There is a blue mountain line north of the Great Wall.
To the east of the city is a white waterline.
Here you must leave me and drift away,
Like loose grass hundreds of miles away.
I will think of you in the clouds,
So think of me in the sunset.
We waved goodbye,
My horse brays again and again.
Appreciation of Li Bai's poems
This poem was written by Li Bai when he bid farewell to his friends in Xuancheng, Anhui Province in the last year of Tianbao, Xuanzong (about 754).
Xuancheng is the place where Xie Tiao, a great poet of the Southern Qi Dynasty, lived and served as a satrap, with beautiful scenery, and Li Bai has always had a special liking for it.
To the north of the Great Wall is a blue mountain range, and to the east is a white waterline. The first two sentences of this poem not only describe the geographical environment of Xuancheng objectively, but also contain the poet's deep feelings for the place where he lives. At the specific moment of seeing friends off, we should also include the memory of an unforgettable time we spent in this famous city with beautiful mountains and rivers. Judging from the whole poem, the poet rode with his friends and went out of town to the suburbs. Green mountains and green waters are all the scenery he saw before his eyes. But the poet cast this scene into couplets (Qingshan-Baishui, Northland-Dongcheng), which has profound implications. The mountain is close to the city, and the water loves the city; After all, the water will flow away, but the green hills are still there. Isn't this a symbol of reluctance?
So, naturally, the farewell of the second couplet was introduced: "Here, you must leave me and drift away for hundreds of miles like loose grass." The farewell here is a direct narrative of what is happening in front of us, and the embedding of the word "one" strengthens the feeling of singing and sighing, making this poem suddenly look good. The word "solitary Peng" comes from the ancient poem "solitary Peng turns to frost root". Both it and the word "zhuan Peng" are symbols of wandering in poetry, but the word "solitary" emphasizes the significance of separation and isolation. In addition, my friend's trip is far away (Wan Li Sign), so the feeling of farewell is not heavy, and the complicated parting is contained in the sighing voice and implied image.
"I will think of you in the clouds, so I will think of me in the sunset." As if the first two sentences of elegy were not enough, the poet introduced a group of farewell images. "Floating clouds", "sunset" and "lonely canopy" are all commonly used poetic words in farewell poems.
There is an ancient poem in the Han dynasty, clouds cover the sun, and wanderers don't care. In Su Li's poem, there is a saying called "Looking up at the clouds, the election suddenly surpasses the other party." Every storm is lost in a corner of the sky. Li Bai's assignment of "floating clouds" and "sunset" to "wandering feelings" and "old feelings" is actually an intertextual rhetoric. Clouds float out of the hole and the sun sets. This may be the scene when we parted, but the poet moved in his feelings, making the scenery a symbol of reluctance and helplessness.
Needless to say, what is the meaning of "wandering" and what is the feeling of "old human feelings". The sadness of leaving feelings is already in the reader's heart.
A thousand miles to send you, not never say goodbye. "We waved goodbye and my horse kept neighing." The last sentence is a rehash of the old saying of parting. But "you must leave me here and drift away."
It has a sense of the future, while "we wave goodbye" becomes progressive and lyrical. The poet only writes farewell, focusing on two mounts that have been together for a long time, and the parting is relatively long. Ma Shang is so affectionate, not to mention people. "A?vagho?a" was originally a "car case" in The Book of Songs, but the addition of the word "ban" (Ma Su and posthumous title "ban", which came out with Zuo Zhuan) is a renovation of poetry, which can be said to be a fusion of old sayings and ingenuity.
Since the Six Dynasties, the five-character rhyme has formed a certain convention in structure, that is, it generally follows the procedure from solving the problem to writing the scenery and finally expressing emotion. On the other hand, Li Bai's seeing friends off is different. Basically, they write about the scenery-express their feelings-rewrite the scenery (figurative)-re-express their feelings, from "you must leave me here and drift away" to "we wave goodbye", forming a spiral structure, which is quite touching. Poets try to avoid expressing their feelings directly, and repeatedly use natural images such as mountains, rivers, clouds and the sun as metaphors to set off other feelings. Finally, he ended with a long Ma Si, with a deep aftertaste.