Ouyang Xiu's "Thrushcross Birds" is a poem about objects, which is different from leisurely flower-and-bird works, as well as ordinary poems about objects and poems about the bosom. This is a philosophical poem with profound significance and interest. By praising the free life of thrush, this poem expresses the poet's melancholy feelings after being relegated, and shows the poet's eager desire and pursuit for free life. At the same time, it also expresses the poet's strong hatred and denial of all kinds of bondage and imprisonment that bind personality and suppress talent.
wood thrush
Ouyang Xiu [Song Dynasty]
The cries of thousands of birds echo their own hearts, and thousands of purple flowers on the mountain are on the height of trees.
Only then did I understand that listening to the cry of the thrush locked in a golden cage is far less than singing leisurely in the forest.