Original poem
Sitting alone in Jingting Mountain
li po
Birds fly high,
Lonely clouds go to leisure alone.
Never tired of looking at each other,
Just Jingting Mountain and me.
Poetry appreciation
The first two sentences, "Birds fly high, and the lonely clouds go to leisure alone", seem to write the scene in front of them, but in fact they write all the sad feelings: several birds fly high in the sky until they disappear without a trace; There is still a white cloud in the vast sky, but I don't want to stay and drift away slowly, as if everything in the world is rejecting poets. The words "exhausted" and "doing nothing" lead readers to a realm of "peace": it seems that after eliminating the noise of a group of birds in the mountains, they feel particularly peaceful; After the thick rolling clouds disappeared, I felt particularly quiet. So these two sentences are written as "dynamic" to see "static", and "static" is defined by "dynamic". This "quietness" reflects the loneliness and loneliness of the poet's mind. This vivid writing can give readers association, and imply that the poet has been visiting Jingting Mountain for a long time, outlining his image of "sitting alone" and paving the way for the next couplet "never tired of looking at each other".
The images of these two sentences are juxtaposed in the form of "the stars arch the moon". The central word "bird" in the previous sentence is the central image, and the word "fly" is added to form a compound image, which strengthens the dynamic expression meaning. Birds can remind readers of the quiet and peaceful scene in the mountains. Birds are singing euphemistically in the empty mountains, which makes them interesting. At present, birds fly high and get farther and farther away from people. "Height" obviously plays a role in expanding space. Look up, in the empty blue sky, the birds are flying away until they can't be seen! The word "do" enhances the expressive force of this sentence, and you can imagine Li Bai's melancholy at this time. The last sentence "cloud" is the central word, which is compounded with "go", and the silent cloud is drifting away. And clouds are not all over the sky, just "solitary clouds" without companions, just drifting away leisurely and slowly. The poet used "leisure" to write the state of the solitary cloud, highlighting the process of leaving, so that readers can feel the poet's inner helplessness when they taste the state of the solitary cloud leaving.
The words "exhausted" and "doing nothing" lead readers to a realm of "peace": it seems that after eliminating the noise of a group of birds in the mountains, they feel particularly peaceful; I feel very quiet after the thin clouds disperse. They all seem to be spiritual, unwilling to associate with poets, leaving only a vast space, where poets are more lonely and small. In fact, there are countless birds in the mountains, and clouds will not float into the sky. In the poem, all the birds and lonely clouds leave the poet, which is the result of the poet's emotional projection and the boundless space for the poet to express his lonely feelings. This vivid writing can remind readers that Li Bai has been sitting there for some time. He watched the birds and lonely clouds fly away gradually, and all the birds and lonely clouds left Jingting Mountain. Only he is still sitting there enjoying it, sketching his image of "sitting alone" and paving the way for the next couplet "Never tire of looking at each other".
Three or four sentences, "Never tire of seeing it, only Jingting Mountain", personify Jingting Mountain in a romantic way. Although the bird flew away, the poet didn't go back, and he didn't want to go back. He stared at the quiet and beautiful Jingting Mountain for a long time and felt that Jingting Mountain seemed to be looking at himself affectionately. There is no need to say anything between them, and they have reached emotional communication. "Never tire of looking at each other" expresses the deep feelings between the poet and Jingting Mountain. "Xiang" and "Liang" are synonymous, which closely connects the poet with Jingting Mountain and shows strong feelings. At the same time, Looking at each other also points out that at this moment, only the lonely scene of "mountain" and "me" is as important as the word "two", and the interdependence between mountains and people arises spontaneously. The word "only" in the conclusion is also tempered, which highlights the poet's love for Jingting Mountain. "It is enough to have a bosom friend in life", and it is not worth mentioning that birds fly away! The artistic conception created by these two poems is still "quiet". On the surface, it is written that the poet looks at Jingting Mountain with deep affection. In fact, the more poets write about the "sentimentality" of mountains, the more they show people's "ruthlessness"; And his lonely and desolate situation is revealed in this quiet scene.
The moving images of "birds" and "solitary clouds" are opposite to the static images of "Jingting Mountain". There are only quantitative changes in time and space dimensions, but qualitative changes in psychological dimensions. Scholar-officials with ideals and talents are suppressed by politics, and they are often particularly sensitive to "passing away" and "dissipating". The personnel are short-lived and the universe is eternal, which is often the case. It may be a practice after "Chang 'an can't see it" to introduce famous mountains through the ages as bosom friends. If Chang 'an has a crush on him, won't he fly with the birds?
In the poet's pen, Jingting Mountain has no beautiful mountains, no beautiful streams and no beautiful bridges. It's not that Jingting Mountain has nothing to write about. Jingting Mountain is "Wanxi in the east, the city in the south, the smoke market sailing, picturesque", but picturesque? We have no way of knowing the poet's position relative to the mountain, perhaps at the top of the mountain or in the open area, but these are not important. The purpose of writing this poem is not to praise the scenery, nor to express feelings through the scenery, but to express inner helplessness through the quiet scenery here. The poet found solace in the anthropomorphic Jingting Mountain and seemed to feel less lonely. However, it is here that the poet's inner loneliness is more prominent. The deep loneliness in the world and the tragic atmosphere of the poet's life are full of the whole poem. The whole poem seems to be full of scenery language, but there is no emotional language. However, because scenery is created by emotion, although every sentence is a scenery, every sentence is an emotion, just like Wang Fuzhi said, "There is a scene in love, and there is love in the scene." Shen Deqian's "Tang Poetry" commented: "Pass on the God of Sitting Alone." [ 1]
[Edit this paragraph] Author introduction
Li Bai (70 1-762), whose real name is Taibai, was called "Poet Fairy", a great romantic poet in Tang Dynasty. His poetic style is bold and unconstrained, with rich imagination, natural and fluent language and harmonious and changeable melody. He is good at absorbing nutrients from folk songs and myths, forming his unique magnificent and gorgeous colors, which is the new peak of positive romantic poetry since Qu Yuan. Li Bai is called "Poet Fairy", and is also called "Du Li" with poet Du Fu. There are nearly a thousand poems, including Li Taibai's collection.
[Edit this paragraph] Creation background
Jingting Mountain, located in Xuanzhou (now Xuancheng, Anhui), is a famous county in the south of the Yangtze River since the Six Dynasties. Great poets such as Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao once served as satrap here. Li Bai traveled to Xuancheng seven times in his life. This five-line poem was written when he visited Xuanzhou in the autumn of the twelfth year of Tianbao (753). It is written when Li Bai left Chang 'an and came to Xuancheng after ten years of wandering. The long-term wandering life made Li Bai taste the bitterness of the world and see through the coldness of the world, thus deepening his dissatisfaction with reality and increasing his sense of loneliness. However, his arrogance and stubbornness remain the same as before. During this period, he wrote a lot of poems to relieve his depression by wandering around immortals and drinking, and also wrote a lot of poems to express his feelings and feelings. The interest of this poem when sitting alone in Jingting Mountain is a portrayal of the poet's life with lonely feelings and seeking comfort in the embrace of nature.