《再游玄都观》是唐代文学家刘禹锡创作的一首七言绝句。这首诗重提旧事,向打击作者的权贵挑战,表示决不因为屡遭报复就屈服妥协。前两句写出玄都观经过繁盛以后的荒凉景色,后两句由花事之变迁,关合到诗人自己之升沉进退。全诗用比拟的方法,对当时的人物和事件加以讽刺,表现了诗人不屈不挠的坚强意志。
再游玄都观
刘禹锡
百亩庭中半是苔[1],
桃花净尽菜花开。
种桃道士[2]归何处,
前度[3]刘郎今又来。
注释:
[1] 苔:青苔。
[2] 种桃道士:比喻昔日竭力打击革新派的执政者。
[3] 前度:前次。
The Taoist Temple Revisited
Liu Yuxi
In half of the wide courtyard only mosses grow;
Peach blossoms all fallen, only rape-flowers blow.
Where is the Taoist planting peach trees in this place?
I come after I fell again into disgrace.
In 829 the poet came again to the Taoist temple after his second banishment in 815.