First, "Looking at Lushan Waterfall"
1, original:
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.
2. Translation:
The sun shone on the incense burner peak, and plumes of purple clouds rose. From a distance, the waterfall hangs down from the peak, like a white practice. The water rushed down, three times that of thousands of feet, as if the Milky Way had fallen from the sky.
3. Appreciate:
This poem was written by Li Bai when he visited Lushan Mountain, describing the spectacular waterfall scene on the incense burner peak of Lushan Mountain. The poet compares the waterfall with the incense burner and the Milky Way with exaggeration and metaphor, which vividly shows the height, danger, strangeness and mystery of the waterfall. Adjectives and adverbs are not used in the poem, but readers can feel the momentum and charm of the waterfall through dynamic pictures and sounds.
Second, "quiet night thinking"
1, original:
The foot of my bed is shining so brightly. Is there frost already? I looked up at the moon and looked down, feeling nostalgic.
2. Translation:
The bright moonlight shone through the window in front of the bed, as if the ground was frosted. I looked up at the bright moon and bowed my head to miss my hometown far away.
3. Appreciate:
This poem was written by Li Bai when he was in a foreign country, which expressed his yearning for his hometown. The poet wrote a quiet and deep night and a lonely and sad mood in simple and plain language. The application of antithesis, parallelism, personification and other techniques in the poem makes the poem concise, fluent and full of rhythmic beauty. This poem is one of Li Bai's most famous poems and one of China's most widely circulated works.
Third, "Early Baidu City"
1, original:
Early in the morning, I bid farewell to Jiangling city, which is high into the sky, thousands of miles away, and the boat is only one day away. The cries of apes on both sides of the strait are still unconsciously crowing in their ears, and the canoe has passed the heavy green hills.
2. Translation:
In the morning, I bid farewell to the colorful clouds in Baidi City and rushed back to Jiangling thousands of miles away in one day. Apes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait kept barking, and my canoe had crossed the overlapping mountains.
3. Appreciate:
This poem was written by Li Bai when Xuanzong fled in the Tang Dynasty, which showed his desire to return to Jiangling. The poet used exaggerated and anthropomorphic methods to describe the magnificent scenery and steep terrain of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. In the poem, figures such as "a thousand miles" and "a day" are used to express the distance of travel and the urgency of time, which highlights the poet's rapidity in sailing. This poem expresses the poet's anxiety about the current situation through the description of the scenery and the rendering of the sound.
Fourth, The Farewell of the Yellow Crane Tower Meng Haoran on his way to Yangzhou.
1, original:
Old friends frequently waved to me, bid farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower, and traveled to Yangzhou in this beautiful spring filled with catkins and flowers. My friend's sail shadow faded away and disappeared at the end of the blue sky, only seeing the first line of the Yangtze River and heading for the distant horizon.
2. Translation:
An old friend said goodbye to the Yellow Crane Tower and went west, and came to Yangzhou City in March. The lonely sail shadow gradually disappeared in the blue sky, only to see the Yangtze River flowing to the horizon.
3. Appreciate:
This poem was written by Li Bai when he sent his good friend Meng Haoran away to Guangling, expressing his loneliness and helplessness after his good friend left. Poets use antithesis and personification to write the Yellow Crane Tower, solitary sails and other scenery, and set off their feelings with their friends. Instead of using adjectives and adverbs, the poem creates an ethereal and distant artistic conception through the combination of motion and static.