Original poem (excerpt):
"Even Topic" (Excerpt) Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
The article is eternal, and the gains and losses are well known. The authors are all different and famous.
I can't see the poet, but the China way is booming. The seniors flew in, and the rest were beautiful.
Explanation:
Literary creation is related to a long time ago, but only one person knows the success or failure of its creation. Writers of all ages have their own unique achievements and status, so how can their reputation be easily spread to future generations?
Unfortunately, all the poets of Sao style represented by Qu Yuan died, and the literary creation of poems in Han Dynasty, especially five-character poems, took its place and flourished. At the end of the Han Dynasty, poets from Wei Chu, Jian 'an and Huang Chu dared to innovate and jumped into the poetry world with a vigorous posture. Unfortunately, by the Northern and Southern Dynasties, poetry had become a mere formality.
Extended data:
This poem was written in the autumn of the first year of Dali (766), and Du Fu moved to Kuizhou (now fengjie county, Sichuan) in the spring of that year. This poem was written by Du Fu when he lived in Kuizhou in his later years, and he has a profound thinking and understanding of the inheritance and development law of poetry art and his own poetry creation practice.
Poetry expresses Du Fu's views on poetry creation in his later years, which is summative. Therefore, it is said: "This article, which has been published all his life, has become a poem, and this article is its own preface (interpretation: Du Fu wrote this article all his life, which can be regarded as the preface of the article)".
The last sentence "eternal event" means that it has a long history and great significance. As Cao Pi said, "The article is a great cause of governing the country and an immortal event." .
The next sentence "I know what I know" means that the author understands the article best. Although these two poems are mainly about discussion, they are neat in antithesis, highly generalized in language, rich in connotation and full of philosophy.
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