Just like your tenderness, a river of spring water flows eastward... What does that mean?

The phrase "How many sorrows can you have, just like a river of spring water flowing eastward" is almost the essence of Li Yu's life's work. This line uses water as a metaphor for sadness, implicitly linking the continuous flow of sadness and endlessness with the gushing water, which is not only rich in sadness but also in atmosphere, and makes people involuntarily fall into this gushing out melancholy. While Liu Yuxi's "The infinite flow of water is like my sorrows" is a bit too blunt, Qin Guan's "The spring river is a river of tears, and the flow of water is inexhaustible and full of sorrows" is too much and weakens the power of the poem. Although Li Yu only shows the external form of his endless sorrow in this sentence - "It is like a river of spring water flowing eastward", the reader gets a spiritual echo from it, and people's sorrows certainly have different connotations, but they can all use this sentence to express their own similar emotions. Who doesn't feel that when they are sad, their sorrow is like a huge wave coming over them, irresistible? Li Yu's questioning at the end of the poem, through the poignant tone and the artistic structure of twists and turns and free flow, makes the author's sorrowful thoughts run through the whole thing, forming a refreshingly beautiful effect, so it is no wonder that this word can produce ****sound in a wide range and be recited through the ages.

For Li Yu, as a politician, he is a complete failure, but as a writer, he has been admired by the future generations, as the evaluation of the later generation: "The country is unfortunate, the poet is fortunate, the words to the vicissitudes of the language began to work". What I think about Li Yu is the relationship between politics and literature. Li Yu's lyrics never had the political concept of worrying about the country and the people. He only cared about the beauty of the lyrics themselves, and he would never break the rhyme of the lyrics in order to speak strongly about the national affairs (this is also one of the reasons why I don't like Xin's lyrics), so his lyrics were all beautiful and artistic masterpieces. This idea is "art for art's sake", which should be the highest concept of an artist. Why must literature "carry the Tao"? The history of art is much earlier than that of politics, and human beings have already known how to express their emotions through dance when they were still in a hazy state. To say that art has appeared in the service of politics is sheer sophistry. The role of art should be to express the most sincere emotion in human heart rather than to show the politics which represents the ugliness of human nature. If we want to add a heavy theme to art, this "art" is no longer art, but an ugly tool. If Li Yu's words are full of sadness about the pain of his country's demise or about his inability to compete with the rest of the world, then Li Yu in the history of modern art is just a third-rate patriotic lyricist.