Examples of puns in poetry

Falling Flowers

Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty

The guests in the high pavilion went unexpectedly, and the flowers in the small garden flew everywhere.

They were delivered all the way through the jagged streets. The slanting light.

The broken heart cannot bear to be swept away, and the eyes are still wanting to return.

My heart is exhausted towards spring, and the reward is the clothes.

The last couplet is a pun. Flowers Decorating the spring with life ended up withered and stained with clothes; while the poet had great ambitions, but suffered repeated setbacks, and ended up with a life of misery and disappointment, with tears dripping on clothes, a desolate mood, and infinite emotion.

Bamboo Branch Ci

Liu Yuxi

The willows are green and the river is level, and I hear the sound of Lang walking on the bank singing.

The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, but there is no clear sky on the road. Sunny.

The last two sentences: "The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, and the road is sunny but sunny" are two clever metaphors, using a semantic pun. "The sun rises in the east" is "There is sunshine" and "It rains in the west" means "no sunshine". "Qing" and "love" are homophonic, and "you have sunshine" and "no sunshine" are lingoes for "love" and "ruthlessness". "The sun rises in the east and it rains in the west." ", on the surface it is an explanation of "there is sunshine" and "without sunshine", but in fact it is a metaphor of "affectionate" and "ruthless". This made the girl feel really elusive and uneasy after hearing this. But she is a smart person As a woman, she knew clearly from the last sentence that her lover had feelings for her, because the emphasis on the words "you" and "no" in the sentence was "you". Therefore, she couldn't help but feel happy in her heart. This sentence Using puns, it not only describes the rainy weather on the river, but also cleverly depicts the girl's confusion, attachment and hope, a series of psychological activities.