黄鹤楼送孟浩然之广陵-Seeing Off Meng Haoran at Tower of Yell

Huáng Hè Lóu Sòng Mèng Hàorán Zhī Guǎng Líng

          黄鹤楼送孟浩然之广陵

                                  lǐ bái（tánɡ）

                                  李 白    (唐)

Gù   rén    xī     cí    huáng hè    lóu

故     人     西     辞     黄     鹤     楼，

yān  huā  sān   yuè   xià  yáng zhōu

烟     花     三     月     下     扬     州。

Gū   fān  yuǎn  yǐng   bì    kōng  jìn

孤     帆     远     影     碧     空     尽，

wéi  jiàn cháng jiāng  tiān    jì     liú

唯     见     长     江     天     际     流。

 

Seeing Off Meng Haoran at Tower of Yellow Crane

Li Bai(Tang)

From Tower of Yellow Crane my friend is going away to,
Yangzhou in the month of glowing blooms and dimmig willows.
The distant shadow of a lonely sail now melts into the blue,
And I can see yonder only a mighty river idly flows.

 

 

shīwén jiànshǎnɡ

诗文鉴赏：

zhèshì yìshǒu qínɡjǐnɡjiāorónɡ de sònɡbié shī yānhuā mímàn chūnyìrónɡrónɡ
这是一首情景交融的送别诗。烟花迷漫，春意融融，

shīrén zài huánɡhèlóu sònɡ lǎopénɡyǒu qù jiānɡnán yánɡzhōu
诗人在黄鹤楼送老朋友去江南扬州，

hěn zìrándì huì liánxiǎnɡ dào xiānrén chénɡzhe huánɡhè fēitiān érqù de chuánshuō
很自然地会联想到仙人乘着黄鹤飞天而去的传说。

 

Comment:

This is an emotional and graphic picture of seeing a friend off Standing on the Tower of Yellow Crane amid the spring willow downs, the poet sees his friend off to Yangzhou and naturally thinks of the old legend in which the divine being flew away on the crane which lends a touch of consolation to the sad farewell. The first two lines give the time place people in regard to the send-off conveying the poet's best wishes for his friend, and have all along been regarded as the most beautiful eternal lines in Chinese literature treasure-house. The next two lines portray the flowing water and the sailing boat. As the vessel is going down the River and vanishing into the blue waters the poet's feelings are raising high in his heart like the rolling waves and the boundless expanses of sky and land. These two unique lines dialectically combine the visible material and the invisible spirit, striking the reader as profoundly philosophical. Richly textured the poem is indeed thought-provoking and compelling.