First, the character introduction:
Wang Changling, a native of Jinyang, Hedong, also known as Zhao Jing Chang 'an, was a frontier poet and minister in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Wang Changling was a scholar in the 15th year of Kaiyuan, and served as secretary of provincial studies. In the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan, he was awarded the commandant of Surabaya County. In twenty-seven years, he was relegated to Lingnan, returned to Chang 'an from Lingnan North and South the following year, and served as Jiangning County in winter.
Wang Changling's poetic realm is vigorous, open and unique. When talking about the Seven Wonders of the Ming Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, Wang Shizhen thought that only Wang Changling could compare with Li Bai and listed it as his masterpiece. Wang Changling's frontier poems are generous, heroic, magnificent and of high style, and he has created a large number of frontier poems. Later, Wang Changling was called the founder and pioneer of frontier poems.
Wang Changling has the reputation of Wang Jiangning, a poet master, and is also praised as a seven-legged master by later generations. Wang Changling's poems are dense and clear, just like Gao Shi's Wang Zhihuan. He has six volumes of anthology and four volumes of poetry. The main representative works are Join the Army, Out of the Fortress and Always in My Heart.
Second, the poetry content:
The first category is frontier poems that follow the old theme of Yuefu. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the frontier poets have always been headed by Gao Shi Cen Can. Both of them are good at singing long poems, and their works are vigorous and magnificent. Wang Changling, on the other hand, found a new way to express all kinds of appealing feelings in the form of short quatrains, including the ambition of never returning without destroying Loulan and the joy of winning Tuguhun alive.
The second category is in my heart forever's poems and palace poems, which express the grievances of maids. On the other hand, Wang Changling showed his superb artistic talent in describing women's inner feelings under the feudal system in Gong Ci and in my heart forever.
The third category is farewell poems. Wang Changling made a lot of friends all his life, and he had contacts with many literati hermits. Especially when he was demoted twice and exiled for many years, how much he needed the comfort of relatives and friends and the warmth of friendship.
Third, the artistic features:
In terms of artistic style, Wang Changling's Four Musts are characterized by euphemism, subtlety, twists and turns, and profound artistic conception. Many of them express the poet's exposure and bitterness to reality through metaphor and sustenance, so they are in the same spirit as Qu Yuan's Li Sao.
Wang Changling's poetry embodies the poet's pursuit of elegant and vigorous language art style from three aspects: the use of language images and the combination of sentence patterns. In the choice of language images, Wang Changling often chooses big numerals, powerful verbs and accurate adjectives to express magnificent scenes or magnificent minds, which embodies the beauty of language power.