#Poetry Appreciation# Introduction "Spring Thoughts" is a seven-character quatrain created by Fang Yue, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. Using an anthropomorphic style of writing, he enthusiastically praises the vibrant spring breeze through the description of spring scenery. Let’s learn about Fang Yue’s poem “Spring Thoughts” describing the wind together with us. Welcome to read!
"Spring Thoughts"
Southern Song Dynasty? Fang Yue
Too much spring breeze can be too busy,
Long *** lace willow layman .
Working with swallows and bees to make honey,
It is just a light rain and it is clear again.
Translation Note
Spring breeze, because of your excessive easy-going, you are so busy; you always accompany the red flowers and the green willows.
①Duoke: It means how capable.
② Busy student: Busy look. Sheng, auxiliary word, unintentional.
③With: substitute, help.
④Must: Yes.
Appreciation
This poem is titled "Spring Thoughts", but it is about the spring breeze. The small spring breeze shows the big spring, and the busy spring breeze shows the prosperity of spring. The weather.
The first sentence, "There is too much spring breeze to be too busy," uses the artistic technique of personification. In the poet's writing, the spring breeze is like a very busy person who can't take any time off all day long. It rushes around and contributes to others. The word "Duoke" describes the casual and gentle characteristics of the spring breeze and expresses the poet's praise for the spring breeze's selfless dedication. The next three sentences, "The lace willow is a layman's work. Working with the swallows, the bees make honey, and then the light rain blows and then the sun shines." The content of the busy spring breeze is specifically stated. First of all, the poet cited the most typical flowers and willows in spring, and said that the spring breeze "has long lace and willows." With the arrival of spring, everything revives, and a gust of east wind blows. The first things to feel spring are flowers and willows. This sentence is written in a general way and gives people a very general impression, but readers can completely use their imagination to picture this wonderful picture: the sun is warm, the flowers are in full bloom, and the willows are beginning to sprout, with thousands of branches hanging down. The "green silk ribbon" swings in the wind. This is such a vibrant scene, but the driving force behind it all is the unknown spring breeze. The third sentence describes the impact of the spring breeze on animals, and the last sentence writes about the impact of the spring breeze on the weather. In short, the last three sentences promote each other and write the busy spring breeze from different angles. They are very vivid but not biased. Together with the general sentence of the first sentence, they jointly express the interest of the spring breeze.
Extended reading: Fang Yue's personal profile
Fang Yue (1199--1262), whose courtesy name was Jushan and alias Qiuya, was from Qimen, Xin'an (now part of Anhui). Lizong was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Shaoding (1232). He once served as a literary tutor, and later served as the prefect of Yuanzhou and the official minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Because of their disobedience to power, Shi Songzhi, Ding Daquan, and Jia Sidao were frustrated in their official careers. He specializes in poetry, mostly describing rural life and pastoral scenery, which is simple and natural. Most of his poems express patriotism and worries about the times, with a clear and healthy style. He is the author of forty volumes of "Qiu Ya Collection" and a collection of poems such as "Qiu Ya Ci". Fang Yue's former residence is in Hejiawu in the north of the city. There were originally buildings such as Junzi Pavilion and Return Hall in the dock. There are plum blossoms on the mountain and lotus in the pond. The scenery is charming. Because Fang Yue saw the lush lotus in the pond, he changed its name to Hejiawu.
Fang Yue was born in a family that has been engaged in farming and reading for generations. He was able to compose poems at the age of seven and was known as a child prodigy at the time. He became a Jinshi in the fifth year of Shaoding in the Southern Song Dynasty (1232 AD). Because he was upright, not afraid of powerful people, and dared to fight, he was framed and attacked by powerful and corrupt officials many times, and his official career was bumpy. Hong Yanzu said that he had "four or six poems, without using ancient rules, but based on his meaning, and the words may come from heaven" ("Mr. Qiu Ya's Biography"). His articles on politics and affairs are fluent, easy to read and insightful. For example, "The First Son of Lun Dui" criticized that at that time, "the second and third ministers stayed away from suspicion more often, but less time on economic and political affairs. The meaning of dealing with economic difficulties was shallow, but the meaning of calculating interests was profound." This was said by Hong Yanzu A profound comment. The "Book with Zhao Duanming" written in Huainan criticized Zhao Kui for his mistakes in military management, which was sincere and forthright. He was also a famous parallel prose master in the late Southern Song Dynasty. He was highly praised by people at that time for his precise use of allusions, as well as his precise use of allusions and prose.
Extended reading: Fang Yue’s poetry style
Poetry
Fang Yue’s poems mostly reflect his mood and emotion when he quit his job and lived in the countryside, such as in "Feelings" "The poem writes: "The official love has gone with the flow, and the old color has come up. I have been used to living in the mountains without calendar days, and I don't know that there is a public platform in the world." This shows a glimpse of his state of mind. He once said in the poem "Ci Yun Farewell Yuan Ke" that "you don't get tired of reading books frequently, and poetry must be recited lightly." His poems are also sparse, clear and far-sighted. Therefore, Wu Zhuo of the Qing Dynasty commented that his poems "do not lose the purpose of gentleness and peace, and strive to correct the difficult path of the Jiangxi School. Scholars should be aware of this" (Article "Qiuya Small Draft" in "Xiu Guting Xun Xilu·Jibu"). However, he also has many poems that are "worked on carving" (Chen □'s "Selected Poems of Fifteen Poems of the Song Dynasty"), paying special attention to the smooth and smooth pasting of antitheses and their novelty and skill. For example, "In the Mountains": "The white belt follows the red belt, and the appearance of a wooden husband is the same as that of a waterman. I would rather disappear for a few days, and suddenly recall the bell after dinner."; "Feelings": "I don't know the monk A when knocking on the moon, hoeing smoke "It depends on Lao Qi Ding" and so on.
Cigraphy
Fang Yue’s poetry belongs to the Xin Qiji school. Make good use of long tunes to express the hatred between the country and the family.
For example, "Shui Tiao Ge Tou·Pingshan Hall with Dongpo Rhyme" "Drunk eyes are blurred by the river and Luo, and I regret the setting sun", "Xi Migrant Orioles·He and Yu Yifu were walking around and heard about the victory": "If you don't follow the road, how can the world be so big? There are few heroes. They talk and laugh. There are also many poems about longevity and self-birth in the collection, which can often express patriotic sentiments in birthday wishes or self-motivation. His style of poetry is generous and tragic, and his heroic spirit is not inferior to that of Xin Qiji and Liu Guo. His prose style and tendency to use classical and historical language in poetry are also similar to those of Xin and Liu. Wang Pengyun's Ci Ci Engraved by Siyinzhai says that his Ci is not inferior to that of Ye Mengde and Liu Kezhuang, which is also a relatively fair assessment.