The description reveals a lonely and depressed mood, expressing melancholy and loneliness.
"Ambition" is a work by Wang Ji, a poet in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties.
Full text: Looking at the dusk of Donggao, where can I rely on? ?The trees are all in autumn colors, and the mountains are only covered with sunset. ?Herdsmen drive calves back, hunting horses return with poultry. ?We look at each other without acquaintance, and sing long songs to cherish the flowers.
Translation: Standing in Donggao in the evening and looking into the distance, I was wandering and unsure where to turn. The woods were all dyed with autumn colors, and the mountains were covered with the afterglow of the setting sun. The herdsmen drove the cattle back home, and the hunters returned home with many prey. Everyone was speechless and didn't know each other. I screamed and sang and really wanted to live in seclusion in the mountains!
Extended information:
The genre of this poem is five-character verse. Ever since Shen Yue and others applied the knowledge of rhythm to poetry creation during the Qi Yongming period of the Southern Dynasty, the new genre of rhythmic poetry has been brewing. By the time of Shen Quanqi and Song Zhiwen in the early Tang Dynasty, the rhythmic poetry was finalized and became an important poetry genre.
Wang Ji, who was more than sixty years earlier than Shen and Song Dynasties, could already write mature verses such as "Ambition", which shows that he is a person who has the courage to try new forms. The first and last couplets of this poem express emotions, and the middle two couplets describe scenery. Through the repetition of emotion-scenery-emotion, the meaning of the poem deepens. This is in line with the basic structure of rhythmic poetry.