Pipa appreciation.
In this poem, the poet made great efforts to shape the female image of pipa, which profoundly reflected the tragic fate that the piano skills and artists were insulted and destroyed in feudal society, and expressed the feeling of "being down and out in the world". This poem begins with "seeing the guests off in autumn night" and "suddenly smelling the pipa", so it is called "seeking the sound", "asking", "moving the boat" and "meeting". After Making a Thousand Calls, the singer's performance is an echo and tortuous description of "half hidden and half present", which laid the foundation for the theme of "the end of the world". After that, the female pipa played music to reveal her inner world. First of all, it is the emotion in the atonal tone, then the string and the sound thinking, which tells all the "life failures" and "infinite things in my heart" and shows the ups and downs of pipa girls. Then, he went on to write down the story of the pipa girl: in those years, the pipa girl's skills were taught to be "good enough to wear", her appearance was "dressed as jealousy by Qiu Niang", and Kyoto teenagers were "unable to wrap their heads" and "I don't know a song of red yarn" However, as time goes on, dusk and dawn come and go, so in the end, I have to marry a businessman's wife. This description of resentment, admiration and crying complements her performance and singing above, and completes the shaping of the image of the pipa girl. Finally, I wrote the poet's emotional waves, excited about the fate of the pipa girl, and expressed the sigh of "why the ends of the earth meet", expressing mutual sympathy and mutual echo. Poetry is lively, step by step, dotted. Both of them emerge in an endless stream, which is also the theme. It is like a river, with ebb and flow, ups and downs. Repeated recitation is shocking and endless. The language is powerful and vivid; Like a sudden rain, like a whisper, the water burst its banks and the guns rang; Pearls fall into the jade plate to meet the bottom of the jade flower. It's like I heard it, right there.
The music description in Pipa Xing is really beautiful.
Poetry is the song of the soul, and song is the crystallization of poetry. Coleridge, an English poet, said, "A man without music in his soul can never be a real poet". On the other hand, we can also say, "A man without poetry in his soul will never be a real musician." Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty was a poet proficient in music. He can play the piano and sing. He is especially good at describing music and musical performances, and Pipa Xing, which is well known to all women and children, is a model for describing music. Bai Juyi described music in many ways in Pipa Xing. The first is to use metaphor (rhetoric): "The big string hums like rain, and the small string whispers like a secret. Humming and whispering-and then mixing them together is like pouring pearls, big and small, into a plate of jade. " Write the pitch, rhythm and melody of music in the form of pictures, giving people unlimited associations; The second is to use two-tone rhyming words (in terms of words): "noisy" and "sad", which can express the rhythm and rhythm of music. The third is to use the method of contrast (sound and silence) and the combination of static and dynamic. The fourth is to express music with emotions: for example, "every string is a kind of meditation, and every note is a kind of profound thinking, as if she were telling us the pain of her life." By expressing the depression of the mood, you can feel the deep chord sound. The fifth is to turn intangible music into tangible and visual, such as: "The big strings hum like rain, and the small strings whisper like a secret." "Deep throat springs are hard to flow under the ice", "silver bottles are broken in a flash" and "iron and horse weapons are thrown into each other". It's wonderful that the poet shows the abstract things figuratively and visually, and can distinguish the changes of tone and timbre. Bai Juyi's description of music in Pipa Xing reached a superb level.
Appreciation of Pipaxing's Music Description.
Pipa Xing and Han Yu's Listening to the Piano, as well as Li He's poem Li Ping, have been called "imitating sounds with words" by later generations. Its imitation sound is extremely beautiful at the moment. This paper attempts to analyze this part of music description. The first feature of sound description is that sound is imitated by sound and the image can be felt. In fact, it is difficult for readers to fully understand auditory things like music. It is not something that can be seen and touched, and it cannot be felt through vision and touch, which greatly limits the charm of words. But the author can find a new way to imitate sound with sound, and the music is wonderful, vivid and lively. The author first wrote that "big string" sounds like a shower, then wrote that "small string" sounds like a whisper, and then wrote that "it's like pouring large and small pearls into a plate of jade". The big string and the small string are mixed together, crisp and smooth. Out of the valley in time, orioles sing gently among the flowers. When it is astringent, it is ice that blocks the cold spring. At the climax, the silver bottle broke, the water slurry splashed, the fighter planes were dispatched, and the knives and guns roared. Each sound just shows the beauty of the pipa girl playing this instrument, which greatly enriches the expression ability of words and greatly expands the imagination and appreciation space of readers.