Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, come at midnight and go at dawn.
When did a short and beautiful spring dream come? When they leave, they are like clouds in the morning.
The language of this poem is very common, but it is difficult to find its interest. We can't specifically point out the objective image that the poet wants to describe, because the whole poem is just a metaphor.
This poem is lamenting and thinking about the helpless life. In fact, everything in the world is nothing, and the true meaning of life may not really exist. Even if there is, it can't be reached directly. Therefore, the poet uses negation and metaphor to express this emotion.
The first is the beautiful artistic conception of flowers in the fog. Flowers, fog and clouds in the poem are concrete and vivid images, but what are "flowers are not flowers", "fog is not fog" and "going away like clouds"? In the process of creation, the poet skillfully used implication and vagueness. The so-called implication is one of the typical forms of text discourse meaning, which means that the limited discourse contains or contains infinite meaning, so that readers can appreciate the infinite in the limited. "The implication is not shallow, the words are incoherent, the sentences are memorable, and the article is more profound." In this poem (Qing Shen), flowers, fog and clouds can generally be beautiful artistic conception, but "flowers are not flowers", "fog is not fog", "coming like a spring dream" and "going like a cloud" are as beautiful as flowers, as light as fog, as floating as clouds and as beautiful as smoke, but I can't do it. Empty and subtle, implicit gives birth to an ethereal artistic conception, which leads to different thoughts on love, ideals and life, which is intriguing. Those words that are attached more quickly and have lasting appeal are the words that reach the soul. At the end of the poem, there is no trace, even the shadow will be lost, and it can only end in emptiness. Deep regret, how can people not aftertaste?
Secondly, it is the beauty of the distance between illusion and reality. The beauty produced by distance is a sad beauty. "Come in the middle of the night" and "leave at dawn", such a short encounter, an emotion, a lover, a sustenance, a pursuit and ambition, suddenly produced, instantly disillusioned. These seemingly loving and in-depth analyses have various uncertain meanings to ideals and life, and it is difficult to ponder over them while reading them. This is the potential of rich meaning generation in the discourse system brought by ambiguity. The last two sentences "coming like a spring dream is not long" and "going like a cloud without finding a place" are the synthesis of these images, flowers without flowers, fog without fog, flowers in the fog, coming like a spring dream and going like clouds. A pair of hazy artistic beauty reflects a touch of sadness and makes people memorable. This is the literary charm brought by the implication of words.
The whole poem has changed from subtle small to large, from vague one to many, with the characteristics of * * *, and the discourse system for explaining poetry has rich possibilities of meaning generation, that is, discourse implication. No matter from the poet's literary creation process, or from the rich images, beautiful artistic conception or sad tone contained in poetry, poetry can bring people thinking and achieve * * *. I think this is the enduring charm of literature. Bai Juyi's "Flowers Are Not Flowers", which has been recalled for a long time, may have a deeper understanding.
This poem is fresh and natural, catchy, and has a rhythmic beauty when sung. However, for thousands of years, many people thought it was an obscure poem. What kind of feelings does the poet want to express? When I think about it occasionally, I really think this poem is quite interesting. Mr. Bai Lao should be said to be a master of realism It is really rare to write a flower without ontology in his works. Why does a poet who has always taken "women and children can understand" as his creative principle sing such obscure poems?
Every time I read this poem, I seem to see the poet dressed, singing alone under the lonely lamp in the middle of the night, wandering in front of the sleepless bed. Suddenly, a specific person in that memory pierced his heart and made him feel an unspeakable pain. If you want to tell the past that you dare not say, you have to borrow a series of metaphors to tell it. But what kind of transportation can be chosen to explain the vague past, and what kind of transportation can be included? I don't know. The past is like a flower, but it is not a flower. The fragrance of flowers has long lost its color, leaving only a wisp of fragrance in the depths of the soul, haunting the poet and forcing him to taste it alone. "Time is the best way to solve all problems", and some forgotten past events gradually blurred and evolved into a fog. But is it really fog? Don't! Fog has no color or fragrance, and the good memories in the poet's heart will not disappear like fog. It just precipitates with the passage of time. No matter how much rain or strong wind can dilute it and take it away. It will be accompanied by the poet aging day by day, step by step towards death. This beautiful memory, together with those who can arouse it, will always be the secret of guarding the grave.
Happy moments are never missed. I don't know who said that: the so-called love and the so-called beauty are all memories, a short-lived feeling, and at most an infinite extension of the beautiful memories written by the poet! Whether this sentence is right or not, we do read the poet's memories from the poem and chew the unspeakable past. Although the past is so short and hurried, it is like a spring dream, leaving only bitterness and sweetness in the bottom of my heart, which only brings more thoughts and reverie to the poet. But after all, she is her own dream and has had the experience of "pain and happiness"
The word "flowers are not flowers" began to become a epigraph. The first four sentences are all three words and consist of the first two sentences of the seven-character quatrain. The last two sentences are still seven words, with obvious traces, indicating that they evolved from seven-character quatrains.
This word is full of argot, and the theme is to praise official prostitutes. At that time, there were a certain number of prostitutes at all levels of government, driven by corrupt bureaucrats. The first sentence "flowers are not flowers" means that official prostitutes are like flowers, but they are not real flowers. The word "fog" in the second sentence "fog is not fog" is a pun. Using "fog" as "martial arts" and "martial women" are female stars. Because the official prostitute is a woman, she should go to the guest house, but it is not in a fog. "Come at midnight and leave at dawn" is not only a singer, but also a singer. It means pun, but it's mainly about people. Official prostitutes are different from ordinary prostitutes and even more different from formal wives. They are interdependent with bureaucrats, but they are very close. They can only come at night and leave tomorrow, which can be said to be short and long. So the last two sentences say, "How long will it be like a spring dream?" ? Leave like a sigh in the clouds. The last sentence will be short, but not too long. Among them, the description of "dream" and "cloud" is based on the allusions about the dream meeting between the king of Chu and the goddess of Wushan in Song Yu's Gao and Goddess Fu. Because of the clever use of language and writing, the love between men and women is implicit and poetic.
Punning and hazy beauty are the biggest characteristics of this small character. Fog, dream of spring, clouds, these images are hazy and ethereal, deliberately omitting the connection between them, showing a huge leap, and the words are ethereal and refined, which is memorable and shows the poet's extraordinary artistic skill.
The first three words in the poem are almost "untitled". The first two sentences should be read as "flowers-non-flowers, fog-non-fog", which gives people an unpredictable feeling first. Both "non-flower" and "non-fog" are negative, but they all contain a self-evident premise: like flowers, like fog. Therefore, it can be said that these are two clever metaphors. Su Dongpo seems to have got a little inspiration from this, and wrote the famous sentence "Like a flower, it is still like a non-flower, and no one repents of teaching" ("Water"). Su Ci chants catkins, while Bai Shi's is not obvious. But from the narrative of "coming at midnight and leaving at dawn", we can see that the metaphor here is flowers and fog, for example, what is sung is fleeting and difficult to last.
Just watching "come at midnight and leave at dawn" makes readers doubt that they are talking about dreams. But it can be seen from the next sentence "coming like a spring dream" that it is not. "Dream" turned out to be a comparison. Here, the words "come" and "go" play a connecting role in sound and emotion, thus giving birth to two vivid metaphors. Those who "came in the middle of the night" had a spring dream, which was beautiful but short-lived, and then led to a question: "How long will it be like a spring dream?" "Xiao" sees the morning glow. Although the cloud is beautiful, it is easy to be disillusioned, which leads to a sigh: "The cloud seems to be nowhere to be found".
Poetry consists of a series of metaphors, which are called metaphors. The two are closely linked, like clouds and water, and written naturally. Repeatedly highlight an unexplained metaphor with vivid images. There are many examples of making good use of metaphors in poems, such as "there is a dispute between the north and the south, and the morning glory bears the yoke" in Nineteen Ancient Poems (the bright moon shines that night), and "Yichuan Tobacco, the wind in the city, the plum yellow rain" in He Zhu's Jade Case. However, these metaphors are only part of the poem, and the metaphors that run through this poem are rare. Furthermore, the above example compares the astrology such as Nanji, Beidou and Petunia, which means "what is the benefit of writing"; Compared with the scenes of tobacco, catkins and plum rain, the latter situation means "asking how much is idle", and its metaphor (metaphorical thing) is clear. And this poem only sees metaphor (used as metaphor) and doesn't know metaphor, just like an intriguing mystery. In this way, the artistic conception of poetry is covered with a layer of "hazy" color.
Even so, the poetry of this poem is not completely obscure and elusive. It was compiled by the author in a relatively concentrated "sentimental" department, and the same department also has similar emotional works. The first one is "The Tomb of the True Mother", which reads: "Frost destroys the wind of peaches and plums, and the true mother was still a teenager when she died. Fat skin and fat hands are not strong, so it is difficult to stay in the world. Difficult to stay, easy to sell, Saibei flower, Jiangnan snow. " The other is Bamboo Slips Poem, which reads: "first frost's peach blossoms are exhausted in February, I want to marry next year and die this year", and "most good things are not firm, colorful clouds are easy to disperse, and glass is broken". Both poems are mourning works, and the metaphor of the last sentence, especially the "Saibei Flower" and "Caiyun" which are easy to disperse, is different from this poem. The poem "Flower is not a flower" is closely compiled after "Bamboo Slip Poetry", which tells readers a piece of news about the poem's return to interest. This poem and Song of Jane were written for the same purpose at the same time.
This poem adopts the form of alternating three sentences and seven sentences (this is the flexible use of the three-seven-seven sentence pattern of folk songs at that time), which has both orderly rhythm and intricate aesthetic feeling, and is very similar to later poems. Therefore, later generations actually adopted this rhyme method as the tone of words, with "flowers are not flowers" as the tone name. A major change in the content of the May 7th poem is that the words tend to express people's inner feelings. At this point, this poem is similar to this word. It is natural that this phenomenon of "poetry is like fine print" appeared in the works of Bai Juyi, a poet engaged in ci creation in the early Tang Dynasty.