Author: Bai Juyi years: Tang genre: word category: unknown
Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog,
It came in the middle of the night and left at dawn.
Come like a spring dream,
When they leave, they are like clouds in the morning.
Precautions:
1 flowers are not flowers, and fog is not fog: are they flowers? This is not a flower. Is it fog? Not fog.
Come like a sentence: it was like a spring dream when I came, and I didn't stay long.
Leaving is like a sentence: after leaving, it is like a cloud floating in the morning, with nowhere to see.
This is a love poem. Say flowers are not flowers, say fog is not fog, this is not flowers, this is not fog, flowers are pointed, fog is a metaphor. I can't speak, but I can't tell the truth-it's midnight and morning, and there are no flowers or fog, obviously someone is coming. Who comes and who goes? Hide without spitting. Why did you come? There are not many spring dreams and endless aftertaste; I'm sorry. Spring dreamer, Chun Qing also; Those who face the clouds, "when facing the clouds, it is raining at dusk, under the balcony." This poem is composed of a series of metaphors, and its description is obscure and true. Alan Yu is a masterpiece of love poems with its clear rhythm and intricate beauty. Later generations used it to compose music, which was widely circulated.
-Quoted from Appreciation of All Tang Poems edited by Li Jizhou/
Bai Juyi's poems are not only famous for their simple language, but also for their beautiful artistic conception. This poem "flowers are not flowers" is quite hazy, and it is indeed a special case in white poetry.
The first three words in the poem are almost "untitled". The first two sentences should be read as "flowers-non-flowers, fog-non-fog", which gives people an unpredictable feeling first. Both "non-flower" and "non-fog" are negative, but they all contain a self-evident premise: like flowers, like fog. Therefore, it can be said that these are two clever metaphors. Su Dongpo seems to have got a little inspiration from this, and wrote the famous sentence "Like a flower, it is still like a non-flower, and no one repents of teaching" ("Water"). Su Ci chants catkins, while Bai Shi's is not obvious. But from the narrative of "coming at midnight and leaving at dawn", we can see that the metaphor here is flowers and fog, for example, what is sung is fleeting and difficult to last.
Just watching "come at midnight and leave at dawn" makes readers doubt that they are talking about dreams. But it can be seen from the next sentence "coming like a spring dream" that it is not. "Dream" turned out to be a comparison. Here, the words "come" and "go" play a connecting role in sound and emotion, thus giving birth to two vivid metaphors. Those who "came in the middle of the night" had a spring dream, which was beautiful but short-lived, and then led to a question: "How long will it be like a spring dream?" "Xiao" sees the morning glow. Although the cloud is beautiful, it is easy to be disillusioned, which leads to a sigh: "The cloud seems to be nowhere to be found".
Poetry consists of a series of metaphors, which are called metaphors. The two are closely linked, like clouds and water, and written naturally. Repeatedly highlight an unexplained metaphor with vivid images. There are many examples of making good use of metaphors in poetry, such as Nineteen Ancient Poems (bright moon and bright night), There is a dispute between the north and the south, and the morning glory bears the yoke, and Yichuan Tobacco, Wind in the City, Plum Yellow Rain written by He Zhu in Jade Case. However, these metaphors are only part of the poem, and the metaphors that run through this poem are rare. Furthermore, the above example compares the astrology such as Nanji, Beidou and Petunia, which means "what is the benefit of writing"; Compared with the scenes of tobacco, catkins and plum rain, the latter situation means "asking how much is idle", and its metaphor (metaphorical thing) is clear. And this poem only sees metaphor (used as metaphor) and doesn't know metaphor, just like an intriguing mystery. In this way, the artistic conception of poetry is covered with a layer of "hazy" color.
Even so, the poetry of this poem is not completely obscure and elusive. It was compiled by the author in a relatively concentrated "sentimental" department, and the same department also has similar emotional works. The first one is "The Tomb of the True Mother", which reads: "Frost destroys the wind of peaches and plums, and the true mother was still a teenager when she died. Fat skin and fat hands are not strong, so it is difficult to stay in the world. Difficult to stay, easy to sell, Saibei flower, Jiangnan snow. " The other is Bamboo Slips Poem, which reads: "first frost's peach blossoms are exhausted in February, I want to marry next year and die this year", and "most good things are not firm, colorful clouds are easy to disperse, and glass is broken". Both poems are mourning works, and the metaphor of the last sentence, especially the "Saibei Flower" and "Caiyun" which are easy to disperse, is different from this poem. The poem "Flower is not a flower" is closely compiled after "Bamboo Slip Poetry", which tells readers a piece of news about the poem's return to interest. This poem and Song of Jane were written for the same purpose at the same time.
This poem adopts the form of alternating three sentences and seven sentences (this is the flexible use of the three-seven-seven sentence pattern of folk songs at that time), which has both orderly rhythm and intricate aesthetic feeling, and is very similar to later poems. Therefore, later generations actually adopted this rhyme method as the tone of words, with "flowers are not flowers" as the tone name. A major change in the content of the May 7th poem is that the words tend to express people's inner feelings. At this point, this poem is similar to this word. It is natural that this phenomenon of "poetry is like fine print" appeared in the works of Bai Juyi, a poet engaged in ci creation in the early Tang Dynasty.