Original text:
A gift for Wang Lun.
Tang Libai
Li Bai was just about to leave when he heard a farewell song from the shore.
Even if the Peach Blossom Pond is deep, it is not as deep as Wang Lun's sending away my love.
Precautions:
Tap dance: a folk singing form, which can beat time with your feet while singing, or sing while walking.
Taohuatan: It's 100 miles southwest of Jingxian County, Anhui Province. The unified yearbook calls it unfathomable.
Deep thousands of feet: People compare Wang Lun's friendship to thousands of feet, and write deep feelings and friendship in an exaggerated way (deep thousands of feet is not true), which is very touching.
Less than: less than.
Wang Lun: Li Bai's friend. When Li Bai visited Taohuatan in Qiongxian County (now Anhui Province), Wang Lun from nearby Jia Cun often entertained Li Bai with his own wine, and they formed a deep friendship.
Translation:
Li Bai was about to leave when he heard a farewell song from the shore.
Even if the Peach Blossom Lake reaches thousands of feet, it can't compare with Wang Lun's Farewell to Me.
Appreciate:
The first half of the poem is narrative: first write about the people who are leaving, and then write about the people who are seeing them off, showing a picture of parting. The first sentence "by boat" means by water. "Will want to go" means that the canoe is ready to go. This sentence makes the reader seem to be saying goodbye to the people on a ship that is about to leave the shore.
"Suddenly I heard the song on the shore", and then I wrote goodbye. The second sentence is not as direct as the first sentence, but with a curved pen, just saying that I heard the song. A group of villagers walked and sang to the beat to see me off. This seems to be beyond Li Bai's expectation, so he said "suddenly smell" instead of "far smell". Although this poem is more subtle, I only hear its voice, but people who have not seen it are already coming out. Wang Lun's arrival was really unexpected. Smell it before people arrive. This farewell shows that Li Bai and Wang Lun are both informal, happy and free people.
The second half of this poem is lyrical. The third sentence is connected from a distance, which further shows that the ship is placed in Taohuatan. "Deep thousands of feet" not only describes the characteristics of the pool, but also indicates the conclusion. The Peach Blossom Pond is so deep that it touches people's hearts and unforgettable Wang Lun's deep affection. The water depth is naturally connected with affection. At the end of the sentence, "not as good as Wang Lun's" broke out. By comparing things, it vividly expressed sincere and pure affection. The pool is "deep in thousands of feet", and the friendship between Wang Lun and Li Bai is bound to be deeper. This sentence is intriguing. The beauty here lies in the word "less than", and the beauty lies in replacing metaphor with concrete means, turning intangible friendship into vivid image, ethereal and memorable, natural and true. The poet was very moved, so he praised Wang Lun's admiration and love for the poet with two lines of "Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, and Wang Lun loves me less", and also expressed Li Bai's deep affection for Wang Lun.
About the author:
Li Bai (70 1 ~ 762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "Poet Fairy" and is called "Da Du Li" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is magnificent and bold, the imagination is rich, the language is natural and fluent, the melody is harmonious and changeable, and it is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, which constitutes its unique magnificent and gorgeous color and reaches the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.