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A SONG OF WHITE SNOW IN FAREWELL TO FIELD-CLERK WU GOING HOME
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A SONG OF WHITE SNOW IN FAREWELL  TO FIELD-CLERK WU GOING HOME
---Cen Can


The north wind rolls the white grasses and breaks them;
And the Eighth-month snow across the Tartar sky
Is like a spring gale, come up in the night,
Blowing open the petals of ten thousand peartrees.
It enters the pearl blinds, it wets the silk curtains;
A fur coat feels cold, a cotton mat flimsy;
Bows become rigid, can hardly be drawn
And the metal of armour congeals on the men;
The sand-sea deepens with fathomless ice,
And darkness masses its endless clouds;
But we drink to our guest bound home from camp,
And play him barbarian lutes, guitars, harps;
Till at dusk, when the drifts are crushing our tents
And our frozen red flags cannot flutter in the wind,
We watch him through Wheel-Tower Gate going eastward.
Into the snow-mounds of Heaven-Peak Road....
And then he disappears at the turn of the pass,
Leaving behind him only hoof-prints.

七言古诗   白雪歌送武判官归京
---岑参

北风卷地白草折, 胡天八月即飞雪;
忽如一夜春风来, 千树万树梨花开。
散入珠帘湿罗幕, 狐裘不暖锦衾薄。
将军角弓不得控, 都护铁衣冷犹著。
瀚海阑干百丈冰, 愁云黪淡万里凝。
中军置酒饮归客, 胡琴琵琶与羌笛。
纷纷暮雪下辕门, 风掣红旗冻不翻。
轮台东门送君去, 去时雪满天山路;
山回路转不见君, 雪上空留马行处。
 

[注释]
①判官:节度使下面资佐理的官吏。
②胡天:指西域的天气。
③孤裘(qiú):狐皮袍子。锦衾(qīn):锦缎做的被子。
④角弓:用兽角装饰的硬弓。不得控:天太冷而冻得拉不开弓。都护:镇守边镇的长官此为泛指,与上文的“将军”是互文。着:穿。
⑤瀚海:大沙漠。阑干:纵横的样子。
⑥中军:这里指主帅的营帐。
⑦辕门:营门。掣(chè):牵引。冻不翻:是说下雪后红旗冻住了,北风吹来,也不能飘动了。

[赏析]
这首诗抒写塞外送别、客中送客之情,但并不令人感到伤感,充满奇思异想,浪漫的理想和壮逸的情怀使人觉得塞外风雪变成了可玩味欣赏的对象。“忽如一夜春风来,千树万树梨花开”这壮美的画面,使人宛如回到了南方,见到了梨花盛开的繁荣壮丽之景。心中的喜悦可想而知。“纷纷暮雪下辕门,风掣红旗冻不翻”,帐外那以白雪为背景的鲜红一点,更与雪景相映成趣。那是冷色调的画面上的一点暖色,一股温情,也使画面更加灵动。全诗内涵丰富,意境鲜明独特,具有极强的艺术感染力。

岑参
(约715~770),原籍南阳,移居江陵(今湖北荆沙)。天宝三年进士及第,授右内率府兵曹参军。其诗以边塞诗著称,写边塞风光及将士生活,雄健奔放,想象奇特,色彩瑰丽,尤长于七言古诗。
 

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