The differences between Su Shi's and Xin Qiji's bold poems are as follows:
First, the two have different degrees of exploring the realm of their poems. Su Shi "uses poetry as words". Before Su Shi, most of his poems wrote about the joys and sorrows between men and women. Su Shi made his poems poetic, nostalgic, chanting history, reasoning, talking about biography, and even expressing homesickness and patriotism. Expands the artistic conception of the word. Xin Qiji "used words as words". While inheriting Su Shi's bold style of writing, he also enriched the content of his writing.
His Ci combines boldness with diverse contents, rich and deep emotions, and creatively integrates expression techniques of various literary styles such as poetry, prose, and scriptures, making Ci Ci become more popular after Su Shi. Opened up a new era.
2. Different views on lyrics. Su Shi "used his articles to do things, and overflowed into writing lyrics and music." Su Shi composed lyrics, prose, and poetry. Each style of writing has its merits, and represents the highest achievement of Northern Song Dynasty literature. Xin Qiji was different. He devoted all his efforts to writing lyrics and composed more than 600 lyrics in his life. He was the poet with the largest number of lyrics in the Tang and Song dynasties. His lyrics basically included his lifelong emotional experience. While expressing his personal feelings, he also objectively reflected history.
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The same bold style shows obvious differences in Dongpo Ci and Jiaxuan Ci. The bold style of Su Ci exudes freedom, optimism and cheerfulness. His free and unrestrained writing attitude and unpredictable chapter structure are closely intertwined, forming the artistic characteristics of Su Ci's bold romanticism.
The bold style of Xin's Ci is often full of the heroic and desolate, majestic and melancholy personality unique to Xin's Ci. The artistic conception he created is more majestic and vast than that of Su's Ci, which is in harmony with his vividness. The exaggerated description and imagination constitute the artistic characteristics of Xin Ci's bold and unrestrained romanticism.
Su Shi’s optimism about life and passionate pursuit of ideals make his words always lively and natural, turbulent, impassioned and sonorous. Xin Qiji's long-term suppression due to the hatred of the country and the nation made his poems both heroic, impassioned, and passionate, but also melancholy, melancholy, and desolate. The contradiction between political ideals and social reality, and the rejection and blow of the compromise-capitulation faction determined his His poems do not and cannot have the open and free style of Su Shi's poems.