赠别二首·其二
多情却似总无情
唯觉樽前笑不成
蜡烛有心还惜别
替人垂泪到天明
Deep passion seems like passionless coldness when we part,
Before the wine cup I can find no smile at heart.
The candle has a wick-heart and grieves our parting plight,
And sheds its tears for us until the morning light.
逐句注释
多情却似总无情
开篇用矛盾语：感情极深的人，在离别之际反而像是无情无感。‘多情’与‘无情’形成强烈对照，写出离别时因悲伤过深而显得木然、难以表达的心理状态。
The poem opens with a paradox: a person of deep feeling may appear utterly unfeeling at parting. The contrast between 'deep passion' and 'passionless' captures the numbness and emotional paralysis that overwhelming sorrow can produce.
唯觉樽前笑不成
‘樽’指酒杯。‘樽前’点出饯别饮酒的场景。诗人说在送别酒宴上只觉得笑不出来，以‘笑不成’反衬内心苦楚，语浅而情真。
'Zun' means a wine cup; 'before the cup' sets the scene of a farewell banquet. The poet can only feel that he cannot manage a smile, and this inability to laugh subtly reveals inner anguish.
蜡烛有心还惜别
运用拟人和双关。蜡烛的‘心’既指烛芯，又暗喻人的心；蜡烛仿佛也有情，懂得惜别。物尚如此，人何以堪，以物衬情，更显离别之痛。
This line uses personification and a pun. The candle's 'heart' is literally its wick, but it also suggests a human heart. The candle seems to feel sorrow at parting; if an object grieves so, human sorrow must be even deeper.
替人垂泪到天明
继续拟人化：蜡烛燃烧时滴落的烛泪，被写成替离人流泪到天亮。‘垂泪’既是烛泪，也是人泪，物我交融，把彻夜不寐、依依不舍的离情推向高潮。
The personification continues: wax dripping from the burning candle is imagined as tears shed on behalf of the parting couple until dawn. 'Tears' are both wax tears and human tears, blending object and feeling and heightening the sleepless, reluctant sorrow of farewell.
今日赏析
此诗是杜牧《赠别二首》中的第二首。唐大和九年（835），杜牧由淮南节度使掌书记升任监察御史，离开扬州赴长安，与扬州一位歌妓赠别。诗中不直写对方容貌，而集中写离别时难舍难分、强笑不得的深情，并以蜡烛垂泪作比，含蓄动人。
This is the second of Du Mu's two 'Parting Gifts.' In 835, Du Mu left Yangzhou for Chang'an after being promoted from secretary under the Huainan military governor to censor, and he wrote these poems for a singer he was leaving behind. Rather than describing her appearance, the poem focuses on the deep, wordless sorrow of parting, the inability to smile at the farewell banquet, and the personified candle weeping until dawn.
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