Li Shangyin was the most outstanding poet in the late Tang Dynasty. After "Da Du Li" (Li Bai and Du Fu) in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he and Du Mu were called "Xiao Du Li". Li Shangyin's contribution to poetry lies in his original "untitled poem". These inscriptions are beautiful, affectionate and implicit, full of symbolic and suggestive colors, which push the lyric art of Tang poetry to a new peak.
In the Tang Dynasty, people advocated and believed in Taoism. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, Li Shangyin was sent to Yuyangshan by his family to learn Taoism. In the meantime, he met and fell in love with Song Huayang, a female Taoist priest in Yuyang Mountain, but their feelings could not be known to outsiders, and there was an irresistible wave of love in the author's heart, so he could only remember his feelings with poems and hide the topic, thus making his poems both vague, graceful and affectionate. According to the examination, there are twenty poems by Li Shangyin entitled Untitled, most of which are poems describing his love. The same is true of this untitled poem, which is the most famous.
This poem is to describe the situation that the two men left each other after a brief meeting in late spring. From the first couplet, "It was long before I met her, and it was longer after we parted, and the east wind started and a hundred flowers blossomed". "East wind" means spring breeze, which means the season; Secondly, the season is pointed out by "hundred flowers", which is for the dusk of spring. In this season, two people who love each other finally come together, but they have to face separation. Meeting each other is extremely "rare", and parting is even more "difficult to give up". Generally speaking, poetry is to write scenery first, and then express feelings; However, here, the author first describes the feelings of separation, and then describes the sad scene, and even highlights the poet's sadness in a "dilemma." The word "difficult" is the poetic eye of the whole article.
Then, the author set two metaphors in the couplets: "The silkworm in spring will weave until it dies, and the candle will drain the wick every night". The appearance of the two images is extremely intimate. Spring Silkworm is a natural inheritance. Compared with silkworm spinning silk and wax shedding tears, Spring Silkworm takes the homonym of silk as thinking, while dying and ashes are compared with doing everything and starting to do things. The witty sentences are natural and convey the unforgettable and unswerving feelings of children. Pain, passion and richness have become eternal famous sentences to express unwavering love. In addition, it also contains a more universal philosophy beyond the content of poetry itself: loyalty to work or career, selfless dedication. The whole sentence is affectionate and full of true feelings, meaningful and intriguing.
Necklace couplets "See the clouds change in the morning mirror, and the evening song dares to be cold in the moon", trying to think about the loneliness after their separation. When dressing in the mirror in the morning, I worry that my hair will turn white because of the suffering of missing; When I whisper to the moon at night, I'm afraid I can't express my thoughts and feel the cold of the moonlight. For the "mirror", it is self-pity; For "month", it is a shadow sheet; Coupled with a "dawn" and a "night" time point, I wrote down all my yearning feelings, so that the image of lovers who were restless because of lovesickness came to the fore.
At the end of the couplet, it reads: "There are no multiple roads from Pengshan to Bluebird. Listen! -bring me what she said! " Is dreamy and mysterious. "Pengshan" originally refers to Penglai, the legendary fairy mountain on the sea. It is very appropriate to mention the lover's residence-the view of the mountain god capital of Yuyang Mountain. "Bluebird" is a mythical bird, which acts as the messenger of the Queen Mother. At that time, the poet was in the Shandong Mountain in Yuyang. Although he and his lover are on the same mountain, the distance is not far, but because their love can't be seen in society, they will encounter various twists and turns and obstacles. The sentence "there are no multiple roads" can be interpreted as "there is no long road" or "there is no other road", but in either case, the poet can only rely on "bluebird" to find out the news, which shows how difficult it is for them to meet! This counterattack "meeting each other late" further highlights the "difficulty in parting" and makes the whole poem full and seamless.