There are twenty poems * * * in Drinking, which is a famous group of poems by Tao Yuanming. This poem is the fifth of them. The main purpose of the poem is to express the poet's thinking process of understanding the true meaning by using the metaphysical theory of Wei and Jin Dynasties, and to reflect the poet's interest and feelings in his early days of returning to the fields.
This poem is vivid in image, with a distant realm, and also contains some philosophies of cosmic life. Metaphysical terms such as true meaning and forgetting words are used in the poem to make it more interesting.
Some poems are partial comparisons, and some are overall image comparisons, just like poems describing objects in later generations; Xing is xing, that is, taking other things as the starting point of poetry to arouse the content to be praised. Some xing has the dual functions of origin and metaphor, so the word bi xing is often used together to refer to the meaning of poetry.
Poetic artistic conception
Tao Yuanming's talk about detachment is limited to his personal spirit or state of mind, that is, the so-called telepathy. He believes that in order to protect his mind from the pollution of the world and the noise of horses and chariots, he must make up his mind to give up the pursuit of fame and fortune, return to the countryside and live a life of farming.
This is the only way to get rid of the bondage of secular spirit and liberate the mind. And if people's state of mind can be purified to be as pure, harmonious and simple as nature, it will reach the most ideal spiritual realm, that is, the extreme of far-reaching mind. Picking four chrysanthemums is an artistic realm in which the mind is far from reaching the extreme.
It shows readers that people's subjective mental state is truly integrated with the objective environment of nature, and people's spirit is completely freed from the fatigue of the world. The poet picked chrysanthemums under the east hedge. Although his figure belongs to the real world, his mood at that time was leisurely and harmonious with nature.