Evaluation of Cao Zhi's Poetry

Poetry is the main field of Cao Zhi's literary activities. There are great differences in content between the early stage and the late stage. In the early stage, poetry can be divided into two categories: one is to express the carefree life of his noble prince, and the other is to reflect his feelings of the times that he was born in troubled times and grew up in the army. The later poems mainly express their grief and indignation under repression, and express their desire to be abandoned and hope to make contributions to the world.

Cao Zhi has many innovations and developments in the art of poetry, especially in the creation of five-character poems. First of all, most of the ancient poems in Han Yuefu are mainly narrative, and only the lyric elements in Nineteen Ancient Poems have played an important role in their works. Cao Zhi developed this trend, and organically combined lyric and narrative, so that the five-character poems can not only describe complex events, but also express tortuous psychological feelings, greatly enriching its artistic functions. Have a great influence on future generations. In the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, he was promoted to the position of model essay. Xie Lingyun, a great poet in the Southern Dynasties, praised: "There is only one stone in the world, and there are eight fights with the sword. When I fight, the world is divided into one fight."