白居易
江南好，
风景旧曾谙。
日出江花红胜火，
春来江水绿如蓝。
能不忆江南。
"South River Land is a rare land, / As from of old I Know./ No flame for redness can compare / With river-blooms at daybreak there. / The waters in the spring tide glow/ Deep-green like indi go./ who can forget South River Land?"
spring is the most beautiful season of a year. The daybreak is the most charming monent of a day . Bai chose the daybreak of a Spring day to sketch scenery there, in the view of the poet, were the dark blue river and bright red flowers. Therefore, the poet chose the most beautiful season to show the most attractive part of the scenery in the most gorgeous place.
Rhet orically, he chose two metaphors to add more poetic flavours. In his verses. "no flame for redness can compare with river-blooms at daybreak" and "waters in the springtide glow deep-green like indigo". Such a beautiful scene was enjoyed by Bai while in south China, but now he could only recall it in a poem. So in the last line, he signed "Who can forget South River Land?"