The poet's loneliness while waiting for his guests. "A Visitor" is a famous work by Zhao Shixiu. It describes the poet's meeting with a visitor alone on a stormy summer night. The poet is both expecting and anxious while waiting for the guests. This poem expresses the poet's inner loneliness by writing about the scenery. The details are as follows:
1. Environment description: The first two sentences of the poem, "It rains on every house during the yellow plum season, and there are frogs everywhere in the grassy ponds" create a sense of tranquility by describing the summer night scene in the south of the Yangtze River during the plum rain season. It has a slightly noisy atmosphere. There was the sound of rain and the sound of frogs. These sounds seemed particularly clear at night, but they actually reflected the silence of the environment. This way of writing expresses the poet's inner peace and expectation while waiting for the guests.
2. Character description: The last two sentences in the poem, "I didn't come until midnight when I had an appointment, I knocked the chess pieces and dropped the lanterns" further express the poet's lonely mood by describing the scene of the poet himself waiting for the guests. . The poet waited patiently, but the guest never came. This waiting process undoubtedly increased the poet's loneliness. The poet "knocks the chess pieces" while waiting. This action not only expresses the poet's boredom and anxiety, but also reflects his inner peace and calmness. The detail of "falling lantern flowers" hints at the passage of time, further enhancing the poet's sense of loneliness.