Reflections on the Polysemy of Li Shangyin's Untitled Poems

Why is there no title? There are two possibilities. One is that he can't think of the right title himself, and the other is that he doesn't want to be crowned with the right title. But every untitled poem should be considered in combination with the content of the poem, the author's characteristics, fate and mood at that time. In this way, even later scholars may not be able to explore the poet's intention to write poetry at that time. Because, on the one hand, every poem is the product of a specific social and historical period and the product of the poet's thinking processing, so the research object has historical complexity and psychological complexity, which is extremely complicated; On the other hand, people who read poetry later are different, and they all have their own unique knowledge structure and thinking habits. Therefore, the research object is also very complex. Reading the same poem, different people will have different understandings, and everyone will think that their understanding is in line with the poet's original intention. This is the difficulty of poetry research, but it may also be the charm of poetry!

What best embodies his creative characteristics is his untitled poems. Untitled poetry attracts readers from generation to generation with its uncertain content, unique form, hazy artistic conception and sentimental artistic conception. Li Shangyin immersed his lifelong pursuit, pain and anxiety in untitled poems, which made his poems have an indescribable dreamy and ethereal beauty, and untitled poems also established his position in the history of China literature. Li Shangyin wrote untitled poems instead of untitled poems.

The so-called hazy beauty, as the name implies, is a kind of beauty that can't be said but can only be felt.

In his official career, Li Shangyin is a depressed person, even a person abandoned by politics. In love, he pursues a relatively free love, but the cruel reality makes it difficult for him to do it, especially in his later years, when his beloved wife died, he felt helpless and miserable in life. Because of his own sensitivity and years of wandering, he vaguely felt the fate of "to see the sun, for all his glory, buried in the coming night" in the Tang Dynasty. All this is trapped in his heart, creating his surging, sad and depressed mood, leaving him at a loss and helpless. It is precisely because of this that his poems have neither the passionate and optimistic atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, nor the simple or peculiar style of the middle Tang Dynasty, Korea and Mencius. What he described is no longer the external world that poets used to pay attention to, but the human spirit and soul. He tried to express the inner universe of human beings, even though he wrote specific characters and landscapes, it was only to express human psychology and spirit.

His feelings are obscure, and he can't understand A Song with Two Tears without similar emotional experience. "It's no use until I'm crazy" is a secret revealed in his heart, and he still can't win all kinds of helplessness after devoting himself wholeheartedly. His feelings are dignified and profound, which is unmatched by other poets. "But how does it ease my heart!" Although disappointed, I have no regrets. This unrepentant spirit is also reflected in his other poems.

From my early years, I worked hard and I was full of enthusiasm. "In those days, the horse wanted to seal Hou", life was stormy and things were ups and downs. "I rode to the edge of town. I watch the "chaotic world" on the horizon day after day. I feel lonely and helpless, only melancholy and madness in the depths of melancholy.