Poetry Appreciation of Du Fu's "Lone Wild Goose"
Lone Wild Goose
Du Fu
The lonely wild goose does not drink and peck, but flies and cries out to the flock.
Who can pity a shadow and miss each other through thousands of clouds?
Looking at it all seems like seeing it, and feeling sad like hearing it more.
The crows in the wild have no thoughts and make a lot of noise.
This poem about things was written when Du Fu lived in Kuizhou at the beginning of the Dali Dynasty. It is a song about a lone wild goose thinking about a flock of birds. It has a wonderful body and composition, and at the same time it incorporates the author's thoughts and feelings. It is a masterpiece.
According to the usual method, the poems about chanting things are better when they are melodious, and when they are hidden, the things they are chanting should not be revealed. Du Fu is not like that. He calls out "Lone Goose" at the beginning of his poem, and this Lone Goose is different from ordinary ones. It doesn't drink or peck, it just keeps flying and calling, and its voice reveals how much it misses its companions! Not only does he miss her, but he also desperately pursues her. This is truly a "lonely goose" with passionate and persistent emotions. Pu Qilong of the Qing Dynasty commented: "'Flying Sounds and Thoughts Group' is the essence of a poem" ("Du Xinjie"), and he has grasped the key point.
The realm of the second couplet suddenly broadened. In the vast sky far away, this little lone goose is just a "shadow". It is lost among the flock of geese among "thousands of clouds". At this moment, I feel so anxious, anxious, and confused. ah! The sky is high and the road is far away, and the sea of ??clouds is confusing. Where will you go to find your lost partner? This couplet uses the word "who has pity" as a question. This question seems to open a floodgate, and the emotional spring in the poet's chest flows out: "Lone Goose, am I not just as miserable as you? In the vast world, who else is there? "Come and take pity on me?" The poet and the wild goose merge into one another. Zhu Heling, a native of the Qing Dynasty, annotated this poem and said: "This is to entrust Lone Goose to think of his brothers." Moreover, the people the poet misses may not only be his brothers, but also his close friends. After experiencing the Anshi Rebellion, during those turbulent years, the poet lived in a foreign land, his relatives and friends were separated, and they were far apart. However, he always longed for the reunion of his flesh and blood, and dreamed of reunited with his close friends. This lonely wild goose embodies the poet's own feelings. shadow.
The three couplets closely follow the first couplet and portray the distinctive personality of Lone Goose from a psychological perspective: it is entangled with longing and tortured by pain, forcing it to fly continuously. It looks to the sky, looking, looking, as if the lost geese are always dangling before its eyes; it calls, calling, calling, as if the voice of its companion is always ringing in its ears; so , it has to keep chasing and flying, and keeps calling. These two sentences of blood and tears are deeply emotional and heartbreaking. Pu Qilong commented: "I fly because I am thinking about it. I can't see it anymore and keep flying. It's like seeing a group of others and chasing them away. I sing because I'm thinking about it. I'm mourning a lot and it's not stopping. It's like calling out after hearing the group of people." At this point in my sketching, I am crying!" ("Reading Du Xinjie")
The ending uses foil to express the poet's feelings of love and hate. The lonely goose misses the flock so urgently, and it is so painful and tiring; but the wild crows don't understand it at all, and they keep making noises, enjoying themselves. "Unintentional mood" is the mood of Lone Goose when facing wild crows, and it is also the mood of Du Fu who hates boredom when he can't meet his close relatives and friends, but faces some vulgar people. "Those who know me say that I am worried; those who don't know me say that what do I want?" ("Poetry, Wang Feng, Shu Li"), what can we talk about with such "people who don't know me"?
This is a hymn to the flock of wild geese. The emotion it expresses is profound, and there is strength in the sadness. It is so lonely and miserable, but at the same time it has to keep calling and pursuing. Its longing for friends is burning in its heart. It can even abandon food and drink, not to mention the safety of its situation. Although An is short-lived but has a high heart, he would rather Flying in the thousands of clouds, never paying attention to the cold pond in the evening rain, the poem is passionate and high-spirited, and the state of mind is very high.
As far as artistic skills are concerned, the whole chant is vivid and is made naturally by a master craftsman, without any trace of axe. The two couplets in the middle are full of emotions and scenery, and are integrated in one go. Moreover, the scenery is full of sound and color, and even has light and shadow, which can give people a "three-dimensional sense" and express the shadows of the geese in the clouds like a movie lens. It is a stroke of genius.