此诗描写一位技艺高超的琴师弹琴的过程。

诗人借此表现自己不与世俗社会同流合污的孤高性格。

全诗分为三部分。

前四句为第一段。

写弹琴的环境是流泉深邃的幽涧。

琴无装饰，放置白石，琴弦的调子调得很高。

这一切都表现出与众不同孤高。

中八句用具体形象描写弹出的曲调。

“心寂历似千古”是琴师弹琴时的心绪，给琴音定下了主调：情似太古，不同凡响。

接着用四种具体事物表现琴音的孤高：像大片松林被风吹拂，发出一片飕飗之声；似孤单的哀猿处危岩高木而长吟；像哀时失职的迁客泪流粘襟；像小溪流水叮咚成音。

“缉商缀羽”是弹琴全过程的指法，与“心寂历似千古”相呼应。

末四句是琴师对自己琴曲的主观评价：自己抒发的感情自有独特妙趣，众人颇难解其中从古到今的少有的情感。

“幽涧泉，鸣深林”指出琴曲的主旋律。

李白 幽涧泉　拂彼白石，弹吾素琴。

幽涧愀兮流泉深，善手明徽高张清。

心寂历似千古，松飕飗兮万寻。

中见愁猿吊影而危处兮，呌秋木而长吟。

客有哀时失职而听者，泪淋浪以沾襟。

乃缉商缀羽，潺湲成音。

吾但写声发情于妙指，殊不知此曲之古今。

幽涧泉，鸣深林。

Secluded Gorge SpringLi BaiLet me wipe that slab of white stoneWith the sleeve folds of my loose flowing gown;I'm to pluck my heptachord plainBy the side of a fresh spring bubbling deep downIn this secluded gorge 'tween mountains twain.

Fair-toned plucking of fingers deft and apt,Well directed by my lucid mind and vacant;Solitary as if lasting a thousand years long,Like the subdued roarings of a sea of pine foliageSix score furlongs thick to form a dense throng,Midst which to be seen the gibbons sadly shriekingSelf-pityingly, jumping about and clamberingAlong precariously atop autumnal trees.

There is one forlorn of hope and bewailingThe times, hearing woe-begone cries such as these,Who doth flush tears his lapels to drench through.

Thereupon I summon tuneful notes in a gentle flow,Toning at my finger tips with feelings the melody,Knowing not, albeit, the sonata thus performed by meBe ancient or modern.

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