Only Snow at Night
Bai Juyi - "Snow at Night"
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Publication date: September 8, 2006
Source: Appreciation of Ancient Poetry
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Era: Tang Dynasty
Author: Bai Juyi - "Snow at Night"
Content
Already amazed It's cold and the windows are bright again.
I know the snow is heavy late at night, and I hear the sound of breaking bamboo.
Appreciation:
Among the many products of nature, snow is unique. She has won the praise of countless poets throughout the ages with her pure white and crystal-clear natural beauty and her magical ability to decorate Guanshan. Among the dazzling snow-songs, Bai Juyi's "Night Snow" seems so ordinary, with neither color depiction nor gesture description. At first glance, it is simply inconspicuous, but if you taste it carefully, you will find it. Dignified and simple, fresh and elegant, it is a small flower with unique style.
This poem is novel and unique, mainly because of its good intention. There are not many poems about snow at night, which is related to the characteristics of snow itself. Snow is silent and odorless, and can only be distinguished by color, shape, and posture. In the dark night, human vision is completely useless, and the image of snow is naturally impossible to capture. However, Bai Juyi, who is willing to innovate, started from this special situation and avoided the usual frontal description techniques, using all side effects to vividly and vividly write about a snowy night.
"I was surprised that the quilt pillow was cold", starting from the human feeling. The word "cold" not only points out that there is snow, but also implies that the snow is heavy, because life experience proves: when the snow first falls, the cold air in the air All is absorbed by water vapor and condenses into snowflakes. The temperature will not drop immediately. The severe cold in the air will only increase when the snow is heavy. It feels cold here, and it can be seen that it has been snowing for a long time. Not only "cold" is writing about snow, but "surprise" is also writing about snow. The reason why people are unaware of it at first and then suddenly wake up when the cold hits is because the snow falls silently to the ground. This is why writing snow in addition to "cold" Another feature. This sentence is closely related to the title. Feeling "the quilt pillow is cold" means that the person who came at night has already hugged the quilt and was lying down, thus pointing out that it is "night snow". "Seeing the light in the window again" further writes about Ye Xue from a visual perspective. Seeing bright windows late at night just means that the snow is falling heavily and deep. It is the strong reflection of the snow that brings light to the dark night. The above are all written in profile, describing the person in every sentence, but Ye Xue is highlighted everywhere.
"I know the snow is heavy every night, and I hear the sound of folding bamboo every now and then." Here we still describe it from the side, but we change the perspective and write it from the auditory perspective. The sound of the heavy snow breaking the bamboo branches told me that the snow was getting stronger. The poet deliberately chose the detail of "folding bamboo" to highlight the word "heavy", which is unique and emotional. The "sound of breaking bamboo" "heard" "late at night" shows the silence of the winter night, and more importantly, it describes the poet's sleeplessness all night long; this is not just for the "cold quilt pillow", but also reveals the poet's exile I felt lonely when I was in Jiangzhou. Because the poet expresses his unique feelings with true feelings, this song "Snow at Night" is unique, with implicit poetic meaning and long lasting charm.
The whole poem has a plain and simple poetic environment, and is completely plastered, without any trace of arrangement or delicacy. This is the inherent style of Bai Juyi's poetry.