"Sleepwalking in Tianmu's Song of Farewell" is one of the representative works of Li Bai, a great poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. This poem was written in the fourth year of Tianbao (745). It is an ancient Yuefu poem that the poet gave to his friends before leaving. The whole poem has a majestic and bizarre artistic conception, colorful artistic images, and novel and unique expression techniques, which have always been recited by people. What is most commendable is that Li Bai created a wonderful and magnificent artistic conception in this poem. The dreams in the poem unfold step by step, and the scenery changes step by step, becoming more and more strange, bringing people into the strange romantic imagination of sleepwalking Tianmu.
Although the poetic environment is strange, the context is extremely fine. After a brief combing, we can see the four scenes of the dream:
"My dream of Wuyue is to be solidified. I flew across the Jinghu Lake in the moonlight all night. The moonlight illuminated my shadow and sent me to Yanxi River. Xie Gongsuo's place is still there today. "The clear moonlight and the clear ape cries are reflected here." The bright moonlight, the clear blue lake water, the clear and clear apes' crows form a beautiful, tranquil and beautiful picture.
"Wearing Xie Gong's clogs, I climbed up the Qingyun Staircase. I could see the sea and the sun on half of the wall, and heard the sky chickens. The path was uncertain on the thousands of rocks, and the flowers and rocks were suddenly dim." This paragraph changes step by step. The shape changes rapidly. The stone path leads to the clouds, the sun rises from the sea, the rooster sings loudly, and the mountain flowers are blooming. It seems that the light has been seen but it is still in an ambiguous state. This is the second scene shown in the dream.
“The bears roar and the dragon sings in Yinyan Spring, deep in the forest, the tops of the mountains are startling. The clouds are green and ready for rain, and the water is sluggish and smoke.” But as the night falls, what the poet sees and hears in his dream has become a bear. It was roaring, the dragon was roaring, and the rocks, springs, deep forests, and peaks were trembling. The weather is also changing rapidly. The green sky is like smoke rising from the water when it is about to rain. Being in such an environment makes people feel that they are in a high-risk place and their hair stands on end. The third scene in this dream can be described as spooky and terrifying.
The fourth scene: "Thunderbolts are missing, and hills are collapsed. The stone door of the cave opens in the middle. The blue sky is vast and bottomless, and the sun and moon shine on the gold and silver platform. Ni is the clothes and the wind is. Horses and kings of clouds are coming and going. Tigers and drums are playing, and luan horses are coming back. Immortals are coming like hemp. "If the previous part is just a strange poem, then the next part is weird and dreamlike. It reaches its climax. Although it was a frightening situation just now, what I saw when I raised my eyes was still peaceful. Immediately afterwards, he wrote about the sound of landslides and earth cracking, just like the cave opening in "Arabian Nights", and a strange and bright scene appeared before his eyes, suddenly turning from darkness to radiance. The ancients said that there is a cave in the mountains, and this scene of Shixian consciously visualized it. It has both wonderful images, colorful descriptions, and relaxing emotions. This is the highest state of the poet's sleepwalking imagination, and it is also the most full and clear artistic picture in the whole poem.
The poet created a dream based on his emotions and carefully painted four wonderful pictures. After reading the artistic conception of the poem and connecting it with the poet's experience, the author believes that everything shown in the dream is by no means accidental and seems to be a true reflection of the poet's life experience. When Li Bai was twenty-five years old, he "went to his country with a sword, said goodbye to his relatives and traveled far away". He left the Three Gorges, pan-Dongting, traveled east to Wuyue, and visited Taiyuan in the north. He began a sixteen-year tour centered on Anlu (now part of Hubei). Life. At this stage, the poet can be regarded as free and full of beautiful yearning for reality. The first scene in the dream is a poetic portrayal of the poet's life at this stage. In the first year of Tianbao, Li Bai was called to Beijing on the recommendation of his friends to serve in the Hanlin Academy. At first, the poet could be said to "laugh to the sky and go out", and "the spring breeze was so proud that horses were hoofed". He was deeply favored by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. This short period of time can be said to be the beginning of the poet's politics. The most magnificent moment in his career, no wonder the spectacular and majestic scenes of "sea sun" and "rooster" appear in the poem. However, Li Bai's arrogant character was not tolerated by the powerful. Later, he was slandered by Gao Lishi and Yang Guozhong, and Tang Xuanzong alienated him. In the third year of Tianbao (744), he was forced to leave Chang'an, which was a low point in the poet's life experience. The eerie and terrifying scene described in the poem reflects the darkness of real life from one side. Li Bai was a man with lofty ambitions. He had a good wish to "exercise his wisdom and be willing to serve as the Prime Minister, so that the whole region would be settled and all the counties unified." However, his beautiful ideals were shattered by the ruthless reality. His strong dissatisfaction with reality prompted him to pursue the paradise he dreamed of. This was the fourth scene he pursued in his dream. Therefore, we might as well say that the four scenes in the dream are the tortuous reproduction of the poet's life journey. The poet's peculiar romantic imagination that is higher than life is rooted in real life.
When poets write dream poems, their magical and magnificent scenes certainly have a strong romanticism color, but behind the magical and magnificent scenes, there is also a looming shadow of terror. This is exactly what poets feel everywhere in real society. A poetic reflection of hitting a wall and feeling depressed. The four scenes in the dream seem to describe the world of immortals, but in fact they are the projection of the poet's repeated political setbacks after entering Chang'an for the second time. They vaguely and tortuously reflect his psychological contradiction between "being born out of the world" and "entering into the world". I think that when students appreciate the poem "Dream Wandering Tianmu Says Farewell", if they can integrate these life experiences of Li Bai into their understanding of the content of the poem, they will not only understand this point, but also deeply experience the poet's rugged uprightness, A feeling of sadness and indignation that does not please the world but lives unscrupulously.