Analysis and Appreciation of the Answers to Zhang Hu's Poem To My Wife

One in the Forbidden City

Zhang Hu

The moon mark on the forbidden tree has passed, and I only look at the heron nest.

By the light of the lamp, I plucked the Hosta and carried the flame of the lamp to rescue the flame moth.

Note (1) Concubine: the person in the imperial palace refers to the maid-in-waiting. As soon as they entered the inner court of the deep palace, they were isolated from the outside world and deprived of freedom and happiness in life. ② Forbidden door: Gongmen. ③ Red flame: refers to the wick.

1. What kind of maid-in-waiting image has poetry created? Please analyze this poem briefly. (6 points)

Read the first sentence carefully and talk about how the poet uses the scenery to express his feelings. (5 points)

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1. A desolate and lonely maid-in-waiting, young, kind and beautiful. (2 points) "Glare" shows the beauty of a young girl, (1 point) in the forbidden palace, isolated from the world. "Look Only" embodies a woman's loneliness and desolation, and only a nest of birds on the branches can accompany her. (2 points) A series of actions such as "diagonal pulling", "pulling away" and "saving" reflect the kindness of the girl, and she can't bear to die like a moth. ( 1)

2. Lyricism with scenery: The trees planted in the palace next to the heavily guarded palace gate set off an environment where the palace is strictly forbidden and closed. (2 points) Use "month" to point out the time and set off a hazy feeling. (1) expresses the boredom, loneliness and cold of people standing under the moon and staring. Judging from the "moon mark", it means the passage of time and the waste of youth. (2 points)

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1. Test analysis: The second sentence of the poem says that "my wife" looks up at the heron nest. Birds are still free to fly out of palaces and warm nests. When can they go out of the palace and return to their hometown? Staring is full of yearning for freedom and happiness. The third and fourth sentences of "My wife" in the poem show the kindness of the girl by pulling the Hosta to save the moth. When she saw the moth put out the fire, she felt sad for her fate like a moth, so she raised the red flame and saved the moth. This is not only pity for the moth, but also pity for her own fate. This question can be answered accordingly.

Test center: appreciate the image, language and expression skills of literary works. The ability level is appreciation evaluation D.

2. Test and analysis: "Forbidden Palace Tree" points out the location, which sets off the strictness of the Forbidden Palace, the massiness of the gate and the depth of the closed environment. "Moon mark" indicates time, giving people a hazy feeling, and then the word "Guo" implies that people under the moon stand and stare for a long time in boredom. This question can be answered accordingly.

Appreciate:

To My Wife is a poem by Zhang Hu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem praises the lonely and boring life of ladies-in-waiting, and describes their longing for true love and their tragic situation. The first two sentences are about the loneliness and depression of imperial secretary's life; The last two sentences show her boredom and sympathy for the weak by writing two vivid actions: the imperial secretary sits around, pulls out the jade hairpin and saves the moth. The whole poem is full of color, implicit and meaningful, and every sentence depicts the lonely mood of the imperial secretary, which is intriguing.

This is a poem about palace grievances, but the poet's ingenuity is unique and does not stick to the old pattern. He neither described their bleak and lonely lives positively, nor directly expressed their endless grievances. Only through one of the two subtle movements under the moon and the lamp, she reflected her experience, situation and mood.

At first glance, the first sentence of this poem, "Moon Marks on the Forbidden Palace Tree", is an ordinary sentence of scenery writing, but the poet has spent a lot of time in choosing words and making sentences. The "Forbidden Palace Tree" points out the location, but the door says "Forbidden Door" and the tree says "Forbidden Palace Tree", which sets off the strict forbidden palace and the closed door. "Moon mark" means time, but saying "Moon mark" on the moon gives people a hazy feeling. The word "past" is more meaningful, which not only implies that the person who is about to appear under the moon has stood and stared for a long time in boredom, but also implies that this person's youth is wasted from the passage of time.

The second sentence, "Just look at the night heron's nest", closely follows the scene written in the previous sentence, which leads people to look up at the scenery on the ground. The word "glad eye" shows that the person who looks at the scenery is a woman and a beautiful girl. The Book of Songs Feng Wei Shuo Ren vividly expresses the beauty of Zhuang Jiang with the words "beautiful eyes and longing". But it's a pity that this beautiful girl has bright eyes and can't see the world outside the forbidden door. At the moment, in the moonlight, she is looking at the heron's nest, not only looking, but also "only looking" because in a palace like a prison, the environment is so monotonous that there is really nothing to see. She had no choice but to look at the heron nest hanging high in the palace tree. It may also be because there are many scenery around, but only the heron nest on the treetop is full of life, which attracts her attention. Here, the poet did not further reveal her inner activities when she "only looked at the heron's nest", leaving it to the readers to imagine. Let's assume that when the moon passes through the palace tree, the birds have been thrown into the forest. When she gazes at the heron's nest, she will think: Birds still have homes, or "homes". They can also fly out of the forbidden door and roam the vast world, but they don't know when they can fly out of the cage and return to the world. A pair of eyes are full of yearning for freedom and happiness.

In the second half of the poem, a scene is changed, and the camera moves from outdoor to indoor, from the treetops in the palace to the indoor lights, showing a close-up of Xiela Hosta saving moths. The previous sentence "Dumping Jade Wood and Light Shadows" depicts the poet's extremely beautiful female action with extremely delicate brushwork, showing the charm of a girl. The last sentence, "Open a red flame to save moths", shows the intention of "pulling the Hosta" and shows the girl's kind wish. Here, the poet did not further reveal her inner activities. The reader can imagine that if she is not as sentimental as a bird when she sees a bird returning home, then when she sees a moth thrown into the fire, she will feel sad for her fate like a moth. Saving the moth is both pity for the moth and pity for herself.

This is a profound and intriguing poem about palace grievances, which is unique in artistic conception and expression.