Li shangyin
It's a long night in the rain, and the lights are lonely.
My hometown is full of clouds and water, which is not suitable for Qiu Meng.
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The so-called "stagnation of rain" means stagnation due to rain, but the first sentence of the poem does not say "stagnation of Chang 'an by night rain", but "stagnation of Chang 'an by night rain", so the word "stagnation" adds a bit of heavy and lingering texture, which makes people feel dignified. Rainy night is always the most charming and emotional, because night and rain are always combined with homesickness, and homesickness is deep because of night and heavy because of rain. More importantly, the rain nightclub creates a space for us, which belongs to listening. Whether it's "a leaf dripping into light" or "sleeping for a while and listening to the autumn rain is light and cold", whether it's "lingering sound makes the autumn rain urgent" or "leaving the dead lotus to listen to the rain", it is showing a kind of listening power-listening to the rain at night, listening to your own thoughts and feelings. There is always a longer and broader world in listening, because the difference between hearing and vision is that vision points to the present and is the existence that vision can achieve, while hearing simply does not have all the experiences that exist in the form of sequential consciousness in our memory. Many times, it is because we close our eyes that we break through the limitations of our vision and have unlimited feelings. Therefore, listening attentively in the rain at night will awaken countless life experiences, which are memories, a unique life form, and an unspeakable overlap between reality and dreams, memory and forgetting. At the moment, for the author who is wandering in a foreign land and alone, all his listening and memories point to the same direction, that is, his hometown. Therefore, at this moment, the sound of autumn rain creates a space for the poet's mind to flow slowly and expand infinitely. The center of this space is a flickering "residual lamp". For night, light gives people peace and warmth, but this peace and warmth becomes sad because of the infinite darkness outside. Or on the other hand, it is this little light that has plunged the world into more boundless darkness. Leibnizon said, "What is darkness? It is the weakest light and the smallest light." This sentence is not so much expressing the omnipresence of light as expressing that there is light in darkness, and light exists because of darkness. Therefore, the little warmth shining in the residual lamp on this rainy night has become so sad and lonely. ...
Li Shangyin's poems often have twists and turns in structure, and their leisure is infinite. Sometimes it's hard to avoid being esoteric because it involves too much. The first two sentences of this poem are much more natural and plain, but in this plain language, the use of implicit images creates a far-reaching and easy-to-associate space: autumn rain, listening in the middle of the night, sitting alone in a lonely lamp, wandering alone, and the word "worry" is self-evident.
The beauty of the poem is still in the last two sentences, "The hometown is full of clouds and water, which is not suitable for Qiu Meng." My hometown is full of water and clouds, which shows Shi Li's unique obscurity and kindness. What is a land of clouds and water? Is it the vastness and vastness of water and clouds? Is it the distance and barrier between water and clouds? Is this Yun Qi's sadness? Maybe it's because listening to the rain reminds me of my hometown, which is also a rainy place. It's rainy in autumn, and I'm afraid my dream will be blocked. Perhaps, the more I want to remember each other, the more I can't remember them. All you can remember is that water is as ethereal as clouds. Maybe the water is gone, and the clouds are rolling and the clouds are comfortable, so that the wanderer can't wait for my love when he is alive, and his hometown is far away and difficult to return? Shi Buhua said in Poems on Servants that Li Yishan's poems are "beautiful and sometimes melancholy". This kind of melancholy is precisely his unprecedented exquisite description of the richness and complexity of the spiritual world, and it is also a vivid display of the vastness, infinity and confusion in the depths of the soul. The sentence "Autumn is not suitable for dreaming" seems straightforward, but it is implicit. It was a rainy night and a lonely lantern day. It's when I'm homesick and worried, but the author says that "autumn is not suitable for dreaming". Why? Is it because "the autumn wind is still short and brown, and the night rain is cold?" Are you afraid that if you sleep deeply, you will be confused, shocked, and have a good dream and nowhere to find it? Still worried about "I don't know the way in my dream, how can I comfort Acacia?" Rational judgment can't stop lingering feelings. As the saying goes, "If you keep cutting, you will be confused. This is the sadness of parting". Poetry is implicit, but it should not be too explicit and straightforward. However, there are different ways to achieve the implied effect. Some are "silent", such as Liu Yuxi's "In Old Times, Wang Xietang's former swallow flew into the homes of ordinary people". He did not miss the past, but wrote the story of Wang Xietang's former swallow flying into the homes of ordinary people, but told the story of vicissitudes of life and impermanence. Some of them are "extreme words", such as Li Shangyin's "Meet each other late" and Li Yuzhi's "When are the spring flowers and the autumn moon". The language of poetry itself is clear and the inner feelings are unobstructed, but because of the high generality of this vernacular, poetry often gains a symbolic meaning and inaccuracy beyond the described events themselves; Another is between words, between words, between words, between words, between words, between words, between words, between words.