Ambition-Wang Ji
Wang Ji
Donggao ① looks at dusk, and moves to rely on ② Where to rely on!
The trees are all in autumn colors, and the mountains are only covered with sunset.
Herdsmen drive calves back, hunting horses return with poultry.
We look at each other but don’t know each other, and we sing long songs to cherish Wei.
Notes
① Donggao: Gao, the land by the water. Wang Ji called the place where he farmed and traveled in his hometown Donggao. Dusk, when the sun is setting.
② Migration and leaning: still wandering and wandering.
③ "Changge" sentence: Wei, a fern herbaceous plant, its young leaves are edible. Perhaps the poetic meaning of this sentence is the author's association with the passage about "picking weeds" in the "Book of Songs", and the long song is used to express depression. Perhaps this sentence is poetic, that is, the long song "Caiwei Song" is written in memory of Boyi and Shuqi. Judging from the author's mentality and the context of the whole poem, the previous explanation is more relevant.
Commentary Analysis This poem describes the autumn scenery of the mountains and fields. The scenery is sentimental, simple, fresh, smooth and natural. It tries to correct the shortcomings of Qiliang's colorful and rigid poems. It is one of Wang Zhen's representative works.
The first couplet is narrative and lyrical, with the following six sentences in total. The first sentence casts a thin twilight on the middle scene of the two couplets of "Looking"; the second sentence calls out the last sentence, making the whole poem enveloped in a touch of sadness. The jaw couplet describes the quiet scene of the autumn field in the dusk, which is intertwined with each other. The mountains and trees are full of autumn colors and a touch of sunset. Depression and silence trigger the poet's feeling of hesitation and helplessness. The neck couplet depicts the moving scenery of the autumn wilderness, showing the scene of "shepherds driving calves back, hunting horses and poultry returning" on the background of mountains, trees, autumn colors and sunset. This scene is typical of the leisure time in the mountains and fields in autumn. Since it is "return" and "return", the movement from far to near is also vaguely visible. It would be great if these shepherds and hunters were old acquaintances and could "talk and laugh endlessly" with them (Tao Qian, "Migration")! However, this is not the case, which leads to the last couplet: "We look at each other without knowing each other", so we can only sing long songs to express our depression. Wang Ji admired Tao Qian, but he was not as able to get comfort from pastoral life as Tao Qian, so his pastoral poems showed hesitation and melancholy.
This poem washes away the extravagant carving and decoration habits of the Southern Dynasties, but develops the new form of martial arts that has gradually become rhythmic since Yongming of the Southern Qi Dynasty. It is already a relatively mature five-meter poem, which has a great influence on the form of modern poetry.