Appreciation of Bai Di

The change of artistic conception in this poem is uneven. After the Storm depicts a bleak and devastated picture of the barren autumn plain, which is the epitome of the Tang society after the An Shi Rebellion.

The first couplet of the poem is to write the strange and dangerous scene of the Xiajiang River with the repetitive syntax of folk songs. When I climbed the Bai Di Tower, I felt the clouds rolling and surging outside the city gate, which was a great statement of the lofty mountain city. Looking down, the heavy rain "under the city" makes people feel that the city is still above the clouds and rain, lining the city again. These two sentences are put into the poem with common sayings, and the syllables are strange and flat, which does not conform to the general rhythm. They are rather awkward to read, but they also have a strong spirit.

The second part is from Rain Turn, which describes the rain scene in detail. Moreover, a pair of couplets is written with a pair of couplets, which is very clever. First of all, the successful use of sentence pairs makes the image concise and concentrated. "Gao Jiang" equals "Xia Ji" and "Gu Mu" equals "Cang Teng". "Thunder" and "Sun and Moon" each refer to one thing ("Sun and Moon" is a compound word with partial meaning, that is, referring to the sun), and they are opposite from top to bottom. In this way, six images are concentrated in two sentences, one by one rushing to the poet's pen, which really has a tendency to control the strings and vividly conveys the urgency of rain. "Gao Jiang" refers to the higher terrain of this section of the Yangtze River, which means "the river flows downstream"; "Urgent gorge" means that two mountains are sandwiched with water, which leads to the rapid flow of water in the gorge. If it turns into a rainstorm, the river will skyrocket and the water flow will become more urgent, which makes people feel like thunder. In terms of syllables, these two lines are completely in harmony, clumsy with the upper couplet, but have ups and downs. This kind of writing is very appreciated by later generations. Fan Wen, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said: "Every poem of Lao Du is a semi-finished product, and so is ancient prose. If you are all clumsy, take nothing and let them all work, you will be anxious, and there will be no queer spirits. " (Qian Shi Yan)

These two couplets first express their happiness with sex and rain, and secretly write the turmoil of the times. In fact, they are creating momentum, paving the way for showing the social outlook in blood shed.

In the second half of the song, the realm changed suddenly, from intense tension to gloomy sadness. The thunder faded away, the rain curtain was sparse, and a gloomy vilen appeared in front of the poet. The necklace is what you see: the idle "returning carbine" on the wasteland and the looted village. The word "Yi" here is worth noting. The horse in front of me is very relaxed, as if it were a ownerless horse. Although there is no need to pull carts to farm, isn't its fate very sad? The decadence of ten rooms and nine empty rooms is even more shocking. This couplet also uses antithesis, but the form is different from the first couplet, that is, words with the same morpheme are placed at the beginning and end of the sentence, forming a tone of response, singing and sighing, conveying the poet's endless feelings and sighs, which is in sharp contrast to the above-mentioned sudden tone.

Everywhere the scenery is bleak and bleak, and how the people live makes people angry. It accuses the dark reality with a typical tragic image. Lonely and helpless widows are sad all the time, with sadness and pain. Her husband may have died in the war, but the government has not spared her family, so others can imagine. Finally, I wrote that there are cries in the wasteland, and even in the autumn of harvest, its predicament can be imagined. "Where is the village" means that it is not clear which village someone is crying, resulting in an endless tragic atmosphere. Actually, that means not crying everywhere. The uneven change of artistic conception in this poem is worth noting. The first is the transformation of the front and back realms, as if the band played a tearful voice after the golden drum sounded; It's like the scene of the movie After the Storm, and then the scene of the devastated abandoned village of Akihara. This change is the epitome of the Tang society after the An Shi Rebellion. Secondly, there are changes in the upper and lower links, even within a link. For example, two sentences written by Zhuan Xu about the color of the rain scene are different. Every sentence is like a horde, and the battle is miserable, paving the way for the artistic conception behind it. This multi-level change makes the artistic conception richer, ups and downs rather than dull.

In art, this song is also very distinctive: first of all, the realm is open. Poets are full of changing descriptions, uneven levels, and whoever is open is closed. In the poem, the poet describes the scene of the storm, and at the same time shows the reader a bleak scene of the devastated autumn plain. Secondly, borrow scenery to express emotion. In poetry, this poem uses the sudden storm in Bai Di as a metaphor for the war and turmoil in the Tang Dynasty. The desolation of decadence is a metaphor for the devastation of the country after the An Shi Rebellion. Through the description of such an environment, the poet expressed his melancholy and grief over the social reality of national turmoil and people's poverty.