Original poem:
Overnight temple
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
The tall buildings of the temple on the mountain are really high, like a hundred feet. People upstairs are like a hand that can pick off the stars in the sky.
Standing here, I dare not speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in the sky.
Explanation:
The high-rise building of the temple on the mountain is really high, it seems to be 100 feet. People upstairs seem to be able to pick off the stars in the sky with one hand.
Standing here, I dare not speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in the sky.
Stay overnight. Dangerous building: a tall building, referring to the temple at the top of the mountain. Danger: high. 100 feet: Fictional, not real. The buildings here are very high. Stars: Stars in the sky.
Extended data
This poem depicts the towering buildings in the temple in an extremely exaggerated way, expressing the poet's wonder at the engineering art of ancient temples and his yearning and pursuit for the immortal life. The language of the whole poem is simple and natural, the imagination is magnificent, and the exaggeration is clever and vivid.
The language of this poem is natural and simple, but the image is realistic. There are no uncommon words in the whole poem, but the words are amazing, which can be called a peerless masterpiece. With the help of bold imagination, the poet exaggerates the height of the mountain temple and vividly depicts the towering mountain temple and the fear at night, thus presenting readers with a magnificent building that is almost unimaginable.
Li Bai's poetic style is bold and vigorous, his imagination is extremely rich, his language is naturally euphemistic, his temperament is changeable and harmonious, and he is full of romanticism. With only a few strokes, this poem vividly shows people's joy, boldness, loveliness and frankness at heights.
The poet's achievements:
Li Bai has made great achievements in many aspects of poetic art. He inherited and developed the romantic literary tradition since Qu Yuan and Zhuangzi, took idealism, rebellious spirit and heroism as the basis of romantic spirit, and creatively used a variety of romantic creative techniques. When he expresses his feelings in his poems, he is frank and straightforward, and the composition of his poems is ups and downs.
His works are rich in fantastic imagination, bold personification and amazing extreme exaggeration, which combine fantasy, exaggeration and myths and legends into one furnace and form a magnificent and peculiar artistic realm. His masterpieces, such as Difficult Travel in Shu, Climbing Mount Tianmu in a Dream, and The Ballad of Lu Shan's Sending Lv's Royal Boat, can best reflect the above characteristics.
Li Bai perfectly combined the "ideal" and "rebellious" spirit in China's ancient poems, and pushed romantic poetry to a peak.
He made outstanding contributions to the development and popularization of Tang poetry with a large number of poems with rich content and perfect form. His works have exerted great influence on writers such as Han Yu, Li He and Du Mu in Tang Dynasty, Su Shunqin, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Lu You and Xin Qiji in Song Dynasty, Gao Qi and Yang Shen in Ming Dynasty, Wei Yuan and Gong Zizhen in Qing Dynasty.