Jiangnan Song
Era: Tang Author: Li Yi Genre: Yuefu
Married to Qutang Jia, but the concubine was mistakenly dated.
If you had known the trend and had faith, you would have married into the trend.
This poem conveys the tone and thoughts of a business woman through line drawing. The first two lines of the poem, "Married to Qutang Jia, missed the concubine's date in court", are talking about a sad and deplorable fact, but the language used is plain and simple, without any description or coloring. When we appreciate poetry, we will find that some poems require the help of depiction and coloring, while some poems are known for their plainness. They often see emotion in plainness and impress readers with plainness. This is because the things he writes have the power of appeal. The more plain the expression means, the easier it is for readers to see the truth and original form of things, and thus it is easier to attract readers. These two sentences have achieved such an artistic effect. Moreover, as far as a poem is concerned, the layout should match the flat and odd parts. The reason why the poet strives to be plain in the first half of the poem is to contrast and achieve a balance with the whims and strange words that will appear in the second half of the poem.
The two lines in the second half of the poem, "If I had known the tide would be true, I would have married and followed the tide." suddenly stirred up waves from the ground, expressing the young woman's resentment in a tortuous and vivid way with a pen that moved from the sky. According to the content of the first half of the poem, if it were written straightforwardly, the young woman should probably be allowed to complain about her husband's untrustworthiness and express her own depression. However, the readers never expected that the poet actually allowed the young woman to have a whimsical thought of the tide. I believe, so I regret not marrying a trendy person. This shows the young woman's depressed mood from an unusual angle in a more profound way. In fact, there is faith in the trend, but those who follow the trend may not have faith. I would rather "marry a person who is in the trend", which is not only foolish and naive words, but also bitter and helpless words. This young woman didn't really want to remarry. The word "had known" was used here. She just hurt herself in extreme depression, thought over it, and regretted it.