Write nightingales, long-legged rails, streams, bright moons, nature, etc. as people, give them human movements and emotions, give people a friendly and natural feeling, and make them more vivid and vivid. It shows the poetic and picturesque nature of night, making this poem more contagious.
The whole poem is rich in the sentiment of old poetry. With just a few strokes, it outlines a beautiful picture of movement in silence and full of sound and color. At the same time, it has the poet's own style, just like the last line. These two sentences personify the reed through "makeup" and "beautiful face", adding some interest and vitality to the whole poem.
The overall framework of this poem adopts the popular short verse style at that time. Small descriptions, concise outlines, prose sentence patterns, and impromptu expressions all show the style of Tagore and Japanese haiku. Liu Dabai focuses on the integration of emotion and scenery in the process of describing nature. This is the so-called combination of poetry and painting and the blending of scenes in old poetry.
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Creative background
In the 1920s, poets who wrote new poetry were greatly influenced by old poetry, so the new poetry at that time had Very strong old poetry style. Except that they are expressed in vernacular, the artistic conception and expression techniques of poems are often not much different from those of old poems. This was a major feature of poetry at that time.
The same is true for Liu Dabai. Although he wanted to write pure vernacular poetry, the rhythm of this poem still followed the original requirements of classical poetry, so it can still be seen that it was influenced by old poetry. "On the River in the Autumn Evening" was created under this environment.