The main content of horse poems is to express the lofty ideals, lofty ambitions, and emotions and resentments of the heroes by chanting horses, praising horses, or lamenting the fate of horses.
"Horse Poetry" is a set of twenty-three five-character quatrains composed by the poet Li He of the mid-Tang Dynasty. Li He is "the founder of Changji-style poetry." Known as the "Poetry Ghost", he is a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty who is as famous as the "Poetry Sage" Du Fu, the "Poetry Immortal" Li Bai, and the "Poetry Buddha" Wang Wei.
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"Horse Poetry·The desert sand is like snow" is a five-character quatrain composed by Li He, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. It is the first chapter of "Twenty-three Horse Poems" Five articles. This poem uses Bixing technique. The first two lines of the poem depict the flat sand like snow and the crescent moon like a hook, showing a peaceful and distant scene; the last two lines imagine galloping on horseback, strongly conveying the hope of making achievements but not being appreciated, and are full of sighs. meaning.
Li He, the author of "Horse Poems", was a romantic poet in the mid-Tang Dynasty. He, Li Bai and Li Shangyin were called the Three Lis of the Tang Dynasty. He is a representative of the transition period from the mid-Tang Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty. Most of the poems he wrote lamented his untimely birth and inner depression, and expressed his pursuit of ideals and ambitions; they also reflected the separatist rule of feudal towns, the dictatorship of eunuchs, and the cruel exploitation of the people at that time.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ma Shi