The characteristic of the horse in the fourth poem of the horse poem is that it is skinny.
Original text:
Twenty-three Horse Poems·Fourth
Li He [Tang Dynasty]
This horse is an extraordinary horse. Fangxing is originally a star.
Knocking the thin bones forward still has the sound of copper.
The third and fourth lines of the poem describe the shape and quality of the horse. "Skinny bones" describe the form, expressing the horse's situation; "copper sound" describes the quality, reflecting the horse's quality. The horse is skinny and skinny, indicating that it is in a bad situation. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is just an exhausted ordinary horse. Only those who truly love horses and are good at reading horses will not treat it as an ordinary horse. "Knocking the thin bones forward, they still have the sound of copper." Even though it was in a bad situation and was beaten into disgrace, its bones still had the sound of copper. The word "copper sound" sounds thick and solemn when read, and has a three-dimensional feel. It also contains many meanings: the sound of copper is pleasant to the ear, indicating that the equipment is excellent, thus vividly showing the beautiful quality of the horse's strong bones, making the inner things appear audible, visible, sensible, and knowable. object image. "Quality" is originally very abstract, and "sound" is also relatively elusive. They are both "virtual" things. It is indeed not easy to write fiction with fiction and turn fiction into reality, but the poet did it in just five words. His visualization technique is so superb that it can be said that he has reached the level of proficiency. What is particularly valuable is that by writing about horses, the poem creates a profound artistic conception of the harmony between things and myself. The poet's talent was not found, and his situation was desolate, just like this skinny horse. When he wrote about horses, he was just euphemistically expressing the resentment pent up in his heart.