Reading the Nine Poems of the Yuan Dynasty in the Boat
Bai Juyi
I rolled up Jun's poems and read them in front of the lamp.
My eyes hurt and I turned off the lights but still sat in darkness, the wind blew against the sound of waves and boats.
Note Yuan Jiu: Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi’s friend. This poem was written while the author was being demoted to Jiangzhou, while Yuan Zhen had been demoted to Tongzhou five months ago.
Related test questions and reading answers
(1). The first three sentences of this poem use the word "lamp" together to create the concepts of "reading poems in front of a lamp" and "the poem is exhausted and the lamp remains" Three images of "turning off the lights and sitting in silence". What kind of artistic conception does writing like this create?
Answer: It created a desolate environment in the dark night, a miserable mood in longing, and a desolate life in relegation.
(2) What is the meaning of the fourth sentence in the poem "The waves against the wind reach the sound of the boat"?
Answer: It clearly describes the strong winds and waves in the river, implying the dangerous political turmoil.
3. Some people say that the tone of this poem is "miserable". Do you agree with this statement? Tell me your reasons?
Answer: Agree. The poem literally means "reading your poems", but the theme is "remembering the people of Sri Lanka". Later, the story of the people of Sri Lanka drifts away, and then turns to the emotion of "the same people who have fallen into the world", so the tone is miserable.
4. In the first three lines of the poem, what kind of thoughts and feelings does the poet express by reflecting three highly personalized scenes: "in front of the lamp", "the lamp is broken" and "the lamp is out"?
Answer: "In front of the lamp", "The lamp is broken" and "Extinguish the lamp" describe a process: from "reading poems", to "finishing poems", to "sitting in silence", the friendship expressed is It is sincere, but the environment is gloomy and the poet's mood is gloomy - on the one hand it is the deep nostalgia for his close friends, on the other hand it is the gloom and desolation in his heart.
5. What expression techniques are used to describe the scene described in the last sentence of the poem? What picture is painted?
Answer: The last sentence of the poem uses puns and metaphors. The author paints a picture with rich symbolic meaning, in which anger is seen in sorrow, justice and private anger are melted into one furnace. The emotions are complex, the capacity is huge, and it is full of feelings of grief, indignation and injustice. On the one hand, "the sound of waves and boats against the wind" is the real situation of the poet reading poems on a rainy night in the boat. On the other hand, the stormy waves are used as a metaphor for the dangerous and unpredictable political storms, and are a metaphor for the sudden and unexpected events that happened to him and his close friends at the same time. The unexpected spiritual cry also contains the feeling of comforting each other in adversity with like-minded friends.
Translation
Hold your poem in front of a lamp and read it.
After reading the poem, the lamp is almost out and the sky is not yet bright (this disability may refer to Residue may also refer to not much left).
(Reading the poem) My eyes hurt, I turned out the light and still sat in the dark,
The headwind (opposite to the tailwind) blew the waves (Bai Juyi was riding) boat.
Appreciation:
In 815 AD (the 10th year of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty), Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng was assassinated and died. Bai Juyi wrote a letter demanding that the murderer be severely punished. As a result, he offended the powerful and was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. . He was driven out of Chang'an, arrived in Xiangyang in September, then floated on the Han River, entered the Yangtze River, and went east to Jiujiang. During this lonely journey of exile, he missed his good friend Yuan Zhen, who had been exiled to Tongzhou (the state government is now Daxian, Sichuan) five months earlier. During the long water journey, one late autumn night, accompanied by the flickering lights, the poet carefully read Wei Zhi's poems and wrote the poem "Reading the Nine Poems of the Yuan Dynasty in the Boat".
This little poem, literally "Reading a Jun's Poetry", has the theme of "remembering the people", and it turns from the misfortunes of the "people" to the emotion of "the same fallen people in the world" , the poetic state changes one by one, becomes deeper and painful. "My eyes hurt and I still sit in darkness with the lights out", I have been reading for most of the night, and it is almost dawn, but the poet still has to "sit in darkness" and refuses to go to bed. The reader will naturally think that because he misses Wei Zhi, he also thinks of bad people in power and the government becoming increasingly unstable. Therefore, he is filled with surging emotions and cannot sleep peacefully. At this moment, he was sitting in a small boat. As the boat descended into the river, strong winds and huge waves kept rolling up; in my mind and eyes, it seemed as if a gloomy picture of the world suddenly appeared. The wind and waves turned into "the sound of waves blowing against the wind and hitting boats"; this is a picture rich in symbolic meaning, in which anger is seen in sorrow, justice and private feelings are melted into one furnace, the emotions are complex, and the capacity is huge.
Bitterness is the keynote of this little poem. This kind of miserable feeling has been rendered very strong through the environment, atmosphere and color displayed by words such as "lamp burner", "poetry is exhausted", "eye pain" and "sitting in darkness", forming a kind of feeling for readers. Heavy pressure. To the point of "eye pain and sitting in darkness with the lights off", the pressure is simply beyond what a person can bear. Suddenly there are waves of "the sound of the wind blowing and the waves hitting the boat", like the wailing of Saima and the sobbing of Hujia, which are involved in the readers' ears and hearts. This voice was full of grief and anger. After reading the poem, it is natural to feel restless, just like Han Yu did when listening to Master Ying playing the piano: "I pushed my hands to stop suddenly, and my clothes were wet with tears." The first three sentences of the poem build up momentum and express emotions in the narrative; the last sentence suddenly opens the floodgates of emotion, letting the whirlpool roar and rush down, causing the music to end on the strongest note, and receiving the "four strings sound like cracking silk" The most intense musical effect.
If recited repeatedly, readers will also discover another musical feature of this little poem. Poets have always been most afraid of "repetition", that is, repeated words should not be used in a poem, especially in short poems. This quatrain is a departure from the norm. Three of the four sentences use the word "lamp". However, when reading this poem, I don't feel repetitive at all, I just feel that it flows more naturally than usual.
It turns out that the poet uses the word "lamp" as a colorful thread to thread a string of pearls, forming a sentence-to-sentence effect in rhythm, which deepens the emotions layer by layer: reading at night with a lamp in hand shows how much he misses; reading until the lamp is broken, It means longing for someone; turning off the lamp and sitting in darkness means longing deeply and painfully. The syllables are continuous and euphemistic, like a golden snake circling down, which strengthens the power of expression. The first three sentences of this poem use the word "lamp" together to create three images: "reading poems in front of a lamp", "the poem is gone and the lamp is broken", and "sit in darkness with the lamp out". This writing creates a desolate environment in the dark night, a miserable mood in longing, and a desolate artistic conception of life in relegation.