《游園不值》是宋代詩人葉紹翁的名篇,這首小詩寫詩人春日游園所見所感。此詩先寫詩人游園看花而進不了園門,感情上是從有所期待到失望遺憾;后看到一枝紅杏伸出墻外,進而領略到園中的盎然春意,感情又由失望到意外之驚喜,寫得十分曲折而有層次。尤其第三、四兩句,既渲染了濃郁的春色,又揭示了深刻的哲理。全詩寫得十分形象而又富有理趣,體現了取景小而含意深的特點,情景交融,膾炙人口。
《游園不值》 葉紹翁
應憐屐齒印蒼苔,小扣柴扉久不開。
春色滿園關不住,一枝紅杏出墻來。
On Visiting a Garden, When Its Master Is Absent
Ye Shaoweng
It is proper to hate the marks of shoes on the green moss;
Of ten that knock at his brushwood gate, nine cannot have it opened.
Spring's colours fill the garden but cannot all be contained,
For one spray of red almound-blossom peeps out from the wall.