Thoughts in the dead of night
Tang Libai
The foot of my bed is shining so brightly. Is there frost already?
I looked up at the moon and looked down, feeling nostalgic.
The bright moonlight sprinkled on enough paper, as if the ground was frosted. I couldn't help looking up at the bright moon in the sky outside the window that day, and I couldn't help but bow my head and think of my hometown in the distance.
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Li Bai's Thoughts on a Quiet Night was written in Yangzhou Inn on September 15th, the 14th year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (726). Li Bai was twenty-six years old. At the same time, there is also a song "Autumn Night Travel" which was also produced in the same place. On a night with few stars, the poet looked up at the bright moon in the sky and was homesick. He wrote this famous poem "Thoughts on a Quiet Night", which will be read down through the ages.
"Silent Night Thinking" has no strange and novel imagination, no exquisite and gorgeous rhetoric, but only uses narrative style to write the homesickness of distant guests. However, it is meaningful and intriguing, and has attracted readers so widely for thousands of years. From "doubt" to "looking up" and from "looking up" to "bowing down", the whole poem vividly reveals the poet's inner activities, vividly outlines a vivid picture of homesickness on a moonlit night, and expresses the author's feelings of homesickness on a silent moonlit night. Guests can't sleep in the middle of the night, have a short dream.
At this time, the courtyard was lonely, and the bright moonlight hit the bed through the window, bringing a cold autumn chill. At first glance, the poet was in a blur and trance, and it really seemed that the ground was covered with frost; But a closer look, the surrounding environment told him that this is not a frost mark, but a moonlight.
The moonlight inevitably attracted him to look up, and a round of Juan Juan Su Ling hung in front of the window. The space in autumn night is so clear. The moon in autumn is especially bright, but it is very cold. For lonely and distant travelers, it is the easiest to touch their yearning for autumn, which makes people feel depressed and the years fly by. Staring at the moon is also the easiest way to make people daydream, think of everything in their hometown and their relatives at home. Thinking, thinking, head gradually lowered, completely immersed in meditation.
The first two sentences, the poet's illusion in a specific environment in a foreign country. A person who is away from home will feel that the busyness during the day can dilute his sadness, while the homesickness will inevitably ripple in his heart in the dead of night. On a moonlit night, especially on a frosty autumn night.
"Could there have been frost?" The word "doubt" in the poem vividly expresses that the poet woke up from his sleep and mistook the Leng Yue in front of his bed for the thick frost on the ground. The word "frost" is better used, which not only describes the bright moonlight, but also expresses the cold of the season, and also sets off the loneliness and desolation of the poet wandering abroad.
The last two sentences deepen homesickness through the portrayal of action expressions. The word "Wang" takes care of the word "doubt" in the previous sentence, indicating that the poet has changed from a daze to a sober one. Staring at the moon eagerly, he couldn't help thinking that his hometown was also under the bright moon, and naturally he came to the conclusion that "I sank back, and I suddenly thought of home".
The action of "bowing your head" depicts the poet completely lost in thought. The word "miss" left a rich imagination space for readers: the old brothers, relatives and friends in that hometown, the mountains and rivers, the grass and trees in that hometown, the lost years and the lost past are all thoughts. A word "Xiang" contains too much content.
Just four poems, written fresh and simple, clear as words. The idea is meticulous and profound, and there is no trace after blurting it out. The content is simple but rich; The content is easy to understand, but it is inexhaustible. What the poet didn't say was much more than what he had already said, which reflected the wonderful situation of "nature" and "no work and no heart"
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Quiet Night Thinking