Look at the moon and embrace the distance
Zhang Jiuling
The bright moon rises on the sea, and the end of the world is at this time.
Lover complains about the distant night, but falls in love at night.
When the candle is extinguished, it is filled with pity and light, and when I put on my clothes, I feel the dew.
I can’t bear to give it away, but I still have a good night’s sleep.
Explanation of the poem
A bright moon rises on the sea. People far away in the world look at the moon like me and miss each other. Passionate people complain about the long nights and miss their loved ones throughout the night. I extinguished the candles and loved the moonlight in the room. I put on my clothes and felt the dew getting heavier. I can’t give you this hand full of moonlight, so I’d better go back to sleep and hope to meet you in my dreams.
Word explanation
Yao Ye: The long night.
Jingxi: stay up all night
Pilg in clothes: means leaving the house.
Luzi: Wetting with dew.
Go back to bed: Go back to the bedroom and sleep again.
Poem Appreciation
This is a poem about looking at the moon and cherishing people. Looking at the moon caused lovesickness, so I stayed up all night. The moonlight was both the cause and the witness of lovesickness. The poet expresses the protagonist's inner emotions by writing about the protagonist's actions.
The artistic conception of the whole poem is powerful and quiet, the language and images are real, the emotions and scenery are organically blended together, gentle and lingering, and endless aftertaste.
Appreciation of "Silent Night Thoughts" by Li Bai
Silent Night Thoughts·Li Bai
The moonlight shines brightly in front of the bed, and it is suspected to be frost on the ground.
Look up at the bright moon, lower your head and miss your hometown.
Hu Yinglin said: "The quatrains of Taibai are composed of words. The so-called people who do not intend to work but do not work hard." (Volume 6 of "Shisou? Neibian") Wang Shimao believes: "(Quetrains) The prosperous Tang Dynasty was only young. Lian (Li Bai) and Long Biao (Wang Changling) are extremely accomplished. Li Gengzi, the former resident of Wangshang. "("Yifu Yiyu") What is "natural" and "does nothing without working". ? This song "Quiet Night Thoughts" is an example. Therefore, Hu specially brought it up and said it was "wonderful both in ancient and modern times".
This little poem has neither strange and novel imagination, nor sophisticated and beautiful rhetoric; it only uses a narrative tone to describe the homesickness of distant visitors, but it is meaningful and intriguing. , has attracted readers so widely for thousands of years. A person visiting a foreign country will probably feel like this: it's fine during the day, but in the dead of night, homesickness will inevitably surge in his heart; let alone a moonlit night, let alone a bright moon like frost. autumn night!
The moon is white and the frost is clear, which is the autumn night scene; using frost color to describe the moonlight is also often seen in classical poetry. For example, Emperor Wen of the Liang Dynasty Xiao Gang's poem "Enjoying the Coolness in Xuanpu" contains the sentence "The night moon is like autumn frost"; and Zhang Ruoxu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty who was slightly earlier than Li Bai, used "The frost is flowing in the sky without noticing" in "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night". "Fly" is used to describe the clear and clear moonlight, which gives people a three-dimensional sense, especially the wonderful conception. But these all appear in poetry as a rhetorical device. The poem's "suspected to be frost on the ground" is a narrative rather than an imitation of an object. It is an illusion that the poet had in a specific environment for a moment. Why is there such an illusion? It is not difficult to imagine that these two sentences describe the scene of being unable to fall asleep late at night in the guest house and having the first short dream. The courtyard was lonely at this time, and the bright moonlight through the window shone in front of the bed, bringing the cold autumn night chill. The poet took a hazy first glance, and in his confused mood, it really seemed as if the ground was covered with a layer of thick white frost; but when he took a closer look, the surrounding environment told him that this was not frost marks but moonlight. The moonlight inevitably attracted him to look up and see a round of beautiful women hanging in front of the window. The space in the autumn night was so bright and clear! At this time, he was fully awake.
The autumn moon is exceptionally bright, but it is also cold. For travelers who are far away alone, it is most likely to trigger the nostalgia for travel, making people feel that the guest situation is bleak and time is fleeting. Staring at the moon is also the easiest way for people to have reverie, thinking of everything in their hometown and their relatives at home. Thinking, thinking, his head gradually lowered, completely immersed in contemplation.
From "doubt" to "raise head", from "raise head" to "lower head", it vividly reveals the poet's inner activities and vividly outlines a vivid picture of homesickness on a moonlit night.
A short four-line poem, written in a fresh and simple way, as clear as words. Its content is simple, but at the same time it is rich. It is easy to understand, but it is difficult to appreciate. What the poet does not say is much more than what he has said. Its conception is meticulous and profound, but it is also composed without any trace. From here, it is not difficult for us to understand the wonderful realm of "nature" and "no intention of work but no lack of work" in Li Bai's quatrains.