In the writings of classical poets, lamps and candles are the holy light to illuminate the night-"the winter night is not long, and the lamps and candles burn"; It is also the spirit of sacrifice that burns dedication-"self-immolation is useful, but it is still necessary to kill yourself"; It is also an artistic form with aesthetic significance. In Du Fu's poems, "I like to hurt my bald head, but I love candle red more", and the deeper candle red causes the poet's aesthetic pleasure. "Candle shadows shake red" is a well-known epigraph. Because of this, the poet sang "Don't worry about the setting sun, Yi Deng will burn." The famous poem "Long Night", accompanied by Eden, has a kind force against the darkness; Sitting alone under the window, the lights are dancing and the candles are red. It is a blurred and warm art form, so Tang Xianzu happily wrote: "Everyone is one, a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend." Watching lanterns and candles has become the elegance of ancient literati, but this elegance is related to a primitive and vivid story, which is as old as human beings.
Image is the unity of objective image and subjective feeling, and it is the key to poetry creation and appreciation. Candle image is one of the common images, which embodies the poet's complex and subtle emotional experience. However, it rarely reflects the positive symbolic significance of candles in light and hope, warmth and pleasure, but expresses their misfortune, homesickness and helplessness through the tragic fate of candles. Every word cries blood, and every sentence makes people cry, forming a unique poetic style of sadness, stubbornness, nature and truth, full of the poet's sense of loss and disillusionment with life, which makes people reluctant to part.
In particular, the description of the incomplete form of lamps and candles and the creation of the space-time scene of solitary lamps in the night rain add to the sad aesthetic meaning of poetry. Words, words and feelings have crossed the historical time and space, so that readers can still vaguely perceive the author's temperature after many years, which not only makes them sigh, but also causes countless people to sing.