This poem means to watch the beacon tower during the day and lead a horse to drink water near Jiaohe River at dusk. This poem comes from an ancient war song by Li Qi, which satirizes the opening of Xuanzong in Tang Dynasty and is full of anti-war thoughts.
The whole poem is deliberately step by step, and finally makes the finishing point, landing on the theme, showing its ironic pen power.
An old battle song
During the day, the beacon tower climbing the mountain observes and gives an alarm, and at night, the horse leads the horse to the riverside.
The dark wind blew bursts of sounds, like the pipa of a princess in the Han Dynasty, full of hidden grievances.
The clouds in the wilderness are not near the city wall at all, and the rain and snow cover the boundless desert.
The sorrowful Hu Yanyan flew through the air, and HUS soldiers were all in tears.
It is said that Yumenguan has blocked the road, so the soldiers can only follow the general around.
The bones of death are buried in the wilderness every year, and only grapes from the western regions are sent to the Han people.
The whole poem is compact, deliberate and compact, until the last sentence, making the finishing point and going straight to the theme, which shows the great irony of this poem. Poetry skillfully uses syllables to express ideas.
The word "day" at the beginning of the first sentence is entering the tone, which means opening the drum. In the third and fourth sentences, "Diao Dou" and "Pipa Xing" use disyllables to enhance the aesthetic feeling of syllables.
The middle part turns to rhyme, and "double falling" is the coordination of Jiangyang rhyme and entering tone, just like the ensemble of cymbals and drums, with wide upper part and narrow lower part and the most beautiful syllables. After entering the rhyme in the middle section, the last section chose the six-hemp rhyme with the largest mouth opening. As far as five syllables are concerned, the first paragraph is feather tone, the middle part is angular tone, and the last paragraph is Shang tone, with scattered syllables and great differences.
The words "one after another", "night after night", "double" and "year after year" in the whole poem are used one after another, which not only emphasizes the semantics, but also makes the words overlap with the rhyme, giving birth to many colors on the syllables.