Liu Yuxi was abandoned for 23 years, but he won the reputation of "great poet" in the starry Tang Dynasty poetry circle, and his relegation became a blessing for him. "Therefore, the will will be restored, and the treasure will be restored. Finally, it will be finalized and used. Why should we be ashamed? Sometimes I feel very dull and I am ambitious. " (Shi Fu) expressed his indomitable strength and ambition of waiting for the opportunity by praising the sharpened saber. "How affordable and straightforward, Lou Qing is still chilling. When will we ride home together, collect trees to help the poor and knock cymbals? " ("Long Sentences Reward Nine Servants to Give Wall Bamboo cymbals") By praising bamboo cymbals, he expressed his honest and upright personality and entrusted his urgent desire to return to Chang 'an. "If you are not frustrated in life, how can you expose yourself?" ("Learning Ruan Gong Ti" Part I) and "Not feeling depressed, but inspiring" ("Learning Ruan Gong Ti" Part II) are unyielding; "Qian Fan passed by the sinking boat, and Wan Muchun was in front of the sick tree" ("Enjoy Lotte's First Banquet in Yangzhou") and "Don't envy peaches and plums in the third spring, and osmanthus will come true in Xiang Qiu" ("Lotte sighed and let it die"); "Thousands of waves are difficult to travel, and the wild sand is blown away to reach gold" (the eighth of "Nine Poems of Langtaosha"), "Ma Si changed grass and fists, and wanted to sleep in Qingyun. The harmony and openness of heaven and earth that can be seen everywhere will help you recover from illness and climb to the high platform ("The First Smell of Autumn Wind"), all of which show a stirring power. In his life of relegation, the poet learned more about Qu Yuan's strong spirit of "independence from the Soviet Union", "horizontal but not flowing", "seeking up and down" and "nine deaths without regrets". Some of them are as persistent and persistent as Qu Yuan's beautiful ideal, abandoning Qu Yuan's loneliness of "everyone is drunk and I wake up alone". Some of them are awakening their self-awareness under the oppression of autocratic politics, strengthening their self-protection ability in the cruelty of history, and giving up their stubbornness of clinging to reality and struggling in violent emotional waves like Qu Yuan. Because of this, Liu Yuxi did not die for his country like Qu Yuan, but lived tenaciously and struggled, and his spiritual realm became broader.
Liu Yuxi's poems, whether short or long, are mostly simple, lively and handsome, with the wisdom of a philosopher and the sincere feelings of a poet, full of artistic tension and heroic momentum. Poems such as "The north wind mourns the old horse" ... can inspire people because of fatigue "(the second part of" Learning Ruan Gong's Three Poems ")," Ma Si changed grass and fists, carved a clear blue sky, and the world was clear, so that his illness recovered to a high platform "("The First Smell of Autumn Wind ") was written with high spirits and intense style. As for his seven-character quatrains, they are also unique, such as "Mo Dao's slanderers are as deep as waves, and Mo Yanke is as heavy as sand." Although the effort is hard, it still needs a lot of sand to nugget. "("Nine Poems of Langtaosha "(the eighth time)" Plum blossom strong flute play in Saibei, Guishushan poem in Huainan. Please don't play the old songs and listen to the new Yang Liuzhi. "Poetically, these two works are concise and easy to understand, but through one layer, we will realize a spirit of independence and pride in suffering, a feeling of transcending suffering to meet suffering, an indomitable vitality, an optimistic spirit of abandoning the past and facing the future, and a resolute and noble personality connotation. Another example is his famous "two cold words":
Since ancient times, I feel sad and lonely every autumn. I think autumn is more than spring. There is no one in the clear sky in Wan Li, and a crane, Ling Yunfei, has aroused my meditation on the blue sky.
The whole poem opposes the traditional view of sad autumn, praises autumn, endows autumn with a power to guide life, and shows the poet's infinite yearning for the realm of freedom, with a strong chest and strong bones.
Liu Yuxi is most famous for his poems about history and nostalgia. The language of these poems is concise and clear, and the images are accurate and novel. In the long-span space-time connected from ancient times to modern times, the sadness caused by the poet's suffering is slowly injected, which makes his works have a sense of vicissitudes and significance in observing history and life, and is unique in the poetry circles of the middle Tang Dynasty. Such as Old Times of Xibao Mountain, Jingzhou Road Nostalgia, Gusutai and other works, are calm and happy, vigorous and old. In particular, The Old Story of Xipao Taishan is his masterpiece, and this poem is full of practical significance. "Allegory criticism, no matter what it is, is written on paper, and the spirit is natural, and the method is meticulous" (Xue Xue's "A Ladle of Poems"), full of a sad and tireless, heavy and tenacious spirit, and a kind of weather that covers everything from ancient times to modern times, which makes people feel deeply.
Yuxi went straight on the right path, "worrying about the country and not making a living", but he was "down and out" for most of his life, unhappy, and naturally showed deep sadness and strong sense of loneliness and resentment. At the same time, instead of indulging in the quagmire of distress, he faced his troubled fate, overcame his worries and saved himself with indomitable spirit, open-minded and optimistic feelings, heroic and persevering temperament, detached and accommodating attitude and detached and adaptive mind, thus seeing more beauty in life, creating a new style of relegated poetry and forming his own unique style. The connotation of Liu Yuxi's poetic style is a spirit that originates from and transcends the reality of suffering. It embodies the poet's persistent pursuit of his own political ideal and tenacity of vitality, thus showing the tenacity of human nature under the heavy pressure of history.
In a word, at the lowest valley of life, Liu Yuxi's poems did not pretend to be sad and groan, nor were they depressed because of frustration. Some of them are deep-rooted sadness, haggard face, ecstasy, endless sadness and grief formed by great feelings about life, which confirms the life suffering of relegated poets, but Liu Yuxi shows the pride of a few poets.