This poem was written by Li Bai during his stay in Xuancheng, expressing his love and loneliness for Jingting Mountain. Jingting Mountain is a mountain in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. Known as "the first mountain in the south of the Yangtze River". Because of the beautiful scenery and many pavilions, it is a very suitable place to play. Only Jingting Mountain can accompany him and let him feel inner peace and tranquility.
In this poem, Li Bai described his relationship with Jingting Mountain as "never tired of looking at each other". Like a friend, he is not tired of looking at each other, because the beauty and tranquility of the mountain make him feel comfortable and satisfied. At the same time, he also expressed his loneliness.
The whole poem is as follows:
Sitting alone in Jingting Mountain
Tang Libai
The birds flew without a trace, leaving the lonely clouds free and unfettered.
You look at me, I look at you, and there are only my eyes and Jingting Mountain's eyes.
Li Bai's writing characteristics:
1, the language is concise and expressive.
The language of Li Bai's poems is concise and lively, without complicated descriptions and flowery rhetoric, but with concise language to express profound feelings and thoughts. Rhetorical devices such as metaphor, exaggeration and personification are often used in his poems to make them more vivid and move readers.
2. Rich images and lofty artistic conception.
The images in Li Bai's poems are rich and colorful. Through the description of natural landscape and social life, it creates a unique artistic conception and makes readers feel a free and broad-minded spiritual realm. His poems are full of thoughts about life and society, and he uses images to express his thoughts and feelings, which makes readers feel excited and moved in reading.
3, various forms, not stick to one pattern
Li Bai's poems are diverse and eclectic, and he is good at both classical poems and metrical poems, as well as songs and Yuefu poems. His poems include five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains, five-character rhymes and seven-character rhymes, as well as Long song's poems such as Entering Wine and Lushan Ballad, as well as Yuefu poems such as Song of Eternal Sorrow and Song of Autumn Night. Various forms and eclecticism make his poems more artistic and appealing.