Wang Lushan Waterfall is a seven-character quatrain, a landscape poem written by Li Bai when he visited Lushan Mountain. This poem captures the dynamic beauty of the waterfall and reproduces the magnificence of Lushan Waterfall by using rhetorical devices such as metaphor and exaggeration.
Original text:
Wanglushan Waterfall
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
The purple mist is illuminated by sunlight, and the waterfall hangs in front of the mountain.
On the high cliff, it seems to be thousands of feet high, which makes people think that the Milky Way has fallen from heaven to earth.
Translation:
The censer peak gives birth to a purple mist under the sunlight, and from a distance, a waterfall hangs in front of the mountain like white satin. There seem to be several waterfalls in thousands of feet on the high cliff, which makes people think that the Milky Way has fallen from the sky to the ground.
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This is a landscape poem written by the poet Li Bai when he lived in seclusion in Lushan Mountain at the age of about fifty. The first sentence is "Purple smoke from the Rizhao incense burner". "Incense burner" refers to the incense burner peak of Lushan Mountain. This peak is in the northwest of Lushan Mountain, with a sharp and round shape, like a censer.
Because of the waterfall, water vapor transpiration, in the bright sunshine, as if there is an indomitable spirit incense burner, purple smoke rises in Ran Ran. A word "life" brings the scene of smoke rising to life.
This sentence set a magnificent background for the waterfall, and also rendered the atmosphere for the following direct description of the waterfall. The second sentence is "overlooking a thousand waterfalls in Sichuan". The word "overlooking the waterfall" takes care of the title "overlooking the Lushan waterfall".
"Hanging thousands of rivers" means that the waterfall is like a huge white practice, hanging straight from the cliff to the river ahead. The word "hang" changed from dynamic to static, and Visha wrote about the waterfall in the distance.
The first two sentences of the poem outline a panoramic view from the big picture: purple smoke fills the air at the top of the mountain, white practice hangs in the mountain, and rapids rush down the mountain, forming a magnificent picture.
The third sentence "Flying down three thousands of feet" is a detailed description of the waterfall at close range. "Flying Flow" shows that waterfalls come out in the air and spew out. "Straight down" not only describes the steepness of the rock wall, but also describes the rapidity of the water flow. "Three thousands of feet" is an exaggeration, describing the towering mountains.
In this way, the poet felt that the majestic momentum of the waterfall had not been fully displayed, so he went on to write a sentence, "It is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days." It is said that this waterfall "flew down", which makes people suspect that the Milky Way poured down from nine days.
A "doubt" is ethereal and lively. If it is true, it makes people daydream, which adds to the magical color of the waterfall. Li Bai is a master of positive romanticism. This poem shows his bold spirit, passionate patriotic enthusiasm and elegant talent.
The poet actively and romantically mobilized artistic techniques such as imagination, exaggeration and metaphor, highlighted the diversity and magnificence of the first waterfall in Lushan Mountain, and portrayed the waterfall as a unique artistic image.
The poem is in harmony with the scenery. The momentum of Lushan Waterfall "flying down" is full of the poet's high-spirited thoughts and his deep feelings for the splendid mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poet's rich and unique imagination makes the whole poem full of romance.
The poet also mobilized rhetorical devices such as setting off, exaggeration and contrast to make the whole poem fly naturally. Su Dongpo appreciates this poem very much, saying that "the emperor sent the Milky Way to fall into the pulse, and there were fallen immortals in ancient times."
The author introduces:
Li Bai (70 1-762) was a great romantic poet in Tang Dynasty, and he was also called "Poet Fairy" and "Du Li" with Du Fu.
In order to distinguish Li Shangyin and Du Mu from "Little Du Li", Du Fu and Li Bai are also called "Big Du Li". He is cheerful and generous, loves to drink and write poems, and likes to make friends.
Li Bai was deeply influenced by Huang Lao's idea of sorting out villages. Li Taibai's poems have been handed down from generation to generation, and most of his poems were written when he was drunk. His representative works include Looking at Lushan Waterfall, it is hard to go, Difficult Road to Shu, Entering Wine, Liang, First Sending Baidicheng, etc.
There are biographies of Li Bai's Ci and Fu in the Song Dynasty (such as Wen Ying's Xiang Ji). As far as its pioneering significance and artistic achievements are concerned, Li Bai's Ci Fu enjoys a high status.
In the second year of Shangyuan (76 1), Li Bai, who was in his early sixties, returned to Jinling due to illness. In Jinling, his life was rather embarrassing, so he had to go to his uncle Li, who was the county magistrate of dangtu county.
In the third year of Shang Yuan (762), Li Bai was seriously ill. He gave the manuscript to Li before he died, and he died.