Chapter 13 Chapter 12 Protest Poetry
Hangzhou is not full of lotus and peonies.Su Dongpo could not talk, laugh, sing, perform stand-up comedy all day long, and go boating on the lake at moonlit nights, because there were seventeen thousand debtors and illegal salt prisoners waiting to be sentenced in prison, there were locust plagues to be cured, waterways to be dredged, and famines to come To investigate.It is difficult to find a fixed theme for the hundreds of poems he wrote during this period.He wrote comedies and satires, witty landscapes, lyrics, laughter, and not a few tears.In his noisy, cheerful, and laughing appearance at the banquet, there is a spirit of restlessness, depression, sadness, and even fear.No one can express the sufferings of the people more fully than Su Dongpo. His talent enables him to turn everything that other writers want to express into poetry and beautiful words more fully and completely.But Su Dongpo left the capital and came here with pain in his heart.He secretly fears and mourns the direction of political development, and his pain is deeper than others.He has described it as follows:
A poem he wrote to Qiao Taibo in Mizhou summarizes his general views in Hangzhou and Mizhou during the productive period between the fourth year of Xining (1071) and the ninth year of Xining (1076):
Another poem addressed to Kong Wenzhong expresses his contempt for official events:
Along with his laughing psalms we hear cries and sighs.We heard the groans of the prisoners interspersed with the chirping of birds, and the wailing of the old peasant woman interspersed with the cooing of waterwheels.The wedding banquet on the lake also contained his thinning and graying complaints.
Su Tungpo was unpredictable.He is used to starting his poems in the most natural, simple and unrefined way. He will quote one or two ancient allusions, and then no one will know what follows, let alone himself.Sometimes he would write incoherent but brilliantly odd prose, unplanned poems in which a momentary impression would be followed by a bit of acrid, ironic, or cynical thought.His poems and essays are excellent, "like clouds and flowing water, always do what you should do, always stop when you can't stop".It can also be said that his writing style belongs to a line that cannot be owned by himself.At that time, the critics who hated freedom the most in the court, it is no wonder that this style of writing made him get into trouble.
Su Dongpo didn't know what to write in the next sentence, and he didn't care.He is so talented that he often writes four or five poems with the same title and rhyme in a row.There is a poem that begins with an atmosphere of imminent snowfall.The first few sentences are as follows:
The friend who received the letter reciprocated with a poem, and he wrote a second poem, which began as follows:
Friends reunited, and he wrote a third song, the first few lines are: