The second of Tao Yuanming's miscellaneous poems

The second miscellaneous poem, Tao Yuanming (Eastern Jin Dynasty), travels westward in the daytime, and leaves Dongling in the flat moon.

Far away, thousands of people are swinging in the air.

When the wind enters the house, the pillow mat is cool at night.

When qi changes, it is easy to realize, but not to sleep.

Have nothing to say, wave a cup to persuade the lonely shadow. If the sun and the moon abandon people, they will be invincible.

It's sad to read this, but I can't be quiet in the end. This is the second of Tao Yuanming's twelve miscellaneous poems. The feelings of those poets who can't sleep at night express their feelings that they have achieved nothing in their careers. This poem first describes the replacement of the sun and the moon, foreshadows the magnificent scene of Wan Li, and the sentence of "stirring" lays a sad emotional tone for the whole poem. Then, the poet used the images of the evening breeze and the cold banquet to describe the changes of the four seasons that he was aware of because of the change of the weather, and set off his "cold heart" with "cold weather" to depict his "sleepless" sad mood. In the next two sentences, Tao Yuanming explained the reason of "sleepless" because there was no confidant who could talk and drink with him, thus lamenting that time passed by in a hurry, leaving an unrealized self. At the end of the poem, sadness is pushed to the extreme, and the thought of my bumpy life can only be sad, and it can't be calm until dawn. The whole poem is full of sighs about life. This is one of Tao Yuanming's many poems expressing frustration.