Therefore, it can be said that these are two clever metaphors. Express a kind of nostalgia and regret for the beautiful people and things that once existed in life and disappeared.
The whole poem consists of a series of metaphors, which are obscure and true, rhythmic, organized and intricate in description. This is a masterpiece of love poems. Later generations used it to compose music, which was widely circulated.
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Flowers are not flowers.
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, come at midnight and go at dawn.
When did a short and beautiful spring dream come? When they leave, they are like clouds in the morning.
Like flowers, like fog. Arrive at midnight and leave after dawn. Come like a spring dream, how much time can you have? When I went there, it seemed that the clouds were gone and there was no place to look.
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There are two mourning poems in Bai's Changqing Collection: Mother's Tomb and Bamboo Slips Poetry. This poem "Flowers Are Not Flowers" is the same volume as the above two poems, which was later compiled. The poem "Flowers Are Not Flowers" was written for the same purpose at about the same time as the poem "Bamboo Slips". According to poetry, the past is beautiful, just like a dream, no more sighs.
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