In the spring of six years, I sent eight poems (the second one).
Found three or four pages of old books, rows of high and low, wide and narrow. Talk to yourself and eat some ordinary things, but it's a long way to go.
In July of the 4th year of Yuanhe (809), Yuan Zhen's original wife Wei Cong died at the age of 27. After Wei Cong's death, the poet wrote many sincere mourning poems. "Mourning in the Spring of Six Years" is the second in a series of mourning poems he wrote in Yuanhe in the spring of six years, with eight original poems.
The first two sentences say that one day when I was cleaning up old things, I found some pages of stationery that my wife gave me before she died. The words on the letter are high and low, uneven, wide and asymmetrical, and can only be barely done. But this handwriting is familiar and kind to the poet.
What you see and the people you think of will naturally arouse the poet's deep memories of past lives and emerge the simple and honest face of his dead wife. These two sentences describe the truth without modification, but they show kindness and sadness.
Describe the contents of "old books" in three or four sentences. The letter said that due to the difficulties of life, it is often inevitable to live a life of "eating together" and cooking (only eating one day for two days). However, this kind of poor life is used to it, and it is also ordinary, and there is no feeling.
I miss you deeply in my heart, a person who travels far away. I'm worried that you are overworked on the road in the deep mountains and your diet is not adjusted. Don't be exhausted. The content of the letter is naturally far more than that, but these words relayed by the poet are undoubtedly the most embarrassing to him.
In that old book, I said that I would eat and cook. I was afraid that my husband would be worried and uneasy about her poor life, so I said it was just a "normal thing" in an understatement. Although these words are plain and casual, they not only show her noble character of "we have to pick wild vegetables for dinner", but also convey her thoughtfulness.
It doesn't seem worth mentioning that you "eat together", but your husband who is far away in the mountains and forests is really worrying. Really deep love is often so simple and selfless.
The poet wrote this group of poems because he offended eunuchs, so he was demoted to Cao Jiangling to join the army. When he needed spiritual support, he occasionally looked up old books and relived the care and consideration his dead wife gave him in the hard life in the past. Can he not feel sad when he thinks of the lonely and helpless situation now? Mourning poem is a kind of poetry genre with emotion as the main part, which touches people's hearts with deep feelings.
This poem entitled "Mourning" does not directly express the feelings of mourning for his dead wife. It's all narrative, and it's a very common and trivial thing in daily life: I rummaged through a few pages of stationery written by my dead wife before her death and saw some words about daily life written on the letter. When the story is finished, the poem stops, and there are no words to express feelings.
However, the reader feels the poet's deep affection for his dead wife from this seemingly objective and plain narrative. The key reason is that although the things described by the poet are trivial, they are quite typical of Wei Cong's character and quality, reflecting the relationship between their husband and wife, and naturally there is no need to add more words.
Yuan Zhen's poems are unpretentious, and other poems are often mixed with artistic advantages and disadvantages. But as far as this poem is concerned, this simple style fully conforms to the content and feelings expressed in the poem. Mourning poems are stricter than any other poems in the sincerity of feelings, so there is no room for falsehood.
Gorgeous carving often hurts the truth, while simplicity is a good form to express the true feelings. Especially when simplicity is combined with simplicity and affection, such poems are actually unified in simplicity. Lu Xun's "secret" of sketching-"be sincere, whitewash, put on airs less, don't show off" seems to be particularly suitable for mourning poems.
In the spring of six years, I sent eight poems (the fifth).
After drinking with guests for a long time, you get drunk when you take advantage. When I wake up, others cry, and I always ask you the wrong questions when I am drunk!
Yuan Zhen had sincere and persistent love for his dead wife Wei Cong. This song "accompanying customers to sell sorrow" is deeply touching to read. The first sentence describes the poet's depression in the pain of losing his wife, drinking all day to drown his sorrows. On the surface, it is to accompany the guests, but in fact, it is a kind-hearted guest who deliberately pulls him as a companion to drink in order to relieve his deep worries.
Besides, as a "guest", it is always bad to show your children's feelings in front of guests, and it is inevitable to pretend to smile. How can you be so worried about wine? In this long and boring drinking, he drank his own tears. "Wine becomes sorrow, acacia becomes tears", which tells the bitterness in my heart. The beauty of the second sentence lies in the word "accidental whim"
This "xing" can not be simply regarded as the "xing" of "happiness", but an occasional passionate note in a gloomy movement, which is a sudden beating of emotion. Over the banquet, the guests tried their best to enlighten him, but the poet felt sorry for it for a while and poured a glass of wine, which made him drunk. It can be seen that the word "xing" has been dissolved into the guest's good intentions and the poet's sad tears.
"Accidental" people don't often say that they are "drunk", which proves that the last sentence of "drinking for a long time" actually drinks very little, but it's just to drown their sorrows, and it can even be said that they are "drunk first and then drink", which shows that sad people have no arms.
The last two sentences are really blood and tears. Reading this point in the poem, can the lover cry without covering it! It is natural to tell the truth after being drunk; It's strange to wake up and see others sobbing. I didn't know until I asked, but I forgot that my beloved wife had left me in my drunkenness and had been calling her! Sad state, bitter feeling, touching. The sonnet is a deep song.
There are seven affectionate songs in this poem: mourning for the dead, it should be the poet himself who shed tears; Now I just don't write my own sad tears, but write others' tears and see my sadness from others' tears. This is one of the deep songs. It is the second deep song to temporarily forget the pain of losing a wife in drunkenness and write down the grief that will never be forgotten.
Missing your dead wife, don't write a word, just write from drunken words; And don't write drunken words, just write the word "wrong topic", which is the third deep song. Looking for Yi in "A Drunken Man's Drinks" shows the infinite emptiness of "Feeling Nowhere to Seek", which is the fourth affectionate song.
I poured a cup on impulse, but it attracted a sigh. The clever use of contrast techniques achieved a strong touching effect, which was the fifth affectionate song. "Ask You Wrong Questions from Time to Time" reproduces the scene that the husband and wife are inseparable, the poet can't live without his wife for a moment, and the scene of "Mu Ding He sells wine and gold hairpin" ("Mourning for the Past") is just around the corner. This is the sixth deep song.
The appearance of being down and out after being drunk, and the state of waking up, a word is also faintly visible, which is the seventh deep song. A small poem, so tortuous, euphemistic and moving, is extremely rare.