The poem "A Man is Old" uses a variety of feelings and imaginations, and creates a desolate and silent tragic artistic conception through the combination of images.

A: This poem uses a lot of contrast and creates a tragic artistic conception through a series of images. The author uses a lot of images related to death and decline, forming an ancient image group, an outdated goose, an extinguished lamp, a stationary machine and an unfinished portrait. These images exude loneliness and decay, and create an atmosphere of depression, loneliness and disillusionment through these images, expressing people's sense of decay and powerlessness that cannot resist the laws of nature.

For example, at the beginning of the poem: "When a person is old, between eyes and conversation, between cucumber and tea, like smoke rising, like water falling. Darkness is approaching. I lost my hair and teeth in the dark. Like an anecdote in the old days, like a supporting role in a national drama. A person is old. " Compare people's old age to "smoke rises, water falls" and "supporting role" and "autumn curtain falls heavily! ? Dew is cold. Music goes its own way. He saw outdated geese, extinguished fires, mediocre, static machines, and unfinished portraits. Young lovers go away, and when a person is old, the birds divert their attention. " Poets frequently use repetition and parallelism, such as "one is old", forming a recurring melody.

Poetry is neat in form, steady in rhythm, harmonious in sound and rhyme, catchy, and draws sufficient nutrients from classical poetry. What is particularly emphasized here is that the language of this poem is similar to "spoken language", which is easy to understand on the surface, but in fact it has high artistic charm.