Appreciation of Li Shangyin's Falling Flowers

Tang * Li Shangyin's Falling Flowers

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Visitors to the High Court have been competing to leave; The spring flowers in the small garden are dancing in the wind.

The flower shadow is confused by the winding path; Overlooking the petal dance reflects the afterglow of the sunset.

Oh, how can I bear to sweep them away? You still have to go home.

Flower lovers who love flowers will naturally blame spring for leaving too early; When spring comes to an end, flowers and flowers only shed tears.

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On the high pavilion, the guests left like this! In the small garden, the wind blew thousands of pieces of residual flowers flying about.

Falling flowers, flying up and down, sprinkled on the winding path, floating into the distance, like an oblique photo of the sunset.

Seeing such a scene, my heart is broken and I can't bear to sweep away the fallen flowers; I am eager to see it, but I am eager to hurry back to spring.

I cherish the mood of wheatgrass, which has gone with the spring, and all I get is Ying Ying's clear tears that wet my clothes.

To annotate ...

Flowers flying around: refers to the scene of late spring.

Mind: Pun refers to flowers, and also refers to one's own mind about flowers.

Wet clothes: refers to tears.

Dazzling: looking forward to it means eager to look forward to it.

Return: Spring is over.

Uneven: uneven, refers to the accumulation of fallen flowers.

Qumo: The winding path leads to a secluded place.

Tiaodi: It's far away.

Oblique: the brilliance of the sunset.

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This poem was written in the sixth year of Huichang (AD 846), and the author now lives in Yongye. At that time, Li Shangyin was in a struggle between Niu and Li, and he was in a difficult situation and depressed, so this poem revealed a kind of resentment.

The first couplet directly writes fallen flowers. The first sentence is narrative, and the second sentence is scenery. Although the fallen flower has been there for a long time, the guests didn't notice it. When people left the building and the guests were scattered in the garden, the poet's loneliness and melancholy welled up in his heart. The poet noticed that the garden was full of colorful fallen flowers, and he was born with the same feelings and clever language.

Turn to write the specific situation of falling flowers from different angles. From the perspective of space, the last sentence says falling flowers are flying and picking up songs; The next sentence begins with time, and the flowers are endless. The touch of "oblique photo" reveals the poet's inner anxiety. The whole picture is shrouded in heavy and dim tones, which shows the poet's sadness and sadness.

The neckline is directly lyrical. Spring goes and flowers fall. "Alas, how can I bear to sweep them away?" It not only expresses the general pity for flowers, but also expresses the sadness of the sad people who fall in love with flowers. "Eyes still want to wear thin" wrote the poet's infatuation and persistence in the face of falling flowers.

The ending is a pun. Flowers decorate spring with life, ending in withering and dyeing; The poet, however, has always been ambitious, but he has been frustrated repeatedly, and he has also ended up in a sad and disappointed life. Tears are dripping down his clothes, and his life is bleak and full of emotion. The whole poem praises things and hurts people, and it is sad and endless.

At that time, Li Shangyin offended Linghu Mao of the Niudang by marrying Wang Maoyuan's daughter, and the situation was extremely bad. The change of natural scenery easily caused his anxiety, so he vaguely revealed his feelings through the falling flowers in the garden, full of twists and turns. One or two poems, "The guests in the class room are gone, petals, confused in my little garden." Writing the scene of falling flowers, the phrase "there are petals, lost in my little garden" is just a scene that everyone can learn, not novel; The beauty lies in the cohesion of the first two sentences. Falling flowers is a natural phenomenon and has nothing to do with the departure of tourists. But the poet said that flowers "fly around" because tourists leave, and fallen flowers become sentient beings. This causal relationship is quite unexpected, but it is also reasonable. Although the fallen flower has been there for a long time, the guests didn't realize it when they were there. When people leave the building, the guests are scattered in the garden, and loneliness and melancholy come to mind. The poet noticed the colorful fallen flowers in the garden and gave birth to the feeling of being in the same boat.

Three or four sentences "meander on my road and escort the sunset like a dancer." Further describe the specific situation of falling flowers flying around from different angles. "Staggered" sentence focuses on space, writing falling flowers flying around and connecting music; The sentence "adjust the place" starts from time and can't be finished. The poet stood on the "high shelf" and looked down, giving a panoramic view of the garden. These two sentences objectively describe the fallen flower itself, but the brush strokes of Oblique Photo reveal the author's inner turmoil. At this moment, the "falling flowers" and "slanting photos" that appear in front of his eyes are not natural phenomena in the eyes of ordinary people, but things full of feelings and life like people. They seem to be bidding farewell to their beautiful youth and years. So the whole picture was shrouded in the heavy and dim tone of falling flowers, revealing the poet's deep sadness and sorrow.

Five or six sentences "Oh, how can I have the heart to sweep them away? , the eyes are still thin. " On the basis of the previous description, express the poet's feelings directly. Heartbroken people will naturally feel hurt when they meet flowers again. The phrase "eyes are still narrow" describes the poet's infatuation and persistence. He longed to wear it, hoping that the flowers would not fall again, but it backfired. The remaining flowers on the branches are still flying around, becoming more and more sparse.

"The fragrance of the heart is spent with the end of spring, leaving only a robe stained with tears." Flowers decorate the spring with their lives and selflessly dedicate their hearts, but in the end they end up with a sad ending. Isn't this the portrayal of the poet himself? Poets are always ambitious and eager to see the world, but they are often frustrated and unable to serve them. All they got was bitterness and disappointment, and tears fell on their clothes. Poems with fallen flowers are not uncommon in Tang poetry, but most of them simply express the feelings of cherishing flowers or expressing the mood of eating, drinking and having fun in time. Few people can seamlessly combine the praise of things with the generosity of life experience like Li Shangyin, and the feelings expressed are so sad and moving. For example, the poet also has a poem "Poem of Falling Flowers with Zhang Xiucai", in which the phrase "Falling Flowers Dance Hesitantly and Smell Better after Sweeping" is used to describe the flying falling flowers, which is vivid and full of vitality. The description of the enduring floral fragrance shows the beauty of falling flowers' image and noble character, creating a fresh artistic conception. This is the poet who encourages others not to sink because of failure. In contrast, this poem "Falling Flowers", which expresses the sadness of life experience, is quite different in taste and artistic conception.

Personal point of view

Li Shangyin was an outstanding and representative poet in the late Tang Dynasty. His works sharply exposed the decadent upper ruling group, reflected the dangerous times in the declining period of the Tang Dynasty, and showed the miserable fate and psychology of the repressed intellectuals in that era. In terms of poetic art, he broke through the development of poets in various aspects in the prosperous and middle Tang Dynasty, created a new poetic style of profundity, beauty, sentimentality and symbolism, and made new contributions to the development of lyric art of ancient poetry.

This is a poem dedicated to fallen flowers. The regret of falling flowers is a treasure of spring and youth. It is not only a sigh of flowers, but also a sigh of self-pity, lamenting the passing of youth and the wandering of life experience. The whole poem is full of feelings of hurting spring and cherishing flowers, which is euphemistic and moving.

Poetry is gorgeous, so that it is still pondered by us after a long time, which is also one of the important values of poetry. There are many factors that cause this kind of beauty, among which the sincerity of the poet accounts for an important part. They condensed their profound understanding and wrote this beautiful poem with lifelong persistence, among which flower of life, a poet, is sincere. Only in this way can it spread for thousands of years without ignorance, always touch our heartstrings, let us share their wisdom and experience, and appreciate the realm of "peace of mind, beauty is difficult to talk to you" And this kind of soul-infiltrating reading should be regarded as a kind of accomplishment and enjoyment for busy modern people.

Li Shangyin's poems are lyrical and not so straightforward, especially devoted to graceful songs and opinions. His poems are often full of profound interest and endless aftertaste. But deliberately seeking pleasure sometimes brings hidden disadvantages. His poems about objects are meticulous in style and description, and can express the inner charm of things and convey the author's feelings with the depiction of typical characteristics and the rendering of environmental atmosphere. Untitled poetry is Li Shangyin's original creation. & lt/b & gt;