Poetry Appreciation: Songs for the Four Seasons of the Midnight? Winter Song

This is the first of the seventeen winter songs in the Southern Dynasty's musical folk song "Songs for the Four Seasons of the Son and the Night", which sings about winter in the tune of "Songs for the Four Seasons of the Son and the Night".

II. Poetry

The abyssal ice is three feet thick,

and the vegetal snow covers a thousand miles.

My heart is like a pine and cypress,

how can your love be similar?

Third, the translation

The water in the deep pool was three feet thick with ice, and the silver-white snow covered a thousand miles. My heart is as hardy as a pine and cypress, so what is your heart like?

Fourth, the imagery

Ice and cypress

Jiangnan's climate will not appear three feet thick ice and a thousand miles of snow, so here is the use of hyperbole. Such ice and snow are extremely cold, so it is clear that the pines and cypresses are strong and unyielding in such cold conditions. "My heart is like a pine and cypress", it is through the pine and cypress standing proudly in the snow to compare the steadfast woman, even if there are more frost, rain and snow, I will not be afraid, and I will stick to it.

Fifth, the image of women

This poem embodies a woman who has the pain of separation, but not the grief of separation, but a woman who has a firm confession of love. This woman's belief in love is as firm and unshakable as the pine and cypress, but implies doubts about the man's attitude toward love, "What is your attitude like? Is your attitude the same as mine? The author's emotional attitude is implied here, i.e., the sympathy for the woman's steadfast love which is not necessarily responded by the same steadfastness, and the reproach for the man's situation. What's more, the woman's unswerving love and at the same time reveals her hidden worry about the man's change of affection, reflecting the real, full, concrete and not false, one-sided and one-dimensional image of the woman portrayed in the folk songs of the Southern Dynasties.