On the Writing of Historical Poetry

Look for the culture in poetry and the poetry in culture by quoting history or confirming poetry through history: in fact, if you recall, literature not only shows us the magnificent buildings of the past in a short square inch, but also vividly reproduces the vivid and concrete details that people may forget in the past years, and also shapes a living crowd, a lasting charm of life and a wonderful scenery for us. Reading the poems of Du Fu, a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, we will see a picture in front of us: in the last years of Tianbao in Li Tang, the emperor was fatuous, the treacherous court official stood in the way, the military commander was overjoyed, and the wars to expand the territory again and again brought profound disasters to the people of the whole country. Reading Balzac's Human Comedy will remind us of the embarrassing life of the upper class in Paris, France at the end of 18. Reading Gu Cheng (the first generation), a hazy poet who stepped onto the literary world in the early 1980s, "The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light", I will also think of the younger generation who grew up during the Cultural Revolution, their commitment to suffering and their firm belief in trying to look for light in the dark. Poetry needs taste. Pushkin's short poem "If Life Deceives You": Everything is temporary and fleeting, and the past will become lovely. This is a short poem written by Pushkin in 1825 on a picture book of a girl aged 16. More than a century has passed, and the girl is no longer the original girl, and the years are no longer romantic, like Russia in the birch forest in the19th century. People who read this poem may have different experiences and different ages, but in any case, we will appreciate the gift of life, which makes us patient and tolerant.