Bai Juyi used a series of vivid metaphors to describe the pipa sound in Pipa Story, which is regarded as the swan song of describing music in classical poetry. For example, big strings hum like rain, and small strings whisper like secrets. Humming, whispering-and then mixing together, like pouring large and small pearls into a plate of jade. Between Guan Ying's words, the bottom of the flower is slippery, so you can't swallow the spring scenery and flow under the ice.
Among them, the poem describing the pipa girl's hesitation is: We shouted a thousand times before she began to walk towards us, still hiding half of her face behind her guitar.
The poems that show the lonely situation of pipa girls in their old age are: first, my brother went to war, then my aunt died, and the night went away and the beauty faded. Lengma was at the door, so at last she gave her wife to a businessman.
She has been guarding an empty boat at the mouth of the river, with no one to accompany her. Only the bright moon and cold water are poems that set off the melancholy and loneliness of Pipa girl sitting alone on the empty boat by the moon.
The poem that not only expresses the theme of the whole poem, but also expresses the feelings between the poet and the pipa girl is: we are all unhappy-at the end of the day, we meet. We understand. What is the relationship between acquaintances? !
By writing about the misfortunes of Pipa girl's life, combined with the poet's own blow on her official career, she sang the voice of "We are both unhappy-we meet each other forever". We understand. What is the relationship between acquaintances? ”。 Social unrest, the indifference of the world, sympathy for the fate of the unfortunate, and feelings of frustration are all poured into the poem. Its artistic success also lies in the use of beautiful and distinctive language with musical sense, and the use of visual images to express the feelings gained by hearing; The natural scenery and parting of the bleak autumn wind make the work more touching.
In this poem, the poet made great efforts to shape the image of the pipa girl, profoundly reflecting the tragic fate of musicians and artists who were insulted and damaged in feudal society, and expressing the feeling that "neither of us is happy-we will grow old forever". At the beginning of the poem, I wrote "seeing guests off in autumn night", "suddenly smelling" and "playing the pipa", so I asked for a voice "secretly asking" and "moving the boat" and invited to meet each other. After a long time, the singer came out with his mask half open. This kind of echo and tortuous description laid the foundation stone for the theme of "doomsday reduction"
Then through the description of the music played by the pipa girl, the inner world of the pipa girl is revealed. First of all, there is love in the unfinished music, and then there are strings, sounds and readings, which show the ups and downs of the pipa girl.
Then, she went on to write about the life of the pipa girl: her skills taught her to be "talented and obedient", her appearance was "the beauty envied by all major dancers", the teenagers in Kyoto were "tied with their heads" and "a song gave countless red silks". However, the description of time, such as resentment, longing and crying, and her "singing every night, beauty withers", finally had to "marry a businessman's wife" These songs complement each other and complete the shaping of the image of pipa girl.
Finally, the poet's emotional wave was inspired by the fate of the pipa girl, and he sighed: "We are all unhappy-we meet forever. We understand. What is the relationship between acquaintances? " Expressed the feelings of being in the same boat and helping each other in the same boat. Poetry is lively, step by step, dotted everywhere.
They are all endless themes. Like a surging river, it is undulating and enduring. Repeatedly chanting, swinging people's minds, infinite feelings. The language is forceful and vivid. Like a shower, like a whisper, like a splash, like the sound of a sword, like a pearl falling on a jade plate, like the bottom of a flower. These sound like it, as if they were in the air.