Dynasty: Tang Dynasty Author: Du Fu
The breeze rippled on the grassy coast, through the night, and blew to my still mast.
The endless plains are dotted with drooping stars. The moon runs with the river.
I hope my art can bring me fame and liberate my sick old age from the office! .
Flying around, flying around, what am I like, just a sandpiper in the vast world! .
The breeze blows the fine grass on the river bank, and the high-masted boat is moored alone at night. The stars are hanging in the sky, and Ye Ping looks very broad; The moonlight is surging with the waves, and the river is rolling eastward. Is my article famous? You should be dismissed even if you are old and sick. What's it like to wander around alone? Like a lonely Sha Ou between heaven and earth.
Appreciation of A Night Abroad
This poem is a famous sentence in Du Fu's five rhymes, which has always been praised. The comment of Four Poems on this poem is "the syntax is rigorous, and the word' use' is particularly strange." Ji Yunyu was quoted in A Review of Ying Kui Fa and Sui Hui: "He is full of energy, full of weather, and can be a hero."
The first half of the poem describes the scene of "night tour": the breeze blows the fine grass on the river bank, and the high-mast boat is moored alone on the moonlit night. At that time, Du Fu was forced to leave Chengdu. In the first month of 765 A.D., he resigned from our post, and in April, his good friend Yanwu died. In this remote place, I decided to leave East Sichuan. Therefore, this is not a vague description of the scenery, but a feeling of the scenery. Through the description of the scenery, his situation and feelings are expressed: small as grass on the river bank and lonely as a boat in the river. The third and fourth sentences write a vision: the stars are low and Ye Ping is vast; The moon surges with the waves, and the river flows eastward. These two sentences are magnificent, profound and have always been praised. Some people think that the poet's feelings in these two landscape poems are "broad-minded" (Pu Yin Long's Reading), while others think that he wrote "happy" feelings (see Five Laws of Du Fu, a Collection of Tang Poems). This poem is about the tragic situation of the poet wandering in his later years. The above two explanations only emphasize the literal meaning of the poem. In fact, the poet wrote about the vast Ye Ping, the mighty rivers and the splendid stars and moons just to reflect his lonely image and his sad mood. This technique of writing sadness with joy is often used in classical works. For example, "The Book of Songs Xiaoya Cai Wei": "I was not there in the past, Liu Yiyi." It is very touching to set off the sadness of the soldiers who went to war with the beautiful scenery of spring.
The second half of the poem is "Shu Huai". The fifth and sixth sentences say, "I'm a bit famous. Where is it because my article is good? You should retire as an official because you are old and sick. " This is irony, and this idea is implicit. The poet has great ambitions, but he has been suppressed for a long time and cannot display them. They can "write" (poems), but at that time, people won't be famous for their good articles. I became a small official, but I had to retire. Du Fu was really old and sick at this time, but his retirement was mainly due to being excluded, not being old and sick. It shows the injustice in the poet's heart and reveals that frustration is the fundamental reason for his wandering loneliness. Regarding the meaning of this couplet, it is not appropriate to say that it is "the language of self-blame" ("Du Shi Shuo") and Qiu said that "five belong to self-modesty, and six belong to self-interpretation" ("Detailed Notes on Du Shaoling Collection"). The last two sentences say, "You look like you're floating all over? Just like Europe in "The Universe". " Considering the situation at that time, the poet expressed his sadness. The water and sky are vast, and Sha Ou falls; People, like Sha Ou, move in the rivers and lakes. This couplet is lyrical, touching and touching.