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GRASSES
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GRASSES
 ---Bai Juyi


Boundless grasses over the plain
Come and go with every season;
Wildfire never quite consumes them --
They are tall once more in the spring wind.
Sweet they press on the old high- road
And reach the crumbling city-gate....
O Prince of Friends, you are gone again....
I hear them sighing after you.


五言律诗   赋得古原草送别
---白居易

离离原上草, 一岁一枯荣。
野火烧不尽, 春风吹又生。
远芳侵古道, 晴翠接荒城。
又送王孙去, 萋萋满别情。

【注解】:
离离:历历,分明的样子。
远芳:伸展到远处的草。
萋萋:茂盛的样子。

【韵译】:
古原上的野草乱生乱长,
每年春来茂盛秋来枯黄。
任凭野火焚烧不尽不灭,
春风一吹依旧蓬勃生长。
远处芳草掩没古老驿道,
延至荒城一片翠绿清朗。
春绿草长又送游子远去,
萋萋乱草可比满腹离伤。

【评析】:
这是咏物诗,也可作为寓言诗看。有人认为是讥刺小人的。从全诗看,原上草虽
有所指,但喻意并无确定。“野火烧不尽,春风吹又生,”却作为一种“韧劲”而有
口皆碑,成为传之千古的绝唱。
 

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