Bai Juyi worked extremely hard in writing poems. As he said: "Drunken madness also leads to poetry, and he chants sadly to the west at noon." Excessive reading and writing even caused sores on the mouth and tongue, and on the fingers. The point of becoming a callus. That’s why he is called the “Poetry Demon”.
Bai Juyi's poems are full of charm, elegant and popular, and even ordinary old ladies can understand them, and they are widely circulated. He wrote more than 3,000 poems in his life, "so that his mouth and tongue became sores and his elbows became calluses." Excessive reading and writing have resulted in sores on the mouth and tongue and calluses on the fingers. He wrote poems very hard, and later generations called him the "Poetry Demon". Extended information
"Pipa Song" and "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" are Bai Juyi's most successful works. The outstanding feature of their artistic expression is the strengthening of lyrical factors. Compared with previous narrative poems, although these two works also use narration and description to express events, they simplify the events beyond simplicity, using only one central event and two or three main characters to structure the entire poem, such as quite dramatic The Mawei Incident.
The author has gone through it in just a few strokes, but in terms of the most lyrical description of the character's psychology and the rendering of the environment, he splashes ink like rain, trying to do it to the fullest. Works that focus more on narration of character encounters also use emotions to closely connect sounds and events. Sounds rise with emotion, and emotions change with events, so that the process of the poem is always accompanied by moving emotional power.
In addition, the lyricism of these two works is also reflected in the use of selected images to create an appropriate atmosphere and enhance the artistic conception of the poem, or to combine the cold moonlight and the pattering night rain. , heart-breaking ringtones combine to create an ecstatic scene.
Or the rustling maple leaves, dill flowers and the vast river moon form a sad and lonely picture. The desolate, sentimental and melancholy mood revealed in it colors all the characters and events in the poem, and also makes readers Facing such artistic conception and atmosphere, my heart is shaken and I can't help myself.
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