Poems about talking all night long

The night rain is sent to the north

Tang Dynasty: Li Shangyin

The king asked about the return date but the date was not yet met. The night rain in Bashan swelled the autumn pond. ?

Why should I cut off the candles from the west window and talk about the rainy night in Bashan?

Translation: You ask me when I will go back, but I haven’t set a date yet. At this moment, the night rain in Bashan is pouring down, and the rainwater has filled the autumn river ponds. When will I be able to return to my hometown and have a heart-to-heart talk while cutting candles under the west window? Then I will tell you how lonely I am as a guest in Bashan tonight and listen to the continuous rain at night, and how much I miss you!

Extended information:

This is a simple little poem. The whole poem is as clear as words, bright and fresh, with no excitement, no allusions, and no symbols. This is rare in Li Shangyin's poems. Most of his works are famous for their "gorgeous" diction. This poem is just four sentences long, and it just says: You ask me when I will return, but I don’t know the date of my return.

In Bashan at night, the autumn rain is falling continuously, and the pond is full of autumn water. When can I cut candles with you and talk at night under the west window, and then talk about today's rainy night in Bashan?

Generally speaking, modern poetry should avoid literal repetition. However, in this poem, the author seems to deliberately repeat the phrase "night rain on Bashan Mountain", and the night rain on Bashan Mountain has indeed become the most impressive image in the whole poem. This image appears twice in the poem, but it gives people completely different feelings.

The first appearance of "Bashan Night Rain" in "Bashan Night Rain Rising in the Autumn Pond" is the background of the poet's reality. It points out the poet's time and space location at that time: autumn, rainy night, Bashan ; It is also a portrayal of the poet's sadness of traveling alone in a foreign land as a stranger. Bashan, which here refers to the land of Shu, was still an undeveloped "desolate land" during Li Shangyin's era.

In the continuous autumn rain, the long autumn night, alone in a desolate place, the poet's sorrow of life experience, the feeling of wandering, and the feeling of longing are just like the rain at night in Bashan and the pattering of autumn water in the pond, overflowing in his heart. At this point in writing, the miserable autumn wind and rain seem to have soaked into the back of the paper and chilled me to my bones. However, the poet changed his writing at this time: "How can I cut the candles from the west window and talk about the rainy night in Bashan."

A warm and romantic scene immediately replaced the miserable wind and rain just now. The "night rain in Bashan" here is in imagination, zoomed out into a faint memory - the misty and cold autumn night, as if just to set off the swaying red candle under the west window; the pattering rain in Bashan. The sound seemed to be just an accompaniment to the whispers in my ears at this time.

The same night rain in Bashan suddenly became so tender and nostalgic. Maybe happiness is like this, it needs comparison and reflection. Only in comparison with past misfortune or sorrow can the current happiness be presented to the greatest extent, right? As people often say nowadays, it is "remembering the bitter and thinking of the sweet".

In Li Shangyin's case, when he and his beloved wife were cutting candles on the west window, they cuddled together and watched the night rain in Bashan. When the poet wrote such a poem, he was actually looking at the happiness "at that time" in the distance, because Bashan Yeyu had not yet transformed from the background of reality into the background of memories. He was only imagining it at this time. , looking forward to the near future when I can look at this moment happily in that way.

But even if it is just a distant look at happiness, it has already immersed the poet in some kind of happiness. The Bashan Mountain in the night and the autumn water in the pond are thus given a layer of poetic beauty.

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