The merits of Bai Juyi's allegorical poems:
1. The selection of materials is true and typical, the theme is clear, and realism is emphasized.
2. The language of poetry is simple and natural, popular and accessible, eloquently stated, sentimental and exciting.
3. Express opinions directly in poems, express your own opinions in narratives, and reveal reality.
These all set examples for later writers who mainly wrote realistic poetry.
Disadvantages of Bai Juyi's allegorical poems:
1. Some poems impose endings, losing their artistry, and are mostly repetitive, which makes the poems unnecessary repetitive and redundant.
2. Some of the narrative events are not typical enough, so the writing is boring and unbearable.
3. Too much emphasis on the practical utilitarian purpose of poetry, using common ideas to structure poems, and relatively insufficient true feelings.
4. The language is exposed due to the single-minded pursuit of simplicity and simplicity, resulting in a poem that is not refined and implicit enough.
Bai Juyi's allegorical poem
"Xiang Shi died at the beginning, who knows the authenticity of his life?" is the key sentence of this article. The purpose of "eliminating suspicion" is to distinguish authenticity from falsehood. Once authenticity is distinguished from falsehood, doubts will naturally disappear. If we draw conclusions prematurely without time to test them, we will easily be blinded by temporary superficial phenomena, fail to distinguish truth from falsehood, and wrong good people.
The meaning of the poem is extremely clear, but the language is euphemistic. The "method" of "eliminating suspicion" is described from both the front and the back, but it is not directly pointed out. The former gives two examples of "testing jade" and "identifying materials", and the latter gives two examples of Duke Zhou and Wang Mang to let readers think about it.
It is both an argument and an argument. It embodies philosophy in the image and expresses universal laws with specific things. It is thought-provoking that the big can be seen from the small. In the form of a seven-character rhyme poem, it expresses a profound philosophy that makes people think rationally and read it interestingly.