Analysis of "Dream" in Li Bai's Climbing Mount Tianmu in a Dream
Abstract: This paper interprets the dream in Dream of Mount Tianmu. By comparing Li Bai's early life experience in Tianbao, this paper makes a comprehensive analysis of this dream image from two aspects: content and form. It is believed that the dream written by Li Bai conforms to Li Bai's life and ideological reality during his twenty-three years in Tianbao, which is a reflection of the ups and downs of Li Bai's career at this stage, a process of seeking self-liberation and spiritual purification, and a witness of Li Bai's spiritual breakthrough.
Keywords: Li Bai's dream breakthrough
First of all, the dream theory is untenable.
Li Bai's "Climbing Mount Tianmu in a Dream" (also known as "Don't Record Zhu Gong") is a farewell poem written for friends in the second year of Li Bai's expulsion from Chang 'an, that is, in the fourth year of Tianbao, when he was preparing to travel from eastern Shandong to South Vietnam. As a representative of romantic poetry, it is different from ordinary farewell poems, mainly reflected in bold and strange dreams. The interpretation of dreams has become the key to the interpretation of this poem. Is the dream in the poem a dream or a nightmare or something else? Let's take a look at the interpretation of famous artists first. When analyzing this poem, You Guoen's History of China Literature, etc. , put forward: "dripping and carefree poetry pen wrote the poet's various spiritual adventures and pursuits, as if the poet's repressed soul had been truly liberated in a dream"; "The freedom and beauty in the dream strengthened his hatred and resistance to the powerful in reality. He is addicted to the life of finding immortals by eating a meal and drinking a little dew, but he also understands that this life is just a helpless means to dispel his troubles. " In "Selected Literary Works of China in Past Dynasties" edited by Zhu Dongrun, the answer to the poem is: "The poem expresses the warm yearning for places of interest and the immortal world by romanticism and sleepwalking, and shows the author's contempt for the secular, the powerful and the pursuit of freedom." After analyzing the dream of the poem, Xiao Difei and others' Shanghai Appreciation Dictionary of Tang Poetry pointed out: "The author's longing for the famous mountains and fairyland stems from the struggle against the powerful and powerful, and sings the voices of many talented people in feudal society." In the elective book "Tianmu Mountain Ascending to Heaven in Dreams", the experimental textbook of Chinese in the senior high school curriculum standard of People's Education Society, it is said: "He travels around the mountains and seeks immortality to visit the Tao, expressing his resistance to the strong in a way far from reality and pursuing individual freedom"; "The main part of this poem is to write dreams and fantasy worlds, to set off the ugliness of the real world with the beauty of the fantasy world, and to set off the frustration and frustration of the real world with the poet's free roaming in the fantasy world." These views are basically the same, that is, Li Bai's "dream" of "sleepwalking in the sky" is a beautiful dream, and the world in the dream is the immortal world that the poet yearns for. If this is a beautiful dream, why does the poet lament in horror? "I moved, my soul flew, suddenly stunned, for a long time." These two sentences should be the key to our understanding of the whole dream. If the dream is beautiful, how can it make Li Bai's soul tremble, and how can it make him "start" and "grow up"? From a psychological point of view, a person with a beautiful dream will never feel this way. Because sweet dreams are always unforgettable and long-awaited, and they always want to be completed as long as possible. However, Li Bai was awakened by a dream. When he woke up, he didn't think there was anything to remember. On the contrary, he was worried and shocked. From this perspective, the "dream theory" is untenable.