Short literary review of "Climbing High"
This poem has only eight short sentences, but it expresses the poet's complex emotions of worrying about the country and the people, and lamenting himself when he is hurt.
There are many wonderful words and sentences in this poem. In this poem, every sentence is antithetical and every word has a rhythm. Hu Yinglin, a man of the Ming Dynasty, praised it as a "broad-minded work" and even said that this poem is "the best in seven-character rhythm in ancient and modern times". For example, in the first couplet, "The wind is strong and the sky is high, the apes are screaming in mourning, and the white birds are flying back from the clear sand in Nagisa." The superposition of images vividly depicts a majestic, lofty, solemn and desolate picture. Another example is the neck couplet, "A sad autumn is often a guest in thousands of miles, and a hundred years of illness only appears on the stage." In just 14 words, it combines the distance of the place, the misery of the time, the long journey, the long journey, the old age, the decline of illness, the absence of relatives and friends, and the high distance. Layers of artistic conception are displayed before our eyes, expressing the loneliness and loneliness of the poet living in a foreign country in the depressed autumn.
This poem is good at expressing the artistic conception through the combination of scenes. For example, the couplet, "The boundless falling trees are rustling, and the endless Yangtze River is rolling in" describes the bleak autumn scenery and the majestic Yangtze River from different perspectives of time and space, vision and hearing. We can also understand it while reading The poet's agitated mood: the fallen leaves and the Yangtze River surging together in autumn, make people lament the twilight of life, lament the shortness and insignificance of human beings, the eternity and irreversibility of nature, and express the melancholy of unfulfilled ambitions.
This poem also pays great attention to the organization of rhythmic poetry. The first couplet breaks the theme and shows us a chilling and desolate autumn scene. The chin couplet unfolds according to the title and writes about what you see when you climb high. The neck couplet deepens the emotion and writes about the poet's loneliness and sorrow when he was a guest in the autumn and was sick on stage. The last couplet closely follows the first couplet, lamenting that my temples are full of frost, my years have passed, but my career has not yet been accomplished, I stopped drinking due to illness, and I have no way to relieve my endless sorrow, and summarizes the whole poem.
It really deserves to be the first verse of Tang poetry!