Bai Juyi's Nanpu Bie

Bai Juyi

In the bleak drudgery of Nanpu, the autumn wind is bleak.

Turn back immediately, my heart is broken, so I can leave and don't look back.

Appreciation: Nanpu, the southern waterfront. The ancients often bid farewell to Nanpu, which became synonymous with Changting and other farewell places. Qu Yuan wrote a poem "Send Beauty to Nanpu" in Nine Songs, and Jiang Yan's Beppu also said "What's the harm in sending a gentleman to Nanpu?" The first two paragraphs of this poem explain the time and place of farewell to set off the scene. "Sorrow" plays up other feelings, and "curl" adds autumn. The former writes about inner sadness, while the latter writes about the bleak and desolate autumn scenery. Autumn wind rustling, leaves falling, the tighter the autumn wind, the stronger the meaning. At this time, this scene, how not to make people feel more sad.

The most vivid movement in the whole poem is the word "look". After breaking up, he left the man and got on the boat. But he looked back frequently, but what he saw was the countless acacia and all kinds of sadness revealed from this silent eyes, not to mention that every time he looked back, he was deeply grieved. The ambivalence of wanting to see and knowing that you are sad and have to see shows the parting and sincere affection of both sides incisively and vividly. The last sentence of the poem, "Let's go with peace of mind and don't look back", encourages us to imagine how the poet suppressed his feelings. I'm afraid the sadness in his heart is beyond measure.