Li Sao was written by Qu Yuan, a poet in the Warring States Period, with 373 sentences and 2888 words. High school textbooks only extract 52 sentences, which is also to reduce the difficulty of this poem, so as to increase students' mastery of this poem.
Li Sao focuses on the poet's life experience, experience and mental journey. The whole poem uses the metaphor of beauty and vanilla, a large number of myths and legends and rich imagination, forming a gorgeous literary talent and magnificent structure, showing a positive romantic spirit.
Lisao belongs to Chu Ci, which is still difficult to read compared with catchy poems in Tang and Song Dynasties. The article is also full of new words and difficult words.
Li Sao is difficult to recite, because there are many strange images, all of which are concrete. The phrase "mushrooms with mixed peppers are precious, but you can't just stick to your husband" is everywhere. There is a great sense of distance between words and people, and I often don't know what the next sentence is after reciting the last sentence.
Appreciation of Li Sao
As a masterpiece, Li Sao is extremely rich in ideological content, which can be summarized into two aspects. One is to describe the contradiction between poets and dynasty rulers, that is, the opposition between ideal and reality; The second is to describe the pain and entanglement of the poet's mind, the contradiction between enterprising and retiring.
The theme of the whole poem, that is, by describing the poet's life struggling for lofty ideals, strongly expresses his anguish and contradictory feelings of being killed, his spirit of dedication to the country, his deep patriotism and sympathy for the people, and his indomitable struggle spirit of bravely pursuing truth and light and upholding justice and ideals; At the same time, it profoundly exposed the decadent and dark nature of the noble group of Chu headed by Chu Jun, and criticized their crimes of reversing right and wrong, running a private party, harming talents and doing evil for the country.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Lisao