The Literary Value of Li Sao

Li Sao is Qu Yuan's masterpiece and a magnificent political lyric poem. He has high attainments and unique style in art, and his artistic characteristics and achievements mainly include the following aspects:

(A) to create a distinctive personality of literary creation

Before the appearance of Chu Ci, China's poems were basically written by groups. Generally speaking, their contents are relatively simple and their sentences are similar.

The space is also relatively short, especially because it is created by the masses, so there is still a lack of works that fully reflect the poet's character. He Qifang in "Qu"

The original work and its works have commented:? There are also many beautiful and moving works in The Book of Songs. It can't be said that those works don't shine with the author's personality, but people like Qu Yuan who branded his ideals, experiences, pains, enthusiasm and even his life on his works didn't. ? After Qu Yuan appeared, he appeared in the history of China literature.

The names of great poets have been given, and poems reflecting all the thoughts, feelings and personalities of poets have appeared. Qu Yuan's Sculpture of Lisao

Created a pure and tall lyric hero image, through this personalized poem, we saw a solemn and great poet image full of patriotic passion, lofty political ideal and sober personality.

(B) Romantic creative style

Li Sao is a positive and romantic work. It absorbed and developed ancient myths created orally by the ancients.

Positive romantic spirit. Romanticism, as a creative method, does not describe reality truthfully, but shows the author's passion, strong pursuit of ideals and rebellious spirit against reality stimulated by social reality. Qu Yuan's masterpiece Li Sao has such remarkable characteristics. The first half of Li Sao,

The focus is on the poet's description of his own experiences and encounters, but the expression of wet is not completely written, but self-generated

Life experiences and feelings sublimate into irreconcilable struggles between good and evil, beauty and ugliness, light and darkness. With novel metaphors and exaggerated descriptions, they show the sublimity of good and beauty, the meanness of evil and ugliness, and the irreconcilable difference between light and darkness, thus presenting the whole picture of an era, enlightening people's understanding, giving them correct love and hate, and inspiring people's hearts. In the second half, the poet wrote his profound inner world in the form of fantasy and fictional artistic conception. The description of heaven and earth, hope and disappointment in the poem appears repeatedly, which fully reveals the poet's anguish, shows the darkness and cold of the humid surrounding environment and shows the outstanding spirit of struggle. In this part, the poet deliberately draws rich images from myths and legends, and organizes them together through imaginative imagination, forming endless vivid plots and beautiful pictures. In the poet's pen, the sun (the sun god), Wang Shu (the moon god), Fei Lian (Fengbo), Red Dragon (Schleswig), Phoenix and Dragonfly are all freely controlled by him. County Garden, Xianchi, Tianjin and Buzhou are all places he has been, and his imagination is bold and rich, which is rare in ancient and modern times.

It is particularly noteworthy that when the poet uses these ancient myths and legends, he is not bound by the original stories, but writes the original myths into new plots through some free imagination, and makes them obey a new theme, which becomes a part of the poet's overall artistic conception of expressing his thoughts and feelings.

This expression undoubtedly makes fantasy more free. For example, in the last paragraph of the poem, he wrote that he was driving the phoenix emperor and the birds, and the horses and chariots were flying; Turning to Kunlun, crossing quicksand, referring to the four seas, suddenly stopping at Chu, could not bear to leave, pushing the whole poem to a climax, which effectively showed the poet's patriotic thought and sentiment. Such an artistic effect is hard to achieve without the help of myths and the reconstruction and conception of mythical materials.

(3) The development of the metaphor technique in The Book of Songs.

What are the main features of China's ancient poems in artistic conception and expression? Touching things becomes emotional? And then what? Ask for something to express your feelings? ,

To sum up, it is to borrow things to express feelings. This technique and characteristics were discovered by predecessors in the study of The Book of Songs. Sum it up? compare

Xing? . Qu Yuan made an important development in this regard. First of all, it began to integrate things with me, feelings with scenery, which greatly enhanced the artistic conception and expressive force of poetry. Therefore, Bixing in Qu Yuan's works is no longer simply comparing something with something, or touching something to get excited, but more about combining certain characteristics of things with people's thoughts, feelings, personality and ideals, so that things have symbolic meaning and feelings have more specific attachment and sustenance. From the image itself, the harmony between Bi and Xing in Li Sao is fictional and imaginary, but from the content and feelings expressed, it is completely realistic. This opened up the afterlife? Send love to the scene? ,? Holding something to express your wishes? The technique of expression has a great influence on China's ancient literature, especially poetry creation.

(D) Poetry form and language

The form of Lisao absorbs and draws lessons from the folk songs of southern Chu, but it does absorb the new style that was booming at that time.

The writing style breaks the four-character pattern of The Book of Songs, lengthens the poem and expands its structure, which not only increases the content, but also enhances the expressive force. It uses a large number of spoken dialects to enter poetry. What is the most commonly used one? Hey? , is a common spoken language in folk poetry at that time, especially in Chu folk songs. This word not only enhances the lyrical atmosphere of poetry, but also greatly enhances the sense of rhythm and musical beauty of poetry.