"Travel and Inn without Good Companion" comes from the complete collection of Three Hundred Tang Poems, and its author is Du Mu, a litterateur of the Tang Dynasty. The full text of the ancient poem is as follows:
There is no good company in the hotel, and the love will be quiet.
The cold lamp reminds me of old things, and the broken goose alarms melancholy to sleep.
The distant dream returns to invade the dawn, and the letter from home arrives the following year.
The Cangjiang River is full of smoke and moonlight, and the door is a fishing boat.
Foreword
"Traveler" is a song about traveling and nostalgia. The poet has been away from home for a long time, living in a hotel with no close friends, and it is difficult to deliver letters home. He can't help but miss his hometown in the desolate night. The poem expresses his loneliness and melancholy mood and his deep longing for his hometown. The whole poem is implicit, desolate and sad, with rigorous structure and profound artistic conception.
Notes
①Good companion: good friend. Ningqing: Concentrate and meditate. Self: alone. Quietly: Sad look. Here is the meaning of melancholy.
②Concentrating on contemplation: concentrating on meditation.
③Quietly: Sad look.
④Cold lamp: dim and cold light. This refers to leaning under the cold lamp.
⑤Think about the past: Think about the past.
⑥Duanyan: Guanyan. A lost goose. This is the call of a lost goose.
⑦Police: Awakened by the sound of wild geese.
⑧Returning from a distant dream: It means that the dream of returning home is when the dream reaches dawn. The dream of returning home is also far away, and the dream of returning home is also very short. It will arrive every year after the next sentence of the letter from home. , I hate that as time goes by, I become more troubled. Dawn: Breaking of dawn.
⑨Cangjiang: refers to the river in general.
⑩Good Smoke Moon: refers to the beautiful scenery in early spring.
Translation
There are no good friends to keep you company in the hotel, so I am alone in meditation. Reminiscing about the old days under the cold lamp, I was awakened by the whine of the lone goose and found it difficult to fall asleep. I dreamed that the journey back to my hometown was long and it was already dawn when I got home. It would be a year before the letter from home arrived. There was beautiful smoke and moonlight on the Cangjiang River, and there were people fishing in small boats in front of the door.
Appreciation
The first couplet directly breaks the topic and points out the situation. The feeling of homesickness coming from the traveler is like a roaring wave rushing through the ravine, splitting through the air. As you can imagine, being away from home for a long time, alone in a foreign land, with no close friends, and letters from home not arriving until another year. At this time, facing the cold lamp, a strong and deep homesickness arises spontaneously. Can you not fall into deep melancholy? "Quietly" is the best portrayal of the expression and attitude of the lyrical protagonist in this place, this situation, this scene: quiet in front of the cold lamp, focused on solitude, dejected and sad, which expresses the poet's longing to the extreme.
The couplet is the embodiment of the first couplet of "condensing feelings in silence". The poet blends his feelings into the scenery, and the lonely lamp accompanies the lonely guest on the cold night. He misses the past events of his hometown, and the lonely geese chirp when they are traveling. People are deeply sad and unable to sleep, and they carefully paint a picture of a lonely guest homesick on a cold night. The characters "Si" and "Jing" are very rich in character-refining skills. The lamp cannot be used to think, but it makes me worry about old things in the cold night. Especially things, how can people be embarrassed! From the lamp to the person, it is obvious that the intention is not the object but the person. The word "police" is also very emotional. The traveler's solitary lamp makes it difficult to sleep for a long night, and the cry of a wild goose makes the solitary traveler think deeply and startle her with dreams, making it difficult for her to return home.
The neck couplet uses imaginary words, combines the virtual and the real, and has a unique imagination. It expresses the poet's resentment in this moment, place, situation, and scene due to unbearable sorrow and hopelessness of returning home. My hometown is thousands of miles away, and we can only see each other in dreams. It may be a short dream, or it may be a long dream, but when I wake up from the dream, it is already dawn. Between the lines, there is a secret resentment that dreams are short but love is long. And all this is due to the actual situation of "letters home until the next year". As a transition from describing scenery to expressing emotions, the poem uses dreams to describe the sorrow and sadness of the travels. It is both virtual and real, realistic in the virtual, and the real in the virtual makes people feel soul-stirring when reading.
The tail is combined and gathered together powerfully, but it does not express the heart directly, but uses imaginary words to outline the beautiful life picture of the hometown, blending feelings into the scenery, using the scenery to express emotions, and integrating the strong feeling of nostalgia into the hometown Among the beautiful scenery. The Cangjiang River is hazy, the clouds are dimming, the moon is melting, and a fishing boat is tied outside the door of the house. It is a beautiful, quiet and peaceful scenery of my hometown. Although there are no characters in the picture, a fishing boat quietly tied outside the house evokes rich associations. Faced with such a beautiful picture of his hometown, who would not dream about it, let alone a poet who is traveling abroad! The hometown is thousands of miles away, and it is difficult for travelers to return home. Such beautiful scenery of hometown not only did not comfort the poet, but deepened the poet's homesickness. This is a typical example of using music scenes to contrast sadness. The beautiful scenery is meditative, the homesickness is resentful, and it is truly desolate. Except for the person in it, it is difficult for anyone to understand the truth deeply. However, "Smoke and Moon" is actually a metaphor here, and it does not necessarily mean "smoke" or "moon".
As the saying goes, the image of a literary work is greater than the thought. Here, a "smoky moon" can trigger different travelers to produce different image associations, thus producing a strong artistic appeal