felt unsatisfied. Only Jingting Mountain and I were in front of us.
Precautions:
Jingting Mountain: In the north of Xuancheng City, Anhui Province.
Lonely Cloud: Tao Yuanming's Poem for Helping the Poor contains the phrase "Lonely Cloud alone".
Go for leisure alone: go alone, go alone. Idle, describe the clouds floating around, carefree appearance. Lonely clouds are floating around.
Never tire of seeing two things: the poet and Jingting Mountain. Tired and satisfied.
About the author:
Li Bai (70 1-762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "poetic immortal" and is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is magnificent and bold, the imagination is rich, the language flows naturally, the melody is harmonious and changeable, and it is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, which constitutes its unique magnificent and gorgeous color and reaches the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.
Creative background:
This poem was written in Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (744), a year after Li Bai's political career was frustrated. Zhan E's Chronicle of Li Bai's Poems was written in the 12th year of Tianbao (753), and it is considered that it was written before and after Deng Jingting's visit to the south of the mountain and his nostalgia for Dou Zhushu. In the twelfth year of Tianbao, Li Bai went south to Xuancheng. Before the trip, there was a poem "To send my brother Xuanzhou to be the satrap of Zhao Shi", saying, "The second assistant is Xuancheng County, and the officer is at leisure. Chang Zan Yun Yue invited me to worship Tingshan. " Li Bai has been wandering for a long time since he was released from the Hanlin ten years ago. The long-term wandering life made Li Bai taste the bitterness of the world and see through the coldness of the world, thus deepening his dissatisfaction with reality and increasing his sense of loneliness. However, his arrogance and stubbornness remain the same as before. I have been depressed because I have no talent. Physical and mental fatigue needs comfort. During this period, he wrote a lot of poems to relieve his depression by wandering around immortals and drinking, and also wrote a lot of poems to express his feelings and feelings. Sitting alone in Jingting Mountain is one of them.
Appreciate:
The first two lines of this poem, "Birds fly high, and lonely clouds go to leisure alone", seem to describe the scene in front of us, but in fact they have written all the sad feelings: several birds fly high in the sky until they disappear; There is still a white cloud in the vast sky, but I don't want to stay and drift away slowly, as if everything in the world is rejecting poets. The words "exhausted" and "doing nothing" lead readers to a realm of "peace": it seems that after eliminating the noise of a mountain bird, it feels particularly peaceful; After the rolling thick clouds disappear, I feel particularly quiet and calm, which means disappearing and slowly disappearing into the sky. Leisure is mainly to express leisure, and it is to use the leisure of lonely clouds to set off the leisure of the author's mood. There is an artistic contrast between these two words and "independence". Mainly for the writer to sit alone at the moment and feel carefree, which is in line with Li Bai's own immortal thought.
The images of these two sentences are juxtaposed in the form of "the stars arch the moon". The central word "bird" in the previous sentence is the central image, and the word "fly" is added to form a compound image, which strengthens the dynamic expression meaning. Birds can remind readers of the quiet and peaceful scene in the mountains. Birds are singing euphemistically in the empty mountains, which makes them interesting. At present, birds fly high and get farther and farther away from people. The word "Gao" has played a role in expanding space. Looking up, in the empty blue sky, birds are flying away until they are out of sight. The word "gold" enhances the expressive force of this sentence and shows Li Bai's melancholy at this time. The last sentence "cloud" is the central word, which is compounded with "go", and the silent cloud is drifting away. And clouds are not all over the sky, just "solitary clouds" without companions, just drifting away leisurely and slowly. The poet used "leisure" to write the state of the solitary cloud, highlighting the process of leaving, so that readers can feel the poet's inner pain and helplessness when they taste the state of the solitary cloud leaving.
So these two sentences are written as "dynamic" to see "static", and "static" is defined by "dynamic". This "quietness" reflects the loneliness and loneliness of the poet's mind. This vivid writing can give readers association, and imply that the poet has been visiting Jingting Mountain for a long time, outlining his image of "sitting alone" and paving the way for the next couplet "never tired of looking at each other".
Three or four sentences, "Never tire of seeing it, only Jingting Mountain", personify Jingting Mountain in a romantic way. Although the bird flew away, the poet didn't go back, and he didn't want to go back. He stared at the quiet and beautiful Jingting Mountain for a long time and felt that Jingting Mountain seemed to be looking at himself affectionately. There is no need to say anything between them, and they have reached emotional communication. "Never tire of looking at each other" expresses the deep feelings between the poet and Jingting Mountain. "Xiang" and "Liang" are synonymous, which closely connects the poet with Jingting Mountain and shows strong feelings. At the same time, Looking at each other also points out that at this moment, only the lonely scene of "mountain" and "me" is as important as the word "two", and the interdependence between mountains and people arises spontaneously. The word "only" in the conclusion is also tempered, which highlights the poet's love for Jingting Mountain. "It's enough to have a bosom friend in life", and the bird flying away is nothing to the poet. The artistic conception created by these two poems is still "quiet". On the surface, it is written that the poet looks at Jingting Mountain with deep affection. In fact, the more poets write about the "sentimentality" of mountains, the more they show people's "ruthlessness"; And his lonely and desolate situation is revealed in this quiet scene.