Two poems about wind and rain on November 4th
Lu You? [Song Dynasty]
The wind swept through the rivers and lakes, and the rain darkened the village, and the sound of the four mountains made the waves roll.
The firewood in the creek is soft and warm, so the raccoon slave and I don’t go out.
Lying stiffly in a lonely village, I don’t feel sorry for myself, but I still think about guarding the Luntai for the country.
I lie down at night listening to the wind and rain, and the iron horse glacier falls into my dream.
The strong wind seemed to be rolling up the rivers and lakes, and the rain dimmed the village. The sound of the wind and rain blowing on the surrounding mountains was like the rolling waves of the sea.
The small bundle of firewood produced by Ruoye Creek and the blanket wrapped around us were very warm, and neither the cat nor I wanted to go out.
Living in poverty in an isolated village, lying bedridden, not feeling sad about his situation, but thinking about guarding the border for the country. At the end of the night,
I lay in bed and heard the sound of wind and rain, and dreamed that I was riding an armored horse across the frozen river to fight in the northern battlefield.
Appreciation
The first poem mainly talks about the heavy rain on November 4th and the poet's situation. The first two sentences use exaggeration to describe the pouring rain. The sound is so loud that it depicts the dark sky, strong winds and heavy rain. It is very vivid. The sound of the waves is consistent with the author's desire to contribute to the country and regain the Central Plains. The last two sentences are transferred to describe the situation close by, and the author does not want to go out because of the cold weather. The beauty of it is that the author's subjective feeling is combined with the cat.
The second poem uses the technique of "turning love into a dream" to profoundly express the author's ambition to regain the country and serve the motherland, as well as the unswerving spirit of "not fading even with age", and to The reader shows the poet's daring loyalty.
The first two lines of the poem are "Lying stiffly in a lonely village without feeling sorry for oneself, but still thinking about guarding the Luntai for the country." Lying down, lying upright, means that the author is old and weak. The author was already 68 at the time. age. Gucun, a small remote village, refers to the author’s hometown of Shanyin. Shu means to guard. Luntai is the name of a place in the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty. In present-day Luntai County, Xinjiang, it refers to the northern border defense stronghold of the Song Dynasty. The meaning of the two sentences is: I drag my sick body and lie in this remote small village, but I am not sad about my difficult situation. I still want to guard the northern border for the country. "Lying in a lonely village without feeling sorry for oneself" describes the author's actual situation and mental state. "Thinking of guarding the Luntai for the country" is an explanation of the mental state of "not feeling sad for oneself", echoing the situation before and after, forming a contrast.
The four words "zombified, lying, solitary, and village" describe the author's desolate situation at this time. The word "zhu" means old age, aging of muscles and bones; the word "ly" means sick, often in bed; the word "gu" means living a lonely life, not only living in a remote place, but also having depressed thoughts and no close friends; The poet lives in a poor village and leads a miserable life as an old man in a deserted village. The four characters describe the author's current life situation of loneliness, embarrassment and neglect after he resigned from office and returned to his hometown. There is an atmosphere of sadness that makes people very sympathetic. But then the mood of the three words "Don't feel sorry for yourself" changed sharply, and an optimistic and bold atmosphere appeared again. The poet does not feel sad about his situation. Poverty, illness and desolation are nothing worthy of sadness for him. The poet himself "does not feel sorry for himself", and of course he does not need sympathy from others. But he needs to understand, understand his lifelong aspiration for unification, understand his lifelong struggle for this ambition, understand his full of passion and loyalty, which is the mental state of "still thinking about defending the Luntai for the country".
These two lines of poems are the best explanation of the poet's soul and personality. When mountains and rivers are broken, and national crises are at hand, "meat-eaters plan for it", the poet does not need to do anything else. In addition, it was precisely because of his "happy discussion restoration" and his zeal to resist the enemy that the poet was repeatedly attacked, and finally resigned from office and lived idle. As an old man in his seventies, he has had a clear conscience throughout his life and has fulfilled his responsibilities for the future and destiny of the country. However, he will not be responsible for the fate of the country in the future. Secondly, although it is said that "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world," the poet, as an old and sickly old man, can no longer bear the obligation to serve his country and kill his enemies. As a seventy-year-old man with neither responsibilities nor obligations, he still has the ambition to "defend the Luntai for the country", which makes people awe-inspiring and generous. In comparison, those dignitaries who humiliated themselves and surrendered and those who lived an ignoble existence, who shouldered responsibilities and obligations but had no intention of returning to the country, looked small and despicable.
"Lying at night listening to the wind and rain" closely follows the previous two sentences. If you can't fall asleep late at night because of "thinking", if you can't sleep, you will feel the wind and rain in nature more clearly. From the wind and rain in nature, you will think of the country's precarious situation, and from the country's precarious situation, you will naturally think of the wind and clouds of war and the military in the prime of life. Life. Listening and thinking like this, tossing and turning, he transformed into a special dream - "Iron Horse Glacier", and "coming into the dream" reflects the sadness of political reality: the poet wanted to serve the country but was rejected and could not kill the enemy. He had a feeling of fending off the enemy. It can only be described as a dream. "The iron horse falls into the glacial river in a dream" is exactly the result of the poet's thoughts day and night, and vividly expresses the poet's heroic spirit. This is also the voice of a generation of people with lofty ideals and the national integrity of the Southern Song Dynasty.