Full poem:
Flowers bloom and fall without regret, fate comes and goes like water.
When flowers fade, they bloom, and when flowers fly, they become sad. The sorrow of flowers is the tears of flowers, and the tears of flowers are the broken flowers.
Flowers dance, flowers shed tears, flowers cry and petals fly. For whom do you thank the flowers when they bloom? For whom do you feel sad when the flowers wither?
Translation: There is no regret when flowers bloom and fall. Fate comes and goes like running water and cannot be forced. Flowers wither in order to bloom again, but I am sad because the petals fly away. I shed tears for the sadness of the flowers, and my heart breaks for the tears of the flowers. The flying flowers are like the flowers weeping, and the flowers are weeping because of the flying petals. After the flowers bloom, for whom do they wither? And for whom do they feel sad when they wither?
The whole poem is very sad. Every word in the poem begins with the word flower, and Li Qingzhao also used this kind of broken flowers to express his inner emotions and express his feelings. A deep feeling of grief.
Extended information
Although this poem seems to be very ordinary, its deep emotion and unique way of description make this poem full of meaning. A kind of delicate emotion, which makes this poem also full of a lofty artistic conception, a sense of sadness between the lines.
Everything about Li Qingzhao’s attainments in lyrics is astonishing, but his poem is extremely unique, so in terms of creative techniques, it seems a bit scattered.
This kind of description can best convey the sadness in her heart. After all, in the later period, she witnessed the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, her husband passed away at the same time, and she lived alone in the south of the Yangtze River. These things Many changes made her very sad. This poem was written after he traveled south, and it best reflects her inner sorrow.