1, "Silent Night Thinking" Tang Libai
The foot of my bed is shining so brightly. Is there frost already?
I looked up at the moon and looked down, feeling nostalgic.
On the silent moonlit night, the poet misses his hometown. By depicting two elements, moonlight and homesickness, he shows the loneliness of the wanderer and his deep yearning for his hometown. Poetry expresses the inner feelings of many wanderers with concise language and profound images, that is, their attachment and yearning for their hometown.
2, "Guan Shanyue" Tang Libai
A bright moon rises from Qilian Mountain and crosses the vast sea of clouds.
This is a land of wars in past dynasties, and few soldiers can survive.
This poem depicts the vast night scene of Guan Shanyue, expressing the cruelty of war and people's desire for peace. By describing the scene of the sea of clouds and the bright moon, the poet expressed his accusation of war and his yearning for peace with the scenery. At the same time, poetry also highlights the cruelty of war and the sadness of human nature.
3, "Drinking the Bright Moon Alone" Tang Libai
Flowers in the next pot of wine, no friends, drink alone.
Raise my cup, I invite the bright moon, which brings me its shadow and makes us three people.
This poem shows the poet's loneliness among flowers. By inviting the bright moon to accompany him, it shows the poet's pursuit of sincere emotion and free spirit. Poetry personifies natural scenery in a romantic way, creates a scene of dialogue between poets and nature, and shows the poet's inner loneliness and freedom spirit.
4, "Moonlight Remembering Brothers" Tang Du Fu
The dew turns to frost tonight, and the moonlight at home is bright!
Brothers are scattered, and no one can ask about life and death.
This poem shows that the poet was separated from his younger brother in the An Shi Rebellion. He expressed his concern and homesickness for his younger brother by describing the moonlit night and homesickness. With concise language and profound images, poetry expresses people's displacement during the war, the pain of separation of flesh and blood, and their nostalgia and yearning for their hometown.
Characteristics of five-character quatrains:
1, the language is concise and implicit: there are only five words in each sentence of a five-character quatrain, which needs to express profound feelings and artistic conception in a short form. Therefore, this poetic language must be concise and implicit, and it can treat one as ten. For example, he knows that the dew will be frost tonight, and that there is how bright in the moonlight at home! Du Fu's Moonlight Remembers Brothers succinctly expresses the poet's deep attachment to his hometown.
2. Novel conception and far-reaching artistic conception: Five-character quatrains are often deeply impressed by their unique conception and far-reaching artistic conception. For example, Wang Zhihuan's In the Lodge of the Heron shows a magnificent natural scene in a far-reaching way, which makes readers have a deeper understanding and sentiment of life.
3. Beautiful rhythm, strong sense of rhythm: five-character quatrains pay attention to rhyming antithesis, strong sense of rhythm and musicality. For example, in Wang Zhihuan's Heron House, the mountains cover the day and the sea exhausts the golden river. The first two sentences in the poem rhyme harmoniously, while the last two sentences are neat, which makes the whole poem full of beautiful rhythm and strong sense of rhythm.