As dusk falls, I feel more and more distant.
The thatched cottage looks more shabby in cold weather.
Suddenly there was a dog barking outside Chai Men.
Snowy night is coming, I am a tenant.
[Edit this paragraph] Brief analysis
This poem depicts a picture of a snowy night.
The first two sentences, what the poet saw and felt in the mountain village. The first sentence "Sunset is far away", "Sunset" indicates the time, which is evening. "Cangshan is in the distance" is what the poet saw on his way through the snow. Overlooking the green hills, the clouds are lingering, suggesting the hardships of trekking and the desire to stay for a long time. The second sentence "cold weather, poor house" points out the place to stay. The "white house", the humble hut of the host family, is even more shabby in the cold winter. The words "cold", "white" and "poor" set each other off in interest, rendering the atmosphere of poverty and innocence and embodying the poet's unique feelings.
The last two sentences describe the poet after living in his master's house. "Chai Men smells dogs barking." The poet went into the hut and went to bed. Suddenly, he heard a dog barking on the sofa. The poet guessed that Albert Venn Dicey, the cloak master of Furong Mountain, had returned. From the perspective of listening and listening, these two sentences show a scene in which a dog calls people back.
There have always been different interpretations of this poem, and the main difference lies in the understanding of "Gui". One view holds that "returning" is the arrival of a poet, who suddenly found a place to stay in the misty snow, such as "the feeling of home". Another opinion is that the owner of Furong Mountain will return home at night in the snow. The key is where the poet stands. In the former, the poet is outside the "White House" and on his way to the snow; In the latter, the poet is in the "white room", or the first two sentences are outside the house and the last two sentences are inside the house.
This poem, with an extremely concise poetic pen, depicts a picture of a cold mountain staying overnight, tourists staying at dusk and snowman as the material. Poetry is written in chronological order. The first sentence is about the feeling of tourists traveling on the mountain road at dusk, the second sentence is about what they saw at the boarding house, and the last two sentences are about what they heard at the boarding house after nightfall. Each poem constitutes an independent picture and is interrelated. There are pictures in the poem, but the feelings are seen outside.
At the beginning of the poem, the words "the setting sun is far away" are used to outline a picture of the twilight and the long mountain road. There is no clear description of the characters in the poem, but it makes readers feel that their people are ready to go, and their feelings are vividly on the paper. Here, the word "far" points to a vivid picture and reveals a poetic scene. It gives people hints and imagination. From this word, the reader will naturally want to see someone marching on the mountain road at dusk, and infer his lonely and tired travel situation and his desire to stay. Next, the second sentence of the poem asks the reader to follow the pedestrian's line of sight, along this mountain road, and invest in the home for the night. "Cold weather and poor house" is a portrayal of this family; And the word "poor" should be the impression formed after seeing the hut from a distance to knocking at the door. Writing "sunset" before the previous sentence "Cangshan is far away" and writing "cold weather" before this sentence "Baijia is poor" are all ways to increase the level and weight of the poem. The long mountain road has made people feel that the road is far away, and it is even farther to see the sunset; The humble hut has made people feel poor, and it is even poorer in winter. Judging from the context, the word "cold weather" in this sentence has its connecting link. Inheritance is to further render the color of sunset road; Revelation is the foreshadowing of a snowstorm at night.
These first two poems, which add up to only ten words, have already written the scenes of hiking and house. The last two poems, "Chai Men smells dogs barking, and the snow returns to people at night", were written after spending the night in the mountain. In terms of words, "Chai Men" is connected with "White House", "snow" is connected with "cold" and "night" is connected with "sunset". In this way, from the perspective of the whole poem, although the second half of the poem opens up another poetic realm, it is closely connected with the first half, so as not to make readers feel out of touch. But here, the cause has made a leap. It seems that "smelling dogs barking" is at night, and most travelers who are tired of hiking have already slept; From dusk to night arrival, from cold invasion to snowstorm, from entering the hut to going to bed, there should be some descriptions in the middle, but the poem skips this paragraph and omits some plots, making the cause more compact. The poet deliberated between various choices. If this effort is not made, perhaps the second half of the poem should further describe the depression of people living in houses, write about the desolation of mountain houses and the silence of the environment, or write about the coming of snow at night. Otherwise, you can also write about your own travel and your thoughts after staying overnight. But the poet put these things aside and didn't write. Unexpectedly, he saw a noisy dog barking in the silence. This shows the change of scale, giving people the feeling that a strange peak suddenly appeared on the flat ground.
As far as writing is concerned, the first half of a poem is written according to what you see and hear, and the second half is written according to what you hear and hear. Because, since the night has come and people have gone to bed, it is impossible to write what they have seen and heard, but only what they have heard and heard. The sentence "Chai Men" should be written about what I heard in the hospital on the sofa in the dark: the sentence "snowstorm" should not be seen, but heard, because I heard all kinds of voices and knew that someone had come back in the snowstorm. I only wrote "Smell the dog barking" here, probably because it was the first sound to break the still night, and it was also the first one I heard, but what I actually heard was not only the dog barking, but also the sound of Melissa Zhou, knocking at the door, the sound of Chai Men's switch, the sound of family members' response, and so on. These sounds are intertwined. Although the person who spent the night was not in the hospital and had never seen it, it was enough to conceive the picture of returning from the snowstorm from this noisy sound.
When the poem was written here, its meaning was not extended and it came to an abrupt end. It didn't take long to explain the feelings of people who listened to these voices and conceived this picture. However, the feeling of desolation in the mountains revealed from it is self-evident that it triggers the feelings of travelers in the quiet night.