Appreciation of Five Poems of Willow Branches

Li Shangyin wrote many love poems in his life, but most of them are profound and obscure, which makes it difficult to verify his skill, or even his understanding of love. There are only five poems, Willow Branches, which describe and describe a beautiful love tragedy in detail through the preface and a group of poems. Now let's enjoy the five poems by Liu Zhi, appreciate their beautiful love stories and feel the sincere and warm love atmosphere between the protagonists.

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Although this poem is about different kinds of bees and butterflies, in order, Herry Liu is the daughter of a businessman and Li Shangyin is an official. How can they fall in love after their status is too different? So this poem uses different kinds of bees and butterflies to compare the helplessness of the author and Liu Zhi.

02.

Although this poem is about different kinds of bees and butterflies, in order, Herry Liu is the daughter of a businessman and Li Shangyin is an official. How can they fall in love after their status is too different? So this poem uses different kinds of bees and butterflies to compare the helplessness of the author and Liu Zhi.

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The first two sentences use jasper melon as a metaphor for willow branches, indicating deep affection and beauty; Dongling is a metaphor for the Hou of Dongling, and the poet can't bear to taste it, which reflects the poet's pity for his lover and the fact that the Hou of Dongling doesn't love willow branches.

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Inoue is the place where peaches and plums live, and willow branches are entrenched on it, indicating that willow branches are not in place; "Lotus leaf in the middle" is a metaphor for your own haggard. The last two sentences further compare themselves and willow branches to "brocade scales" and "embroidered feathers", which have suffered great trauma and destruction.

05.

Everything is in pairs. Why are you and Liu Zhi inseparable to express the poet's sadness?

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On the surface, this set of love poems does not involve human love, but selects animal and plant images such as "flower house", "honey spleen", "clove", "melon", "willow branch", "lotus leaf" and "Yuanyang". In fact, the author uses metaphor to express himself through a series of figurative symbols.

At the same time, these five poems also constitute a whole, describing the poet's mental journey: the helplessness of two lovers who can no longer be together-the resentment that the lover was taken away by evil forces-the pity for the unloved lover-the lover married a inhuman person, and he also followed the pain-the sadness that he and his lover were alone but could not be together, both in time and logical order, but finally returned to the original state of mind.

Appendix: "Birds and Fish" in Li Shangyin's Love Poems