Thoughts in the dead of night
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
The foot of my bed is shining so brightly. Is there frost already?
I looked up at the moon and looked down, feeling nostalgic.
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Night thinking: a kind of "quiet night thinking". Guo Maoqian () compiled it into Yuefu Poems and New Yuefu Poems, and said: "All new Yuefu poems are new songs in the Tang Dynasty. With its words, it is actually a Yuefu, but it has never been heard, so it is called a new Yuefu. "
Bright moonlight: bright moonlight.
Look up: Look up. Looking at the Moon: A work called Looking at the Mountains and Rivers and the Moon. Jin's "Qu Ci, Song at Four o'clock in the Midnight": "Looking up at the bright moon, I send my feelings for thousands of miles."
Bow one's head: describe the appearance of meditation. Thinking: Missing.
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Bright moonlight sprinkled on the bed, suspected to be autumn frost.
Look up at the bright moon and look down at homesickness.
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This is a poem about the homesickness of distant guests. This poem uses clear language to carve out the artistic conception of a quiet and intoxicating autumn night. It does not pursue the novelty of imagination, and it also abandons the exquisite beauty of rhetoric; It expresses rich and profound contents with fresh and simple brushwork. Environment is environment, emotion is emotion, so vivid, so moving, never tired of reading, intriguing. No wonder some people praised it as "wonderful ancient and modern" Li Bai's homesickness works, known as "the first homesickness poem through the ages", which touched countless people living in different places in ancient and modern times.
The opening sentence of the poem, "The bright line at the foot of my bed", can be described as plain and simple, which sets off the poet's loneliness with this quiet scene. In the writing of this poem, we can pay attention to the combination of psychological description and behavioral description. The word "doubt" in the second sentence points out the reason why the poet is confused. Because it seems to sleep without sleep, it seems to wake without waking, so it is easy to have illusions. This is the poet's longing for homesickness, so he is in a trance and his eyes are blurred. In the last two sentences, the poet wakes up from meditation, that is, "looking up" and "bowing down". Why do you want to "look up"? Because the poet later realized that it should be moonlight instead of frost on the ground, he had infinite reverie, which was the homesickness expressed in ancient poems about moonlight. For example, "Looking up at the bright moon and sending affection for thousands of miles" he felt that it was not enough to look only at the moonlight on the ground, so he looked up, so that he could see it more truly and clearly, just like looking for the good wishes of distant family members from this bright moon. Looking up for a long time, the deeper I miss, the poet turned and bowed his head again. Why must we "bow our heads"? This is because although I have been looking up for a long time, I still can't get a little comfort from the bright moon. In desperation, I had to bow my head and meditate. If you express your feelings mercilessly, you will express your feelings. If you never intend to write, you will mean truth. Therefore, the poet turned his yearning for his hometown into a gesture of expressing affection for the bright moon. The bright moon on the head, the hometown in my heart, really has a special taste in my heart!
Brief introduction of the author
Li Bai (70 1 ~ 762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "poetic immortal" and is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland.
The poetic style is magnificent and bold, the imagination is rich, the language flows naturally, the melody is harmonious and changeable, and it is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, which constitutes its unique magnificent and gorgeous color and reaches the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.