Ode to Geese
Author: Luo Binwang
Goose goose, Xiang Tiange. White feather, floating in the green water; Red on the soles of the feet, Toggle the clear water.
The first sentence of the poem uses three words "Goose" in succession. This repeated singing method expresses the poet's love for Goose and enhances the emotional effect.
In the second sentence, the expression of geese chirping gives people a sense of hearing. The voice of the goose is loud and clear, and the word "qu" makes the image of the goose craning its neck and bending its head to the sky very vivid. This sentence writes what you see first, then what you hear, which is very hierarchical.
The above is about geese marching on land, and the following two sentences are about geese swimming leisurely in the water. The little poet used a set of antithetical sentences to describe the situation of geese swimming in the water from the color aspect. The goose's hair is white, but the river is green. The contrast between "white" and "green" is bright and dazzling, which is a right sentence; Similarly, the goose's web is red, while the water wave is blue, and the "red" and "green" are very gorgeous, which is also true. In the two sentences, "white" and "red" are relative, and "green" and "green" are relative, which is a pair of up and down. In this way, going back and forth is an antithesis, and its wonders are endless.
In this pair of sentences, the use of verbs is also just right. The word "floating" means that the goose is carefree and motionless in the water. The word "dial" means that the goose paddles hard in the water, causing waves. In this way, dynamic and static are born together, writing a kind of beauty of change.
Luo binwang (about 640~? ), a native of Yiwu, Wuzhou (now Zhejiang Province), was a writer in the Tang Dynasty. Together with Wang Bo, Yang Jiong and Lu Zhaolin, they were called "four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty". At the age of seven, he was known as a "magical power" because of his poem "Ode to Goose". He once served as Xiancheng in Linhai, and then Xu Jingye rose up against Wu Zetian. After the defeat, his whereabouts were unknown, or he was killed by the rebels or fled into an empty net. His poems are full of momentum, free and easy, full of a fresh and elegant atmosphere, and good in style, including Luo Linhai Collection.