Climb the Stork Tower
Wang Zhihuan
The sun sets over the mountains and the Yellow River flows into the sea.
If you want to see a thousand miles away, go higher. One floor.
Notes
1. Stork Tower: The former site is in Yongji County, Shanxi Province. The building is three stories high, facing Zhongtiao Mountain in front and the Yellow River below. It is said that storks often stay here, hence the name.
2. Daytime: Sun.
3. Yi: rely on.
4. End: disappear. This sentence means that the sun sets against the mountains.
5. Desire: the desire to get something or achieve a certain goal, but it also means hope and want.< /p>
6. Exhaust: to exhaust, to reach the extreme.
7. Clairvoyance: broad vision.
8. Geng: replace, change. (not the commonly understood meaning of "again")
Translation
The setting sun slowly sinks against the Western Mountains, and the surging Yellow River rushes towards the East China Sea. If If you want to see enough of the thousands of miles of scenery, you have to climb to a higher tower. Poetry Rhythm The rhythm of this poem belongs to the rhyme-less rhythm of the first sentence.
Poetry Appreciation
This poem describes the extraordinary ambition shown by the poet when he climbed high and looked into the distance, reflecting the positive and enterprising spirit of people in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Among them, the first two sentences describe what he saw. "The sun is shining over the mountains." When writing about distant views and mountains, he writes about the scenery seen from climbing a building. When writing about "the flow of the Yellow River into the sea", he writes about close-up views. When writing about water, the scene is spectacular and majestic. Here, the poet uses extremely simple and superficial language, which is both highly vivid and vivid. In a highly general way, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains that have entered the broad field of vision are collected into just ten words; and when future generations read these ten words in a thousand years, they will feel as if they are there, see the scenery, and feel that they are open-minded. Open. The first sentence is about looking at the setting sun in the distance, sinking toward the endless rolling mountains in front of the building, and slowly disappearing at the end of the field of vision. This is the sky view, the distant view, and the westward view.
The second sentence I write to see the Yellow River flowing under the front of the building roaring and rolling south, then turning eastward in the distance and flowing back to the sea. This is a view from the ground to the horizon, from near to far, from west to east. This is When the two lines of the poem are put together, all the scenery above and below, far and near, and east and west are included in the poem, making the picture appear particularly broad and far away. As far as the second line of the poem is concerned, the poet is on the stork tower, and it is impossible to Looking at the Yellow River entering the sea, the sentence describes the poet's imaginary scene as he watches the Yellow River disappear into the horizon. It is a way of writing that blends the current foreground and the imaginary scene into one. Written in this way, it increases the breadth and depth of the picture. Calling the sun "white sun" is a realistic style. The setting sun hugs the mountains and the clouds cover the fog. The already weakened sun's brilliance appears even dimmer at this time, so the poet directly observes the strangeness of "white sun". Scenery. As for the "Yellow River", of course it is also realistic. It is like a golden streamer, flying among the mountains.
What the poet sees before his eyes is a picture of overflowing colors, gold and green. A magnificent picture. This picture is still in the midst of rapid changes. The sun disappears over the mountains, which is just a very short-term process; the Yellow River flows towards the sea, but it is an eternal movement. If we say... This kind of scenery is very beautiful, so it is a kind of dynamic beauty, a lively beauty full of infinite vitality. This is not the so-called "fixed frame", nor is it a treasured fossil or specimen. The reader is deeply attracted by the poet's generous work. Impressed. The last two sentences describe what you think. "Wish to see a thousand miles away" describes the poet's endless desire to explore. He also wants to see further and see the places that his eyesight can reach. The only way is to stand still. Higher, "to the next level". "Thousands of miles" and "one level" are all imaginary numbers, which are the vertical and horizontal spaces in the poet's imagination. How much hope and how much are contained in the words "desire to be poor" and "go up higher" Longing. These two lines of poetry are famous lines that have been passed down through the ages. They are unique and unexpected, and they are very natural and closely connected with the first two lines of poetry. At the same time, using the word "lou" at the end also means "Lou". The title function shows that this is a poem about climbing a building. From the second half of the poem, it can be inferred that the first half of the poem may be about what he saw on the second floor, and the poet also wanted to further see the distant scenery as far as he could see, and even more Climbed to the top of the building. The poem seems to be just a straightforward description of the process of climbing the building, but its meaning is far-reaching and inviting to explore. It contains the poet's enterprising spirit and far-sighted mind, and also expresses the need to stand tall. The philosophy of a talented person who sees far. As far as the writing characteristics of the whole poem are concerned, this poem is what the Japanese monk Kukai said in "Bunjing Mifu Lun", "the scene enters the rational situation". Some people say that reasoning is taboo in poetry. < /p>
This should just mean that poetry should not reason rigidly, boringly, and abstractly, but that philosophy cannot be revealed and promoted in poetry. Like this poem, the truth, scenery, and emotions are seamlessly blended, making the The reader does not feel that it is reasoning, but the reason is within it. This is a model of using image thinking to show the philosophy of life based on the characteristics of poetry. This poem also has another feature in the way it is written: it is a quatrain that uses antithesis throughout. In the first two sentences, the two nouns "white sun" and "yellow river" are opposite, the two colors "white" and "yellow" are opposite, and the two verbs "yi" and "enter" are opposite. The same is true for the last two sentences, forming a form Perfection on the subject.
When Shen De selected this poem in "Farewell to Tang Poems", he once pointed out: "The four languages ????are all correct, and it is not distasteful to read, so the bones are high." The quatrains are summarized** *There are only two couplets, and both couplets use antithesis. If it is not vigorous and coherent, it will be easy to be dull or fragmented. In this poem, the first couplet uses a correct name pair. The so-called "direct and opposite" sentences are extremely Neat, thick and powerful, it shows the majesty of the scene written; the latter couplet is used, although the two sentences are opposite, there is no trace of antithesis. Therefore, the poet's use of antithesis skills is also very mature.