Du Fu's "Ascend the High" expresses the author's complex emotions of wandering around for many years, worrying about the country, times, old age, illness and loneliness.
"Deng Gao" is a seven-rhyme poem written by Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, in the autumn of the second year of Dali (767) in Kuizhou.
Full text: The wind is strong, the sky is high, the ape is screaming in mourning, and the white bird is flying back from the clear sand of Nagisa. ?The boundless falling trees rustled, and the endless Yangtze River rolled in. ? ?Wanli is always a guest in the sad autumn, but he has been sick for a hundred years and only appears on the stage. ? Difficulty and bitterness hate the frost on the temples, and the new wine glass becomes muddy.
Translation: The sky is high, the wind is blowing, the sound of apes is sad and sad, and the gulls are playing and circling in the clear water. Endless leaves are falling one after another, and the Yangtze River is rolling and rushing. I sigh sadly at the autumn scenery, wandering away from home. In my old age, I am sick and I climb the high platform alone. I deeply regret that my hair on the temples is getting grayer by the day, and I feel sad because I stopped drinking after falling ill.
Extended information:
The first half of the poem describes the scenery, and the second half is lyrical. Each has its own intricacies in writing. The first couplet focuses on depicting the specific scenery in front of you, just like a painter's fine brushwork, where shape, sound, color, and attitude are all expressed one by one. The second couplet focuses on rendering the entire autumn atmosphere, just like a painter's freehand brushwork. It should only be expressive and understandable, allowing readers to supplement it with their imagination.
Three couplets express emotions, written from both vertical (time) and horizontal (space) aspects, from wandering in a foreign land to being sick and disabled. The four couplets also start with the increasing number of gray hairs and stopping drinking to protect the sick, which is attributed to the difficult times as the root cause of poverty. In this way, Du Fu's sentiments when he was worried about his country were vividly displayed on the page.
All eight lines of this poem are correct. At a cursory look, the head and tail seem to be "not right", and the chest and abdomen seem to be "uninterested in being right". If you think about it carefully, "In an article, every sentence is regular, and in a sentence, every word is regular." Not only "the whole text is legal", but also "the sentences and words used", "people in ancient and modern times will never dare to teach, and they will never be able to teach". It is only natural that it can win the reputation of "unparalleled work".