Evaluation of Bai Juyi's poetic style: satirical poems Bai Juyi himself thinks that satirical poems are his proudest and most artistic value. Bai Juyi's satirical poems strongly promoted the development of China's narrative poems, so we should know more about his satirical poems.
1. The main content of Bai Juyi's satirical poems
There are two kinds of satirical poems by Bai Juyi. First, it reflects the sufferings of the people and hopes to spread them to the court; The second is to expose the ugliness of corrupt officials and look forward to rectifying official management.
Bai Juyi's satirical poems mainly focus on "New Yuefu" (50 poems) and "Qin Zhongyin" (10 poems), which mainly reflect the major problems in all aspects of society in the middle Tang Dynasty, focusing on describing social injustice and people's sufferings. For example, the Charcoal Man we studied is about the extortion of eunuchs and the suffering brought by the court market to the people.
These poems reflect social reality, attack unreasonable phenomena, and use sharp words, breaking through the fixed pattern of beautiful and euphemistic poems.
2. The artistic features of Bai Juyi's satirical poems
① Typical materials and distinctive themes.
Bai Juyi's satirical poems generally only choose the most typical things and revolve around a theme. For example, "Selling Charcoal Weng" is expressed by an old man selling charcoal. Kumiya city also? This theme.
(2) A more direct narrative.
Bai Juyi's satirical poems depict characters through complete and tortuous plots and vivid and meticulous descriptions, and express his feelings and political opinions in narrative descriptions.
(3) Combination of narration and discussion.
Bai Juyi's satirical poems often make comments at the end, making tendentious comments on what he wrote, reflecting a clear theme.
④ Good at grasping the characteristics of characters.
Bai Juyi's satirical poems capture the characteristics of characters and outline vivid characters in a few words. For example, in "Selling Charcoal Weng", only use? Face covered with dust and fireworks, grey sideburns and black fingers? In a word, an image of a weather-beaten, hungry, tired and hard-working old man will pop up.
⑤ Use contrast technology.
Bai Juyi's satirical poems often use sharp contrast to achieve shocking special effects. For example, the arrogance of maids in The Charcoal Man contrasts with the loneliness and misery of the Charcoal Man. It immediately filled people with sympathy for the elderly and resentment against the court envoys.
Evaluation of Bai Juyi's poetic style: most of Bai Juyi's leisurely poems express his desire to live in seclusion and be honest, and reflect his dissatisfaction with the real society from the side. His pursuit of leisure is only helpless self-liberation. There are also some excellent works describing natural scenery and rural scenery in leisure poems, which are simple and fresh.
Evaluation of Bai Juyi's poetic style: sentimental poems Bai Juyi's sentimental poems are written with temporary feelings, but often have deep sustenance. The famous narrative poems "Song of Eternal Sorrow" and "Pipa Travel" belong to sentimental poems. These two long poems are laid out in vivid language, rendering the tragic feelings of the characters, and their beautiful rhythm and tone make them achieve high artistic achievements. There are many sentimental poems written for relatives and friends, mostly lamenting people's birth and death, which are sincere and touching.
Evaluation of Bai Juyi's poetic style: Miscellaneous Poems Bai Juyi's miscellaneous poems have the largest number and the most complicated content. Among them, lyric poems describing scenery such as Farewell to Ancient Grass, Spring Tour in Qiantang and Ode to Mujiang have always been in my mouth.
Who is Bai Juyi? New Yuefu Movement? His poems are characterized by popularization and popularization. His poems are easy to understand but profound, natural and fluent, and his words are easy to understand. He seldom uses allusions and obscure words, especially likes to refine folk proverbs into poems. Used in his poems? Three, three, seven? Sentence patterns are also from folk songs. It is precisely because Bai Juyi's poems are realistic, profound in thought, simple in style and popular in language that even some illiterate old people and children can understand them, and Bai Juyi's poems will be widely read in society.
Bai Juyi not only left 3,000 poems in his life, but also put forward a set of poetry theories. He thinks? Articles are written in time, and poems and songs are written in things? Emotion is the content of poetry, harmony is the expression of poetry, and righteousness is the social effect of poetry. He also believes that poetry creation can not be divorced from reality, must come from life, must reflect the times, reflect social conditions, and must dare to criticize social reality. These theories have a great influence on later generations, and they can be felt even now.
Bai Juyi's poems have a great influence on later generations. Many famous poets in later generations have been influenced by Bai Juyi's poetic style, even the classical operas and novels of later generations.