Autumn Night on the River is the work of modern poet Liu Dabai 1923, which is included in the collection of poems "Kiss by Mail" by Mingkai Bookstore 1926. From the overall framework, this poem adopts the popular style of small poems at that time, and its small description, concise outline, prose sentence pattern and improvisation all show the style of Tagore and Japanese haiku.
The original poem is as follows:
The homing birds, though tired, bring the sunset back.
Flap your wings and set the sunset on the river;
Reed with white heads has also been made into beautiful moments.
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Creation background: In the 1920s, the poets who wrote new poems were greatly influenced by the old ones, so the new poems at that time all had a strong style of the old ones. In addition to writing in vernacular, the artistic conception and expression of poetry are often not much different from those of old poems. This is a major feature of poetry at that time.
The same is true of Liu Dabai, the author of this poem. Although he tried to write a pure vernacular poem, the rhyme of this poem still follows the original requirements of classical poetry, so we can still see the traces of its influence by old poems. "Autumn Night on the River" was created in this environment.
"The bird that returned to its nest, though tired, still came back with the sunset." The tired bird wanted to go back to its nest. At that time, it was getting late. The afterglow of the sunset shines on the bird's back and wings, as if bringing the sunset back to its nest. The evening scenery, in the poet's pen, has a sad beauty.
"Tired" and "shouldering" are key words. It is the imagination of the poet and the emotional migration of the poet. Birds are tired, so are people. On the one hand, the word "Tuo" is a further rendering of the scenery and an absurd imagination, on the other hand, it also highlights the fatigue degree of birds, because Tuo is a load and the sun carries it. In this way, what you see is not only a kind of scenery, but also the poet's experience of life. ?
"Flap your wings and throw the sunset on the river." The poet originally only paid attention to the birds on the river and the sunset shining on them. When the birds turned their wings, they noticed the reflection of the sunset on the river. The reflection of the sunset seems to fall from the wings of birds. The birds are very tired, but they still carry the sunset on their backs. They don't think it is a heavy burden. In the poet's view, it is birds carrying the sunset to dye the river. The scene is very touching.
The second paragraph is the continuation and development of the first paragraph. It's not that the sunset sank to the bottom of the river, but that the sunset was turned over by the wings of birds in the river, which is very expressive. It is an extremely exaggerated and logical dynamic description. It is not so much a natural extension of the birds carrying the sunset as a deepening of the poet's imagination. It makes the sunset sink into the river, and the scene at this moment is even more superb. At the same time, it is also an emotional development for birds to flap their wings and shake off the sunset. Explain that birds are overwhelmed and want to live a free life. ?
"The reeds with white heads have also been made into beautiful moments." The poet turned his eyes from the river to the reeds by the river. The afterglow of the sunset dyed the rivers and reeds red. In an instant, the white reed turned into a beauty. From the wings of birds to rivers and reeds, the scenery in front of us is red. In autumn dusk, it forms a beautiful picture on the river.
The whole poem is full of the emotional appeal of the old poem, with only a few strokes, that is, it outlines a beautiful picture with sound and emotion, and at the same time it has the poet's own style, just like the last two sentences, which personifies the reed through "makeup" and "beauty", adding a little interest and vitality to the whole poem.