The "late rain" in the second sentence is a true description of the real late rain now, which depicts the continuous autumn rain, blocks the way home and increases the poet's yearning for his wife. The author uses bleak autumn scenery to express his lonely and desolate mood.
The "late rain" in the last sentence is an imaginary way of writing, an imaginary reunion with his wife. * * * complaining about the lovesickness when writing letters sets off the poet's loneliness and homesickness at the moment. The contrast between these two Poems Rain at Night expresses the poet's sadness and deep yearning more deeply.
Poetry analysis:
The two dusk rains in the poem are "Short Messages to Friends in the North on a Rainy Night". This poem is a lyric quatrain written by Li Shangyin, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, to his wife in Chang 'an and a foreign land in Bashu. It is the poet's reply to each other. The first two sentences of this poem, with questions and answers and descriptions of the immediate environment, illustrate the lonely feelings and deep nostalgia for his wife. The last two sentences imagine the joy of meeting again in the future and compare with the loneliness tonight. This poem is improvised, showing the twists and turns of the poet's feelings in an instant. The language is concise, and there is no trace of modification in the wording and sentence making. Unlike most of Li Shangyin's poems, which are rich in rhetoric, exquisite in allusions and good at symbolism, this poem is simple and natural, and also has the artistic characteristics of "deep sustenance and gentle wording". This poem is ingenious, ups and downs, concise, concise, short-lived, and has implicit power. It has attracted countless readers for thousands of years, making people never tire of reading.
Author Li Shangyin introduced:
Li Shangyin was born in Xingyang, Zhengzhou, and Qinyang, Hanoi (now Jiaozuo, Henan). He is good at poetry writing, and his parallel prose also has high literary value. He is one of the most outstanding poets in the late Tang Dynasty. Together with Du Mu, it is called "Xiao", and together with Wen, it is called "Wen Li". Because his poems and essays are similar to the paragraphs and essays of the same period, all three of them rank sixteenth in the family, so they are also called "Thirty-six Style". His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems are touching, beautiful and moving, and are widely read. However, some poems are too obscure to be solved, and there is even a saying that "poets always love Quincy and hate that no one writes about Jian Zheng". Caught in the struggle between Niu and Li, I was frustrated all my life. After his death, he was buried in his hometown of Qinyang (now the junction of Qinyang and Aibo County in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province). His works are included in Li Yishan's poems.