The next sentence is suddenly silent. This poem comes from a five-character quatrain "What I See" written by Yuan Mei, a writer in the Qing Dynasty. The original text of the poem is as follows:
The shepherd boy rides the ox and sings loudly.
I tried to catch cicadas, but suddenly I kept silent.
in the vernacular, it means that the children herding cattle ride on the backs of oxen, and the loud songs echo in the forest. Suddenly, I wanted to catch cicadas singing in the tree, so I stopped singing and stood by the tree silently.
On the journey, the poet saw a shepherd boy riding a cow and singing. Suddenly he heard the cicada, so he stopped singing and jumped off the cow's back to catch the cicada. A little thing that the author happened to see, so it was named "What I saw". Through the description of the changes of the shepherd boy's movements and demeanor, it shows the shepherd boy's innocent, lively, witty and flexible character and his love for nature.
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Through the description of the changes of the shepherd boy's movements and demeanor, the whole poem shows the characteristics of the shepherd boy's naive, lively, witty and flexible character and his love for nature, and expresses the author's love for rural scenery. Through the description of the natural environment and social life, the feelings of life are directly expressed, which seems to be carefree, but in fact it is entrusted with feelings, and the language is lively, free and simple.
The poet writes about the dynamics of the little shepherd boy first, and the style of singing loudly with high sitting bull's back is so loose and presumptuous. After writing about the static state of the little shepherd boy, the expression of holding his breath and staring at the cicada is particularly focused. "told even more in silence than they had told in sound". This change from dynamic to static, written suddenly and naturally, vividly depicts the image of the little shepherd boy's innocence, good listening and eventful.
It is in this ups and downs that this poem has achieved great artistic effect. The language of poetry, as clear as words, is plain and very natural. As for the next move, how the little shepherd boy catches cicadas, whether he catches them or not, the poet has not written it, leaving it to readers to experience, daydream and think.
The whole poem uses pure line drawing technique, firmly grasps the performance of the little shepherd boy for a moment, and vividly writes the very clever characteristics of the little shepherd boy, which makes people feel the innocence and cuteness of the little shepherd boy. The peaceful, tranquil and picturesque pastoral scenery it depicts, and the lively, free and innocent shepherd boy image it depicts show the poet's "true temperament".