The opening sentence of "To the Yueyang Tower" is related to Du Fu's life. I have heard about the fame of Dongting for a long time, but it was not until my twilight years that I realized my wish to see this famous lake. On the surface, climbing Yueyang Tower for the first time was quite enjoyable. In fact, my original intention was to express my unfulfilled ambition in my early days.
In the three years of Dali, Du Fu, who lives in Chengdu, has entered his twilight years after a long period of suffering. Due to the political chaos in Sichuan, he left Sichuan along the river and moved to Hunan. This winter, the wandering poet was lucky enough to climb Yueyang Tower after a rough ride. In the past, he was full of ambitions for life, but now he has gone up in smoke. How can he not have mixed feelings?
"Twelve Summertime Climbing Yueyang Tower" was written in the second year of Gan Yuan. At this time, Li Bai was forgiven and his mood was light. The scenery in front of us seems to be affectionate and interesting, sharing joy and joy: "The geese lead the heart and the mountains hold the moon."
2. Different feelings
"Climbing Yueyang Tower", climbing Yueyang Tower and seeing the mountains and lakes with your own eyes, was a great pleasure in life, but it did not bring much joy to Du Fu, but caused endless sadness. "There is Wu in the east and Chu in the south, and you can see the endless drifting of heaven and earth" to describe the magnificent weather of Dongting Lake. The word "floating day and floating night" is full of emotion in the scene, which means a person's long-term wandering feelings.
"But I haven't heard from my relatives and friends. I am old and sick, and I am alone with my boat." After years of war, I have no news from my relatives and friends, and my whole body is sick. Here, "lone boat" is used to mean no dependence. This aggravated his feelings of self-harm and vagrancy. However, Du Fu did not stop at personal pain, but thought about national affairs.
Therefore, when he stood on the Yueyang Tower next to the porch and looked out, he couldn't help but burst into tears when he remembered the total turmoil caused by the war. In the poet's sorrow for the world, the artistic conception of the whole poem changed from wide to narrow, varied and intense, showing a depressed and frustrated style.
The poet of "Twelve Summer Boarding Yueyang Tower" is full of enthusiasm and fantasy, as if he were in a fairyland: "Even if the cloud stays, the cup will be received in the sky." Accommodation and drinking on Yueyang Tower are like clouds in the sky. Here, the height of the building is written by setting off, exaggerating its towering state. This seems to be an illusion in a drunken trance.
The poet was a little drunk: "drunk, the wind blows people back." A tall building is windy, and it is too cold at high places. It's cool everywhere when I'm drunk, and I'm still writing about building height. The cool breeze blows gently, the sleeves are fluttering, the face is natural and unrestrained, the mood is carefree, the attitude is detached and open-minded, and the lofty sentiments are beyond words. The pen is vivid and contains a strong interest in life.
3. Different technologies
The whole poem "The Story of Climbing Yueyang Tower" is purely a poem, and it is a narrative style from beginning to end. Law is characterized by not paying attention to the language of poetry and the visualization of local things, but paying attention to creating the overall artistic conception of poetry. The whole poem is mainly self-narrative and lyrical, sincere and touching; The description of the scenery is only three or four sentences, which is both true writing and imagination, making the weather in Dongting Lake magnificent and vivid. ?
The whole poem "Twelve Summers Climbing Yueyang Tower" uses the methods of contrast, contrast and exaggeration, without any direct description of the building height. From top to bottom, every sentence looks at the distant, open and towering scenery around Yueyang Tower, but it shows the height of the building everywhere, without the trace of axe chisel, which is naturally muddy and ingenious.
Appreciation of Du Fu's Climbing Yueyang Tower
The couplet in the poem "There is Wu in the east and Chu in the south, and you can see the endless drifting of heaven and earth" refers to the vast Dongting Lake, which is the dividing line between Wu and Chu, and the sun, moon and stars seem to float in the lake. It took only ten words to draw the huge image of Dongting Lake with boundless water potential in a particularly realistic way.
In his later years, Du Fu was already a "southwest man wandering between heaven and earth". Without a place to live, he had to "take the boat as his home". Therefore, it continued: "But I didn't get any news from my relatives or friends. I was old and sick, and I was alone with my boat."
Friends and relatives don't even hear from them at this time, only the old and sick poet is drifting around in a gondola! From here, we can understand what kind of artistic conception the first two sentences "I've heard about Dongting Lake for a long time, and now I've finally climbed this tower" originally contained.
On the surface, the artistic conception of these two poems seems simple: the poet said that he had heard about the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake several years ago, but today he was able to climb Yueyang Tower and see the beautiful scenery of the mountain and lake with his own eyes.
Therefore, Ren Qiu thought, "I have heard about it in the past, and I am very happy to join the board of directors from the beginning." (A Detailed Interpretation of Du Fu's Poems) But only in this way can the original artistic conception of Du Fu's poems be understood too shallowly.
This is not about the pleasure of boarding a plane; But in this plain narrative, there are so many feelings about wandering around the world, lack of talents, vicissitudes of life and strong spirit that I wrote these two sentences: I only heard that there was such a hole in my ear before, but I didn't expect to go to this Yueyang Tower in my next year.
It was originally a feeling of depression, not joy; If it is happiness, it will not be related to "how can I not cry at the railing?" Who finished this sentence?
reference data
Baidu Encyclopedia-Du Fu's "Climbing Yueyang Tower"
Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Bai's "Climbing Yueyang Tower with Summer Twelve"