I'm not afraid of fractures. I want to leave my innocence in the world.
Lyme Poetry is a seven-character quatrain written by Yu Qian, a politician and writer in Ming Dynasty. This poem expresses ambition through symbolism. Literally, this is a poem about limes. In fact, it is a metaphor for people with things, which shows the poet's lofty ideals.
The translation is as follows:
Limestone can only be mined from the deep mountains after tens of millions of hammering. It regards burning with raging fire as a very common thing.
Even if it is shattered, it is not afraid. It is willing to leave a clean body in the world.
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Creation background
Yu Qian studied hard since childhood and was ambitious. According to legend, one day, he wandered into a lime kiln and watched the master sing and ask people to calcine lime. I saw piles of blue-black rocks, which were burned by the raging fire and turned into white lime. He was deeply moved and wrote this poem after a little thinking.
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The author Yu Qian is an honest and clean official. He once rehabilitated unjust imprisonment, helped the famine and was deeply loved by the people. In Ming Yingzong, Walla invaded and Yingzong was captured. Yu Qian proposed the establishment of Jingdi, personally led the troops to stick to Beijing, repelled Vala, and rescued the people from the brutal rule of Mongolian nobles again. However, after the British Restoration, the national hero was falsely killed for "treason". This poem of lime can be said to be a true portrayal of Yu Qian's life and personality.
Huo, a modern classical writer and poet, commented on the good poems of past dynasties: "Lime poems and coal poems are both metaphors of human beings. As far as the author's writing motivation is concerned, it is based on his self-metaphor and self-encouragement of coal and lime, and he did it; But as far as the work itself is concerned, it has universal and eternal significance, and any reader can learn and draw strength from it. "
The whole poem uses symbolism to compare things with people and integrate things with people's personalities. Words are in things, but in people, not in people, but in things, as if they came out at once. The style is heroic and magnificent.
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