In fact, the poet is faced with the feeling of life caused by the moon at this specific time and space, and the first connection of poetry is the poet's concern for the moon. Logically, we should look up at the moon on the night of August 15th this year in front of Pushatou Water Hall, and think of the moonlight scene on the night of August 15th last year, next to the apricot garden beside Qujiang Pool. Shi Fei, on the other hand, describes the past year from the opposite side, depicting a picture of the Mid-Autumn Moon, Qujiang pond and the royal banquet. Poems have different responses at the beginning of writing, telling them to interweave in the past and sing every night. Only in this way can couplets retreat to the front of Songpu Shatou Water Pavilion this year. The brighter the prosperous past, the more I feel compared with today's sadness, and the resulting disparity between the past and the present is like the sadness of falling from heaven to hell. However, in the 28 words of the two couplets, the poet repeatedly repeated "the night of August 15", which obviously brought shock and pain to the poet's mind. Let the poet look back at yesterday's joy and taste the loneliness and bitterness in front of him alone. The poem uses the method of comparing the past and the present at a glance. In fact, each couplet is about time, place and scene, and the comparison is not only about time, but also about the artistic conception of the scene. Tonight, we are not only looking at the moon, but also facing the similar moon scene every year, which is a sad feeling that things have changed.
In classical poetry, the moon bears more homesickness. "Looking up, I found it was moonlight, and it sank back, and I suddenly thought of home." "I'm worried about the bright moon, and I'm going to follow you to Yelang West." "The bright moon shines on tall buildings, with radiant light." The connotations of these moons are all based on spatial distance. And the moon will also have the concept of time, but it has become an eternal life, thus showing the pain of life. "Life is endless from generation to generation, and Jiang Yue is similar year after year. I don't know who Jiang Yue is waiting for, but when I see the Yangtze River delivering water (Zhang Moonlight on the Spring River), Huaidong Old Moon Crossing the Female Wall in the Middle of the Night (Liu Yuxi's Stone City) and When is the Autumn Moon on the Spring River? How much is known from the past (Yu Meiren by Li Yu), the moon images in these poems all point to the concept of time, highlighting the helplessness left by human feelings to individual life.
This contrast is still very common in ancient poetry. "I have heard about Dongting Lake for a long time, and now I finally climb this tower" (Du Fu's "Climbing Yueyang Tower") existed in the past, but I don't know why I didn't have a chance to climb it until now, revealing the poet's endless helplessness and sadness about life. In fact, Bai Juyi also hinted at the helplessness and sadness that he could not dominate his destiny in the comparison.
The first couplet of the poem shows the poet's pain in many ways. In fact, it is a cross-sectional comparison of life. How does poetry complete the turning point of content? From the content, the tie involves homesickness and the full moon, which looks like homesickness on the surface, but the psychology reflected by the "homesickness" behavior is saturated with the poet's loneliness and bitterness, and this kind of psychology tries to send him away through homesickness. As a result, he does not look forward to his hometown, but once again strengthens the lonely experience of the subject. "Looking at the moon" means looking at the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, especially the full moon, but the behavior of asking questions is actually "it is several times the circle". Obviously, this full moon is not round in the poet's eyes. This kind of questioning reflects the poet's inner loneliness from the external Mid-Autumn Moon. The performance art of "homesickness" and "looking at the moon" is a contradiction and confusion that can be seen but not seen, and it is the psychological result of the poet's extreme loneliness. "Looking at the hometown in the northwest" and "Looking at the bright moon in the southeast" are actually intertextual rhetoric. In Quentin by Peng Pu, I can imagine a person's anxiety and eagerness to wait and see, hoping to see my hometown bring me warmth, and a bright moon in my heart cares for me, but it has got the opposite result, adding endless sadness to the poet.
The twists and turns of poetry highlight the loneliness of the poet's relegation, and the poet reproduces the autumn wind and moonlight in detail at the end. "Autumn wind and autumn rain are sad", but in the past days, "no one will know when the wind blew yesterday", and no one can understand the coolness of this biting autumn wind. It must be that people are immersed in ruthless joy and forget the cold of autumn wind, which highlights the poet's cheerful feeling in the past. Tonight is as clear as usual. First, it is said that the moon tonight is similar to previous years. Just metonymy, the prominent moon is still the past moon, suggesting that people are no longer the enthusiastic people in the past, and compared with previous poems, they are helpless and painful to take care of things. Secondly, it is said that the moon tonight is the same as in previous years, but it is extremely cold when the moonlight shines on the body. Being in the environment of "in front of Pushatou Shuige" made my heart cold, and poetry further strengthened the sense of sadness and loss brought by the poet's relegation to May. Three hundred Tang Poems
After reading this poem, I can't help being moved by it. Bai Juyi reproduces his sadness in such a changeable way that I can't help but marvel at the poet's skill in poetry and describe his invisible sadness between scales!