李白：静夜思 Li Bai: Night Thoughts

李白 (701 – 762) 提倡恢复传统作为复兴诗词的依据。他的诗清新而风格独特，世世代代为人们所传颂。

让我们读以下这首诗：

床前明月光，

疑似地下霜；

举头望明月，

低头思故乡。

诗人李白远离家乡，一个月圆之夜，在奇异的旅馆里，他躺在床上，月亮从窗口照到地上，令他想起了他的故乡，因而写了这首著名的诗。它简短、易读、易记。它也轻易地使读者和他一样进入相同的思乡之情。

这首名为‘夜静思’的诗用简单的语言来表达思乡之情。李白就提倡这类的诗。他反对用华丽的词藻，和提倡恢复传统诗词的陈子昂的想法是一致的。

‘夜静思’画出一个想家而半夜起床的人。所用的语言简单，而思乡之情深刻。李白能够写出这样的诗，固然是因为他有写诗的天才，加上他能从民间文学，尤其是民间歌曲的语言中索取材料。
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Li Bai (701 – 762) advocated the revival of tradition in poetry as the basis of reforming poetry. His poems are refreshing and unique in style. They've been read by generations of people.

Let’s read the following poem:

The white moonlight in front of my bed;

I wonder if that can be frost on the ground.

I look up to see the moon.

I lower my head to think of my hometown.
Poet, Li Bai left his home far away to a strange hotel during a full moon night; he lay on the bed, the moon light flooded down on the floor through the window, that rose his thinking about his own home town village, so he wrote this famous poem. It is very short, easy to be read and remembered. It is so easy to bring reader to fall into the same thought about him village.

This poem, entitled "Night Thoughts," uses very simple language to describe homesickness. It's exactly this kind of poem Li Po advocated. He was opposed to using elaborate language when writing poems, and was in favour of the views of another poet, Chen Zi Ang, who advocated the revival of tradition in poetry.

‘Night Thoughts’ pictures a man thinking of his home town and waking up at night. The language is simple yet the feeling of homesickness is profound. Li Po was able to come up with poems like this because he not only had a gift for poetry but also borrowed ideas from folk literature, especially a language used in folk songs.