Before Cao Cao died, Cao Zhi was a favored son of heaven. His personality is straightforward and willful, and he is very talented. He is proficient in everything, whether it is military or military. Even his father, Cao Cao, wanted to change him into a prince.
Cao Zhi has great ambitions in his heart. He wants to make contributions. The poem "White Horse Pieces" just expresses Cao Zhi's lofty ideals and ambitions.
As one of Cao Zhi's early poems, White Horse Pieces not only created an image of a patriotic warrior with high martial arts skills and death, but also entrusted Cao Zhi with great ambition to make contributions.
In addition to White Horse, Cao Zhi's early works were also deeply influenced by the environment at that time. For example, the poem Seeing English is full of sadness, generosity and impermanence.
The turning point of Cao Zhi's life began after Cao Cao's death. As a big tree behind Cao Zhi, once Cao Cao fell, it meant that Cao Zhi, who was deeply loved by Cao Cao, lost his shelter and was completely exposed to his brothers and the world.
Cao Zhi, who has always been proud of his talent, was soon hit by his own brother Cao Pi. In order to survive, Cao Zhi wrote a seven-step poem, which made the listener sad and shed tears, and changed from a complacent young man to a man with lofty ideals who was always unhappy.
Wang Biao on a White Horse is the most iconic poem in Cao Zhi's later period, which expresses his lofty aspirations and depressed feelings. As the most outstanding poet in Jian 'an history, Cao Zhi's five-character poems enjoy a high reputation in the history of literature. His poems have a gorgeous and vigorous style, which can be said to have the majestic style of his father's poems.
Cao Zhi, praised by Xie Lingyun as "one stone in the world, eight fights alone in Cao Zijian", often uses intentions, actions and figures related to greatness in his poems (Wan Li is still close to her neighbors, and the wine fights ten fights, etc. ); The beauty of language, the intensity of emotion and the vividness of melody. ); His poems pay attention to the beauty of symmetrical circulation and the tempering of language, the combination of multiple sentences and laws, the neatness of antithesis and the symmetry and harmony of sound and rhyme. In addition, he also used epigrams at the beginning of the poem to raise the whole poem, which was very neat at the beginning.
Cao Zhi was not only a great poet before his death, but also had a great influence on later generations after his death. What's more, it must be Cao Zhi who says he is an elegant poet, which makes people have to sigh that Cao Zhi is a favored son with a bumpy fate!