The poem "Yellow Crane Tower" can be said to be semi-ancient and semi-rhyme, and it is also an ancient rhyme. The main reason is that the horizontal lines in the first half can't meet the requirements of metrical poetry, and because three "yellow cranes" appear repeatedly in the poem, they are considered as "taboos" according to normal metrical poetry. Therefore, some people think that this poem is out of line and can only be regarded as the category of ancient poetry.
Then why did future generations write this poem into the Seven Laws? I think the main reason is that this poem is catchy, catchy, full of scenes and lofty artistic conception, and it is written too well and wonderfully.
The Yellow Crane Tower is the highest achievement of complex metrical poetry.
Cui Hao is by no means the first person to use reduplicated words in metrical poems. For example, Shen Quanqi's "Dragon Pool" used the word dragon, the word sky and the word pool. After him, Taibai's poems "On the Phoenix Terrace in Nanjing" and "Nautilus Island" are also repeated words, and some people say that they imitate Cui Hao's works, so we won't discuss right or wrong here. However, looking at the metrical poems with heavy words in famous works from ancient times to the present, later generations all think that the Yellow Crane Tower has the highest level and the best heavy words. No wonder Li Bai boarded the Yellow Crane Tower. There is a scene in front of you, on which Cui Hao wrote a poem? Sigh.
"Yellow Crane Tower" does not avoid heavy words, and may be a genius.
The three "yellow cranes" in the poem express different landscapes and people respectively. The yellow crane in "A long time ago, the yellow crane carried saints to heaven" refers to the yellow crane, which is a kind of god bird, representing longevity, and tells the beautiful legend that once spread here. The second yellow crane in Yellow Crane Tower is the name of the building where the poet stands. The fairy has driven the crane to the west, and the balcony is empty here. This return to reality from nostalgia gives people a feeling of longing but loss, and also gives people a feeling of loneliness and helplessness. The yellow crane in the third sentence "Yellow crane does not return to earth" should refer to the immortal who ascended to heaven. At this moment, the poet wants to see the crane return, or take himself away, or take away his sorrow and thoughts. Unfortunately, it is gone forever, leaving him only full of sadness and long white clouds in the distance. Such a lyrical scene with a yellow crane has a lofty artistic conception, a soft and elegant charm and a lofty and ethereal spirit.
The Yellow Crane Tower emphasizes the word "one sigh and three chants", which adds to the artistic conception of the poem.
At first, ancient poetry was used to sing and recite, either sad or happy. Only by singing it repeatedly will it be more flavorful and emotional. Just like the earliest poetry collection "The Book of Songs", most of them are repetitive sentences, which make people feel endless. The overlapping of three yellow cranes in the Yellow Crane Tower not only makes the artistic conception progressive, but also makes the emotional recitation repeated. If one or two words of "Yellow Crane" are removed and replaced with other words, the taste will be like chewing wax, the artistic conception will be broken, the charm will disappear, and it will be impossible to spread through the ages.
Of course, if metrical poetry is based on this sophistry or imitation, ordinary people will only become a joke to gild the lily, and only poets dare to do so.
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Personally, I think the unique semi-ancient and semi-poetry of Yellow Crane Tower is not only good, but also unrepeatable and will not be obtained again.
It reflects the historical law of the development of China's ancient poetry from classical poetry to modern poetry, is a milestone in the changes of Tang poetry, and is a peak of "Other" metrical poetry.
Talking about the Yellow Crane Tower today is actually a homesickness outside the poem, paying attention to the current epidemic situation in Wuhan. Let's pray for Wuhan. I hope we can raise our glasses as soon as possible and sing under the Yellow Crane Tower!