After Li Shangyin's death, his good friend Cui Jue wrote two songs "Crying Li Shangyin" to mourn him. There is a cloud in the poem: "I lost my great talent in Lingyun and I have never won it in my life." These two poems are the truest portrayal of Li Shangyin's life.
Li Shangyin, a man who has never cared about it all his life, naturally has a lot of sad words in his poems. This kind of sadness is most profound in his classic masterpiece The Storm.
wind and rain
Li shangyin
Although I have an ambitious heart, and I also have the heroic poem "Bright Sword", it is not the most popular, and I have stayed in this strange place for a long time.
The yellow leaves are withered, the wind and rain are still destroyed, the noble buildings are rich, and the broad masses of people are playing beautiful dances and impatient strings.
New friends are covered with secularism, so old friends are separated by layers.
I shout for Xinfeng wine from my heart. How many thousands do you want to fight?
Some people say that this poem is only the title of the third sentence called "Wind and Rain", but it is actually an untitled poem. This is probably because Li Shangyin has read too many untitled poems, and Li Shangyin's poems all look like untitled poems.
The theme of this poem is to lament the storms of life. "Wind and rain" refers to both the wind and rain of nature and the wind and rain of life. Li Shangyin, a poet, had ups and downs all his life and became a victim of the "Party struggle between Niu and Li". The sad storm expressed the poet's sad mood.
Therefore, Storm is a real title, not an untitled title.
Although I have an ambitious heart, and I also have the heroic poem "Bright Sword", it is not the most popular, and I have stayed in this strange place for a long time.
The Story of the Sword is a famous work by Guo Zhen, a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, and Gu Jian is one of them. Gu Jian's dust burial is used in the poem to express the unfairness in the absence of talents.
Escort: just to travel and wander. Poor year: all my life.
In his later years, Li Shangyin lived an endless wandering life and wrote sad and miserable poems.
The poet pointed his sword at his poem, which contained the contradiction between ideal ambition and life situation. Sword is a poem written by Guo Zhen (Zi Zhen), a famous poet in the early Tang Dynasty, when he was down and out. There is a saying in the poem: "If you don't make friends with the ranger directly, you will be close to the hero. His road was abandoned and drifted to the edge of Guyue. Although it is useless to bury it again, I can still be angry every night. " After Guo Zhen's poems were appreciated by Wu Zetian, he finally realized Kuang Guo's ambition.
Li Shangyin, a poet, also has Guo Zhen's talent and writes poems like swords, but he has no Guo Zhen's situation. The contrast between the two highlights Li Shangyin's sad mood.
The yellow leaves are withered, the wind and rain are still destroyed, the noble buildings are rich, and the broad masses of people are playing beautiful dances and impatient strings.
Yellow leaves: used as a metaphor. Still: still, still.
Brothel refers to a blue tall building. Here generally refers to exquisite buildings, that is, wealthy families.
Yellow leaves have withered, and the wind and rain are still destroying them. In the tall buildings of rich and noble families, rich people are singing and dancing lightly, playing anxious tubes and complicated strings.
The people upstairs are romantic and detached, and the poets downstairs feel dejected. His yellow leaves in the wind and rain have been devastated, further writing the bleak life experience of the poet Li Shangyin wandering in a foreign land.
New friends are covered with secularism, so old friends are separated by layers.
New knowledge: new friends.
Encounter vulgarity: encounter frivolous vulgarity.
Old friend: Old friend.
Cut off: cut off.
Some friends are worldly and frivolous, while others are alienated by layers of barriers.
"New knowledge" and "old friends" are intertextual, which means that a person's friends, whether new or new, have been worldly frivolous, and some people gradually alienate themselves just because they are deeply involved in the struggle of the Niuli Party. The embarrassing situation of life can highlight the coldness of the world.
I shout for Xinfeng wine from my heart. How many thousands do you want to fight?
Xinfeng Liquor: It is recorded in The Biography of Ma Zhou in the New Tang Dynasty that when Ma Zhou was dissatisfied, the owner of Su Xinfeng Hotel was very cold to him, and Ma Zhou asked for a barrel of eight liters of wine to drink alone. Later, it was often recommended, appreciated by Emperor Taizong, and awarded the censor.
Qian: refers to the price of wine, which is expensive.
If you want to cut off these inner pains, you must use Xinfeng wine to solve your worries, no matter whether the price is 10 thousand or 8 thousand.
Li Shangyin's Wind and Rain combines the allusions of famous people Guo Zhen and Ma Zhou in the Tang Dynasty. Both Guo Zhen and Ma Zhou were once looked down upon, but later they were appreciated. Where's Li Shangyin? He has never opened his arms in his life, and his life is like yellow leaves in the wind and rain.
Li Shangyin's Storm is a portrayal of his life situation. This poem is a generous and sad song, which he sang at the end of his life.
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Intensive reading of 300 Tang poems 072: the storm of Li Shangyin