Whether it's flat or mountain top,
Infinite scenery is occupied.
After the flowers are collected into honey,
Hard for whom, sweet for whom.
Author: Luo Yin Dynasty: Tang Dynasty genre: seven-character quatrains
Metric system: ○ level tone ● sound ⊙ level tone △ level tone ▲ rhyme.
Whether it's flat or mountain top,
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Infinite scenery is occupied.
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After the flowers are collected into honey,
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Hard for whom, sweet for whom.
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Appreciate:
Bees and butterflies have become symbols of charm in the poet's works. However, little bees are different from China after all. It has been working hard to make honey all its life, accumulating a lot, but enjoying very little. Around this point, the poet Luo Yin wrote such an "animal story" with deep feelings. Its meaning alone is refreshing. The artistic expression of this poem is noteworthy in three aspects:
First, to grasp the reason, we must be strong. This poem focuses on the feelings of the last two sentences, giving bees a lifetime of career, with nothing but "hard work". But the first two sentences are almost boastful, saying that whether it is a plain field or a mountain, where flowers bloom, there is a bee's territory.
Here, the author uses extreme adverbs and adjectives, such as "no matter", "infinite", "exhausted" and unconditional sentences, saying that bees "occupy all the scenery" seems to contradict the theme. In fact, this is just the opposite statement, trying to grasp the reason and putting on airs for the last two sentences. As the saying goes, if you lift it high, you will fall hard. So the last two sentences are the inversion of the first two sentences, saying that bees pick flowers into honey, and I don't know whose it is. If the word "occupy" is swept away, the expression effect will be stronger. If I had written from the beginning, I wouldn't be so powerful.
Second, the narrative backchat, singing sigh sentient beings. This poem uses narrative and discussion techniques, but the discussion is not explicitly issued, but said in a rhetorical tone. The first two sentences are mainly narrative, while the last two sentences are mainly discussion. The last two sentences, three main narratives and four main discussions. "Picking a hundred flowers" means "hard work" and "becoming honey" means "sweetness".
However, due to the difference between the main narrative and the main exposition, the last two sentences have the meaning of repetition and have no sense of repetition. It turns out that the rhetorical question only means: who are you sweet for and who are you willing to work for? But it is divided into two questions: "Who are you working for?" "Sweet for whom"? Also repeated and not repeated. Obviously, hard work belongs to oneself, and sweetness belongs to others. Repeated chanting makes people deeply moved. The poet is full of pity.
Third, it is profound and can be interpreted in two ways. This poem captures the characteristics of bees without affectation, painting or rhetoric. Although plain and thoughtful, it allows readers to learn something from this "animal story" and feel that it contains a feeling of life. Some people say that this poem is really a sigh of the world's efforts to benefit the rich; Some people think that bees are used to praise hard-working workers, while those exploiters who get something for nothing are mercilessly satirized. These two solutions are similar, but both are allowed.
Because there are two kinds of "fable" poems: one is that the author makes a metaphor for some kind of preaching, and the meaning is simple and certain; The other is that the author looks at things with strong feelings and makes things look like people, which can also be used for reference, but the "meaning" is not so simple. In such a poem, the author probably saw the shadow of the bitter days at that time from the "story" of bees, but he just wrote down the "story" without direct preaching or specific comparison, and his image was more flexible.
In real life, bitter life has different meanings, and there are two main similarities with bees: one is the so-called "bitter to the end, eyes closed for a long time" (A Dream of Red Mansions); One is "hoe the ground?" The invasion of the stars and the head of Xiaomi belong to others. "This makes readers have different understandings in two senses.