Original poem: when you ask about the return date, the rain rises in the autumn pool in the evening. When * * * cut the candle at the west window, but talk about the rain at night.
You asked me when I would go back, but I haven't set a date yet. At the moment, evening rain is falling, and the autumn rain is full of Hechi. When can I go back to my hometown, and we can talk while cutting candles under the west window? Then I'll be a guest in Bashan tonight and listen to the drizzle and tell you how lonely I am and how much I miss you! ?
Source: Tang Shangyin's Notes to Northern Friends on a Rainy Night.
Appreciation: This is a lyric poem. The first two sentences of this poem, with questions and answers and descriptions of the immediate environment, illustrate the lonely feelings and deep nostalgia for his wife. The last two sentences imagine the joy of meeting again in the future and compare with the loneliness tonight. The language is shallow and affectionate, implicit and meaningful, well known and memorable.
reference data
Xiao Difei et al. A Dictionary of Appreciation of Tang Poetry. Shanghai: Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, 1983.