A Thousand Sorrows, the Beauty of Sentimentality in Acacia's Verses: a Touching and Heartfelt Account of Love
A Thousand Sorrows, the Beauty of Sentimentality in Acacia's Verses: a Touching and Heartfelt Account of Love
Throughout the endless years, love has always been so intoxicating and equally so sad. Poets with sincere feelings, depicted many touching love stories, including those endless pain of lovesickness. Here are some classic poems of sadness, let us feel the sadness of the beauty of lovesickness together.
"Flowers drift from the ground and water flows from the ground, a kind of lovesickness, two idle sorrows." (Tang - Li Qingzhao, "Ru Meng Ling - Often Remembering the Daybreak at the Stream Pavilion")
In this poem, the phrase "Flowers drift from the ground and water flows from the sea" symbolizes the inscrutability of fate and the impermanence of love. The two lines of "one kind of lovesickness, two idle sorrows" express the feelings of lovesickness to the fullest, which makes people feel sorry for those lovers who can't get together.
"Once the ocean was hard to turn into water, but Wushan is not a cloud." (Tang - Bai Juyi, "The Song of Long Hate - Autumn in the Han Palace")
This poem laments the parting of love with endless sorrow. What was once an endless love is now only an endless sorrow of being alone with a lone shadow, making one sigh endlessly.
"Acacia is an unqualified word, don't ask the flowers about the old days." (Song - Yanshu, "Butterfly Lovers' Flower - How Deep is the Courtyard")
The love for each other expressed in this poem is full of unspeakable helplessness. Those who were once in love are now only left with endless sorrow, making people sigh at the relentlessness of time.
"Ask the world what love is. It teaches one to live and die together." (Song Su Shi, "Jiang Cheng Zi - Hunting in Mizhou")
In a lamenting tone, this poem raises an eternal philosophical question: what is love? The love for each other, which is taught straight through life and death, is even more moving.
In these endless years, love is always so mesmerizing and equally so sad. And those classic sentimental poems have become the eternal mark of our lamentation of the immortality of love.
