The author of "Farewell" is Wang Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
This is a poem about sending a friend off to seclusion. It uses a question-and-answer method to tell the reasons for retiring from the friend's mouth, and also expresses the poet's complex thoughts and feelings. The poet cares and cares for his friends. He not only comforts his friends but also expresses envy for his friends' secluded life, which shows that the poet is not very satisfied with his own reality.
The language of the whole poem seems plain and ordinary, but the last two sentences suddenly add poetic meaning. It can be said that the words are shallow and affectionate, and contain endless meanings.
Original text of "Farewell":
I got off my horse and drank your wine, and asked you where you were.
You are dissatisfied with your words, so you return to the south mountain frontier.
But don’t ask again when the white clouds are endless.
Wang Wei's "Farewell" uses the Zen method to write poetry, which is full of Zen master's ingenuity. Zen masters and disciples often fight with each other, often not speaking, but making some strange actions in order to achieve "heart-to-heart harmony". Even if one wants to convey the meaning of Zen, it is often through clever metaphors and metaphors, and the profound meaning is hidden in natural objects for the disciples to understand on their own.
Wang Wei absorbed this method of expressing deep meaning through intuition, suggestion, metaphor and symbol in his poetry creation. In this poem, he condensed and integrated the complex feelings of his inner world into the natural picture of "when the white clouds are endless", thus achieving the idea of ??"holding a flower and smiling, it is self-evident", and endless food for thought. artistic effect.