-Li Bai's Sitting Alone in Jingting Mountain
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Jingting Mountain: In the north of Xuancheng City, Anhui Province.
Everyone: No more.
Lonely Cloud: Tao Yuanming's Poem for Helping the Poor contains the phrase "Lonely Cloud alone".
Go for leisure alone: go alone, go alone.
Leisure: It describes traveling everywhere and being carefree. Lonely clouds are floating around.
Never tire of seeing two things: the poet and Jingting Mountain.
Tired: satisfied.
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This poem is a masterpiece of the poet to express his spiritual world. On the surface, this poem describes a person's interest in traveling in Jingting Mountain, but its deep meaning is the poet's loneliness all his life. With his peculiar imagination and ingenious conception, the poet gave life to the landscape and personified Jingting Mountain, which was very vivid. The author writes about his loneliness and his lack of talent, but he is more determined and seeks comfort and sustenance in nature.
The first two sentences mean that birds fly high without a trace, and lonely clouds are leisurely alone. It seems that I wrote the scene in front of me, but actually I wrote the feeling of loneliness: several birds in the sky flew away until they disappeared; There is still a white cloud in the vast sky, but I don't want to stay and drift away slowly, as if everything in the world is rejecting poets. The words "tired" and "idle" bring readers into a state of peace: it seems that after eliminating the noise of a mountain bird, it feels particularly quiet; After the thick rolling clouds disappeared, I felt particularly quiet. Therefore, these two sentences are "dynamic" and "static", and "dynamic" is used to set off "static", which is a foil to the poet's spiritual loneliness. This vivid writing can give readers association, and imply that the poet has been visiting Jingting Mountain for a long time, and outline the image of him sitting alone fascinated, paving the way for the next couplet.
Three or four sentences, "Never tire of seeing it, only Jingting Mountain", personify Jingting Mountain in a romantic way. Although the bird flew away, the poet didn't go back, and he didn't want to go back. He stared at the quiet and beautiful Jingting Mountain for a long time and felt that Jingting Mountain seemed to be looking at himself affectionately. There is no need to say anything between them, and they have reached emotional communication. "Never tire of looking at each other" expresses the deep feelings between the poet and Jingting Mountain. "Xiang" and "Liang" are synonymous, which closely connects the poet with Jingting Mountain and shows strong feelings. At the same time, Looking at each other also points out that at this moment, only the lonely scene of "mountain" and "me" is as important as the word "two", and the interdependence between mountains and people arises spontaneously. The word "only" in the conclusion is also tempered, which highlights the poet's love for Jingting Mountain. "It's enough to have a bosom friend in life", and the bird flying away is nothing to the poet. The artistic conception created by these two poems is still "quiet". On the surface, it is written that the poet looks at Jingting Mountain with deep affection. In fact, the more poets write about the "sentimentality" of mountains, the more they show people's "ruthlessness"; And his lonely and desolate situation is revealed in this quiet scene.
In the poet's pen, Jingting Mountain has no beautiful mountains, no beautiful streams and no beautiful bridges. It is not that there is nothing to write about Jingting Mountain, because Jingting Mountain "faces Wanxi in the east and the city in the south, sailing in the vast market with picturesque scenery". From the perspective of poetry, it is impossible to know the position of the poet relative to the mountain, perhaps at the top of the mountain or in the open area, but these are not important. The purpose of writing this poem is not to praise the scenery, but to express feelings through the scenery and the quiet scenery here. The poet found solace in the anthropomorphic Jingting Mountain, and seemed a little less lonely. However, it is here that the poet's inner loneliness is more prominent. The world is deeply lonely, and the whole song is filled with the breath of life tragedy; The whole poem seems to be full of scenery, but it has no emotion. But because the scenery is composed of emotion, every sentence is emotion, just like Wang Fuzhi said, "There is a scene in love, and there is love in the scene."
Ancient translation
Birds fly without a trace, and lonely clouds floating in the sky don't want to stay and drift away slowly. Only when I look at the high Jingting Mountain and Jingting Mountain looks at me silently, neither of us will feel bored. Who can understand my lonely mood at this time, only this high Jingting Mountain.
Modern translation
Birds fly high.
There's not a trace.
A lone cloud floating in the sky
Than stay.
Drifting away leisurely.
I'm sitting alone
Look at each other.
Two are not boring.
Only you-
Silent Jingting Mountain
Author Li Bai (70 1-762), whose real name is Taibai, is a violet layman, also known as "fallen fairy". Known as "Poet Fairy" by later generations, he is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He and Du Fu are also called "Du Li" in order to keep pace with Li Shangyin and Du Mu. His poems are mainly lyrical and express his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is magnificent and bold, with rich imagination, natural language and harmonious and changeable melody. It despises the arrogant spirit of the strong, sympathizes with the sufferings of the people and is good at depicting natural scenery. It is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, forming its unique magnificent and gorgeous colors, reaching the peak of the poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, with more than a thousand poems and songs, and Li Taibai Ji handed down from generation to generation has 30 volumes.