The word * * * appears 15 times in the poem, which runs through the whole poem as the main line and has rich and varied functions and connotations. This paper analyzes the main function of "moon" in poetry.
Zhang was an outstanding poet in the early Tang Dynasty, and he, Bao Rong and Zhang Xu were also called "Four Scholars of Wuzhong". Moonlit Night on the Spring River is the only two poems in the whole Tang Dynasty, and it is called "the solitary poem", which established Zhang's immortal position in the literary history of the Tang Dynasty.
The poet unfolded the whole poem in the order of the change of the position of the moon. At the beginning of the poem, "The bright moon on the sea is born in the tide" depicts the scene that the moon rises from the sea with the tide. "When the moon rises, the moonlight shines on the forest full of flowers." The Moon Wheel in the Sky "depicts the scene of the moon hanging high in the dark night sky, which is the highest point of the moon.
The following article describes the scene of the moon sinking in the west in the river pond. The moon sinks in the sea fog. In the last sentence, the moonlight falls on the trees by the river and has gradually disappeared.
It can be seen that the poet wrote the changes of the position of the moon in the order of rising in the west, hanging high and falling high, and skillfully inserted scenes such as riverside, flower forest, white sand, sky, white clouds, green maple, boat, small building, dressing table, tattered clothes anvil, swan goose, ichthyosaur, falling flowers, sea fog and Jieshi to make the whole poem coherent.