Sit up and play the piano.
Look at the bright moon with a thin curtain,
The breeze blows on my chest.
Lonely flood, outfield,
Birds are singing in the northern forest.
What will you see when you walk?
Only worry makes people sad.
Ruan Ji's poems use metaphors, myths and legends, lyricism with scenery, satirizing the present with the ancient, etc., and express the inner world of cynicism and depression in a tortuous and obscure way, forming an artistic style that is close to the point but far from the point.
Ruan Ji is the representative of "the beginning sound". His 82 poems are very famous lyric poems. Some of them reflect the poet's infinite loneliness, pain and anger under the cover of all kinds of drunkenness and madness in a sinister political environment. Some poems show the poet's fear of political risks and hope to avoid the world. Some poems satirize the present by borrowing from the past, pinning their criticism or feelings on current politics, and showing the poet's concern for state affairs; There are also some poems that ridicule those who are hypocritical and polite. Generally speaking, Ruan Ji's poem "Yong Huai" takes "worrying but being sad alone" as the main tone, which has a strong lyrical color. In art, various techniques such as contrast, sustenance and symbol are used, forming a poetic style of "grief, indignation, sadness and obscurity".
This is the first of Ruan Ji's 82 five-character poems. This poem expresses the poet's complex emotions such as anger, sadness, loneliness and anxiety. However, although the poet lamented "sorrow alone", he never broke "sorrow" directly, but "pointed out the situation to show people", which contained his own inner feelings in the image description. As if in front of people's eyes and ears, readers can feel the poet's lonely and angry mood from the "situational tone" shown in the poem. However, that kind of "worry" is just an emotion, an experience and a feeling. People can appreciate the loneliness and bitterness contained in it, but it is difficult to grasp its specific content. It is a remarkable feature of this poem that "words are heard in the sky and feelings are sent beyond the eight famine"
In fact, if we can thoroughly understand Ruan Ji, this poem is not difficult to understand. Ruan Ji "has the ambition to help the world and belongs to Wei and Jin Dynasties. There are many reasons in the world, and few celebrities have all the people. This is because he is not in contact with the world, so drinking is common (Biography of Ruan Ji in the Book of Jin). Just as he was "drunk for 60 days" and asked Wendy to "propose to Emperor Wu", however, the inner pain could not be removed. The description in the history books that "time and mind drive alone, not by the road, but by crying instead" is a profound expression of his inner pain. Therefore, as long as we look at his "loneliness" and "independence", it is not difficult to "lead a secluded place". At the beginning of this poem, the poet introduced a place to the readers. However, it is difficult to fall asleep. He put on his clothes, sat up and played the strings to express his feelings. This is learned from the real scene. However, we might as well regard this "night" as the night of the times. In this long night, "everyone is drunk and I wake up alone", the great loner, played an epoch-making poem. "The British wind intercepted Yun Ni and made strange sounds in the world" ("Sixty-one")
The poet further described the sleepless night. Wu Qi, a A Qing, said, "Jian is born from thin ... There is only a thin curtain in the classroom ... Because the curtains in the classroom are very thin, we may miss the moonlight. Because of it, the wind penetrated and blew me away "("Conclusion of Selected Poems of the Six Dynasties "). Further, you can learn from it. Writing "thin curtains" and "blowing my heart" is really chilling. Although this is not the romantic realm of Qu Zi's "going to Kunlun, eating jade and eating jade", the spirit of unconventional and not being understood by the secular is the same.
Five or six sentences, described by the poet from the perspective of vision and feeling, not only further add the images of "lone rainbow" and "bird", but also add the sound of "horn" and "singing" to the picture. This sad "lonely rainbow" and "flying bird" are not only the eyes of the poet, the scene in front of him, but also the symbol of the poet's self. It flies alone in the long night. The classic Morning Wind in Qin Feng implies missing and caring, while Northwood and Outfield further constitute a desolate and cold realm.
At the end of the two sentences, "What were you thinking when you were wandering? You are only sad when you are worried. " The poet's brushwork reverts from the nature of the object to the subjective self, just like Zhuang Zhoumeng's feeling about butterflies. His heart is full of emotion, but there is nowhere to tell. He may think of many, many things: "How generous a strong man is, he is determined to conquer the eight wastes" (""
Looking at the whole poem, it seems that it is "chaotic and unprovoked" (in Shen Deqian) and "like a clear cloud coming out of a hole, and the volume is uncertain" (in Wang Fuzhi's words), but if we grasp the theme of the poet's "sadness in the heart", we can understand the "masterpiece" of this poem. "Words are in the eyes and ears, feelings are in the table", Zhong.