Miscellaneous Poems in the Mountains
Written by Wu Jun, a writer of the Southern Dynasties
See the smoke coming from the mountains, and glimpse the setting sun in the bamboos.
Birds fly to the eaves, and clouds come out of the window.
Translation
The place where the mountain meets the sky is filled with mist and mist.
The afterglow of the sunset falls through the gaps in the bamboo forest.
Birds flew happily on the eaves,
White clouds actually floated out of the window.
Appreciation:
The poem describes the interesting life of the poet living in the mountains: surrounded by peaks, lush bamboo trees, birds flying on the eaves of other people's houses, and clouds floating out of the windows. This secluded residence wipes away all the dust of the world and expresses the poet's comfortable and leisurely mood casually and vividly. The whole poem is only four short sentences, each sentence contains a scene, but each sentence is consistent with the theme of "in the mountains". Smoke fills the valley and floats between the peaks. This is a common phenomenon in the quiet and deep mountains. As the sun sets in the west, its slanting rays can only be glimpsed through the gaps in the bamboo forest. From this, we can see the lush greenness of the bamboo forest, and the tranquility of the mountains has been conveyed in the first two sentences. The birds on the eaves come and go, and the white clouds pass through the windows, which all indicate that the poet lives on a very high ground and is among lush forests and bamboos.