The poet reflected an emotional portrait with many images. Grasp the most expressive side-the face that can best express people's mental outlook, and depict sideburns, eyebrows and eyes with delicate brushstrokes, thus revealing profound themes. First of all, writing "old and desolate" from the sideburns shows that this is not a young face. Youth has already disappeared in the war, and the gray sideburns are stained with the frost of the years, which is called "starry sky" by the poet. "Starry sky" often gives people deep feelings and infinite reverie. However, at this moment, the stars are full of tears, suggesting sadness, which inevitably reminds people of the sad experience of this woman in those years when her youth has passed away. Then the poet endowed his eyebrows with the image of "single sail" In the vast ocean and biting sea breeze, a solitary sail floats in the ripples of seawater, which reminds people of the helplessness and loneliness of women who have gone through hardships and pains in the stormy waves of life, quite similar to Li Qingzhao's style of "compassion for others". Next, the author describes a person's most expressive eyes. It is no longer a clear and bright eye unique to women, but a pair of eyes that have experienced too many hardships and lost confidence in life, just like stagnant water. At that moment, there was nowhere to vent the pain and suffering, which condensed into "water drops" and "like ripe sour grapes", but the crystal tears were sour. Even so, they should be "reserved for greedy drunkards". Suffering from bitterness to make a living and struggling in the shackles of pain are hard to get rid of, which makes his miserable life more intense. "Purple" is the only strong color in the poem, which further exaggerates the tragic fate of this woman.
The poet skillfully uses common images such as "solo sail" and "sour grapes" and weaves them into his poems naturally and skillfully, so what he presents to people is not only a sad lyric poem, but also a tragic freehand painting.