Bright moonlight sprinkled on the windowpane in front of the bed, as if a layer of frost on the ground. I couldn't help but raise my head to look at the bright moon in the sky outside the window that day, and couldn't help but bow my head in contemplation, remembering my faraway hometown.

"Silent Night Thoughts" is an ancient poem in five lines made by Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The poem describes the poet's feelings when he looks up at the moon in his house on an autumn night. It was written on the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the old lunar calendar in 726 A.D. (the fourteenth year of Emperor Xuanzong Kaiyuan's reign). Li Bai was 26 years old at the time, and the place of writing was in the hostel of Yangzhou at that time. The poem "Autumn Evening Traveler's Reminiscences" is a sequel to "Silent Night Thoughts" and was written at the same time and in the same place.

The poem is as follows:

The light of the moon in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground.

Lifting my head to look at the bright moon, and lowering my head to think of my hometown.

The commentary is as follows:

Quiet Night Thoughts: Thoughts arising in the quiet of the night .

Doubt: as if.? Raise your head: look up.

Expanded Information:

The first two lines are about the illusion that the poet has for a moment in the specific environment of being a guest in his hometown. The first two lines are about a moment's illusion in the specific circumstances of the guest's home country. A guest in his home country will have such a feeling: during the daytime, busy, but also can wash away the sadness, to the depth of the night, homesickness, it is inevitable that a burst of emotions in the heart of the ripples. In the moonlit night, especially the frosty autumn night is even more so.

"Doubt is the frost on the ground" in the word "doubt", a vivid expression of the poet woke up from sleep, disoriented in a trance will be irradiated in front of the bed of the cold moonlight mistakenly laid on the ground as a thick frost. The word "frost" is even better, not only describes the brightness of the moonlight, but also expresses the coldness of the season, but also highlights the poet's loneliness and desolation in his homeland.

The last two lines deepen the feeling of homesickness through the portrayal of movement and demeanor. The word "look" mirrors the word "doubt" in the previous sentence, indicating that the poet has changed from haze to wakefulness, and he gazed at the moon with his head cocked, and couldn't help but remember that his hometown was also under the illumination of the bright moon, which naturally led to the concluding line "thinking of my hometown". The first thing you need to do is to look at the moon and remember that his hometown is also under the light of this bright moon.

The action of "bowing his head" depicts that the poet is completely in deep thought. The word "think" leaves the reader with a wealth of imagination: the hometown of the father and mother, brothers, friends and relatives, the hometown of the mountains, water, grass and trees, the lost years and past events, are all in thought. The word "think" is too rich in content.

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