《dēnggāo》fēngjítiāngāoyuánxiàoāi, zhǔqīngshābáiniǎofēihuí. wúbiānluòmùxiāoxiāoxià, bùjìnchángjiānggǔngǔnlái. wànlǐbēiqiūchángzuòkè, bǎiniánduōbìngdúdēngtái. jiānnánkǔhènfánshuāngbìn, liáodàoxīntíngzhuójiǔbēi.
"Ascend the High" is a poem by Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem was written in the second year of Dali (767) when the author was in Kuizhou. The first four sentences describe the scenery, recount the experiences of climbing high, closely follow the seasonal characteristics of autumn, and depict the empty and lonely scenery of the river. The first couplet is a partial close-up view, and the chin couplet is an overall distant view. The last four sentences are lyrical, describing the feelings of climbing high. They revolve around the author's own life experience and express the sadness of being poor, old and sick, and living in a foreign country.
The neck couplet is self-inflicted, revealing the metaphorical, symbolic and suggestive meanings contained in the description of the scene in the first four sentences; the last couplet makes another statement and ends with the self-image of decline and illness.
The language of the whole poem is concise, and there are parallelisms throughout, and one or two sentences are even within sentences, which fully shows that Du Fu's grasp of the rhythm and rhythm of poetic language has reached a state of perfection in his later years.