On the Images of Lights and Candles in Li Shangyin's Poems

"Lamp and candle" is one of Li Shangyin's favorite images, which he wrote many times in his poems. Before him.

In poetry, lights and candles have many symbolic meanings. Sometimes it is the warmth of love, and sometimes it is the desire for friendship; have

Sometimes it is a helpless whisper, and sometimes it is a lost loneliness; Sometimes it is a bright road sign of longing, and sometimes it is a wandering eye.

Batter. In the couplets, "Spring wine warms me while it warms me. I'll show you how to gamble. Fencao shoots Shinohara's wax lamp red" and "wax lamp red" is brightly colored.

Feeling, like the "spring wine warming up" mentioned above, is actually a symbol of the poet's love psychology. Imagine,

On that spring night, many people got together to drink, sing and laugh. exist

Among them, only one woman is related to the poet. As the night deepens, the wax lamp becomes more and more red, and this kind of light,

So warm and sweet, isn't it the comfort of such a bosom friend in the poet's heart? candle

It seems to be a fixed image used by poets to symbolize love. "Tears dry in the dying years" is sung through the ages.

Isn't that the poet's persistent pursuit of love? "Never-ending, even this bright flame of love will only be ashes? ."

It is the extreme of this symbol again. In "When * * * cuts the candle at the west window, but talks about the rain at night", the lamp candle is again

It symbolizes friendship. The poet is far away in the southern shogunate, missing his friends in the north, and he can't meet each other because of the long journey. poet

Wave away, don't write your own lovesickness, think about the future: under the west window, in the candlelight, I face you face to face.

At that time, I will tell you my lovesickness. The candlelight here is actually the reappearance of the poet's inner image and friendship image.

Sign. When the poet is disappointed and sparse, the lamp becomes a symbol of silence and breadth. In "there are two red mansions facing the cold, hidden rain, pearls and foils floating."

In the couplet "Lights Alone", the poet visited his old lover but didn't meet him. He returned disappointed, and the lamp was a symbol of his loneliness.

This is also the true expression of his loss.