Du Fu
The good rain knows the season, when spring is happening.
With the wind, it dives into the night, and moistens things silently.
The path is dark with clouds, but the riverboat is bright with fire.
Looking at the red wet place in the morning, the flowers are heavy in Jin Guan Cheng.
Poetry Explanation
The good rain knows that the rainy season, it is at the time of the plant sprouting and growing, it with the spring wind in the night quietly fall, quietly and silently moisturize all things on the earth. Rainy night in the wilderness black, only the lights on the river boat is particularly bright. After dawn, look at the flowers with rainwater, delicate and red, the whole Jin Guan City turned into a world of blooming flowers.
"Joyful Rain on a Spring Night" was written by Du Fu in the spring of the second year of the reign of Emperor Suzong (Li Hen) of the Tang Dynasty (761) while he was at the Cao Tang (grassy hall) on the banks of the Raccoon River in Chengdu.
Background and ideological content of "Joyful Rain on a Spring Night": this poem was written in the spring of the second year of Shangyuan (761). At this time Du Fu came to Sichuan and settled in Chengdu for two years because of the drought in Shaanxi. He personally farmed, planted vegetables and flowers, and interacted with farmers, thus he had a deep love for spring rain, and wrote this poem describing the beauty of rainfall on a spring night, moistening everything, and expressing the poet's feelings of joy.
The "Spring Night Rain" expresses the poet's love and praise for the selfless quality of the spring night rain. The poem reads: "Good rain knows the season, when spring is happening. The wind dives into the night, moistens things silently. The path is dark with clouds, but the fire on the riverboat is bright. When the river is wet, the flowers are heavy in Jin Guan Cheng." The word "good" in the first two sentences contains feelings and praises the spring rain. "Know the season" gives the spring rain with human life and emotion, in the author's view, spring rain considerate of people's intentions, know the season, in people's urgent need of time to come, prompting the occurrence of the machine. What a good spring rain! The first line of both the spring rain "happens", but also implicitly conveyed the author eagerly looking forward to the spring rains of the anxious mood. The jaw line is obviously the poet's auditory feelings. Spring rain is coming, in the vast night, with the wind, silent, moisturizing everything, no intention to please "good", only seeking dedication. Look, listen to the rain scene author of how meticulous, even the spring rain sprinkled, silent and silent also by the poet heard out. Visible, surprise in the spring rain, the poet sleepless nights. Neck joint immediately following the jaw, the poet only wish spring rain overnight, but also afraid of sudden abortions, but also happy and worried, push the door and out, stand and look into the distance, only to see the usual clear-cut paths in the fields also dissolved into the night, dark, see how dark the night, how dense the rain. And the riverboat fishing fire red and eye-catching, but also contrasted with the darkness of the spring night, but also from the side of the dense spring rain. The end of the link to the rhetoric of imagination, the poet witnessed the spring rain, pleased to think that the next day when the dawn, Jin Guan City will be a purple and red spring color. Flowers of red, full of vitality is the silent rain subtle, nourishing the results of baptism. Therefore, the writing of the flower is actually to highlight the selfless character of the spring rain.
Through the above analysis of the poem, it is not difficult to see, Du Fu is according to such an emotional line of thought to conceptualize the text, that is, looking forward to the rain - listening to the rain - watching the rain - thinking about the rain. As the saying goes, "spring rain is as expensive as oil", yes, for this precious spring rain, everyone is looking forward to, the poet is also. And when the spring rain came down, the poet is surprised, and even lie down to listen to the bed, sleepless nights, desperately hoping that it has been under the pain, lest it suddenly aborted, so light hands and feet, push the door far away, and quietly watch the boundless darkness of the boundless spring rain, to see the dense sprinkling of the spring rain, the author and the surprise of the next day, associated with the JinGuanCheng city of full of spring color. Poetry is intended to praise the spring rain in obscurity, selfless dedication of the noble quality, this love of the spring rain depicted so delicate and realistic, twisted and chiaroscuro, it can not help but marvel at the Du Fu hole in the subtle micro-photography, the body of the artistic ability to observe the feelings.
In addition, the capture and portrayal of poetic details can also reflect the poet's superiority in physical and emotional perception. "The wind dives into the night and moistens things silently." The word "submerged" is anthropomorphized, imitating the silent and shadowless state of spring rain, which is quite interesting and induces people's love for spring rain. The word "Run" conveys God, accurately and vividly written out of the spring rain nourishes everything, silent and silent characteristics, both pictorial form, but also the words of emotion, form and emotion are ready, deep and unique. "Flower heavy Jin Guan Cheng", with a "heavy" word, accurately written by the spring rain after a night of baptism and moisturizing Jin Guan Cheng flowers red, full of vitality of the situation, the author of the spring rain to the feelings of praise. "Wild path clouds are all black, the riverboat fire is only bright" is to seize the typical details, brushwork, subtle rendering of the spring rain misty, colorful atmosphere. In short, Du Fu's Spring Night Joyful Rain embodies his ability to understand things and to be sensitive and subtle, no matter in the aspect of refining words and phrases or in the aspect of capturing imagery and describing details. Combined with Du Fu's poetic style of melancholy and staccato to compare and contrast reading, we will certainly gain a deep understanding of Du poetry another life interest.