There are more than 170 satirical poems by Bai Juyi, and their artistic features are as follows.
First, "a sad story", each poem satirizes only one social problem. Under the title of each poem, his Fifty Poems of New Yuefu shows the beauty of the poem in the form of a small preface. The preface to "Selling Charcoal Weng" reads: "Kumiya is also." In this way, the theme of poetry is very distinct and prominent.
Second, he is good at choosing typical people and things and portraying them vividly. Although Bai Juyi's new Yuefu had a clear purpose of exhortation, it did not fall into the boring face of pure reasoning. These works are very good at choosing typical character events to reflect important social problems, such as Guan Momai, and they are deliberately described in detail, not only writing her actions, but also writing her language, thus enhancing the appeal.
Bai Juyi's new Yuefu poems are also good at using rhetorical devices such as comparison and analogy. Some works put strong contrast at the end of the poem, which is cold and implicit. For example, after focusing on the luxurious life above the banquet of dignitaries, Light Fat concludes with "Early in the south of the Yangtze River, people in Quzhou eat people" and achieves a strong critical effect. Third, talk about waking up. The arguments in Bai Juyi's new Yuefu works are very distinctive. Most of them are to the point, very sharp and highlight the central content of the whole poem. Most of these comments are placed at the end, which is the so-called "pawn chapter to show ambition." For example, "Red Carpet" said: "Does the satrap of Xuanzhou know that a carpet is worth a thousand silk? I don't know if the floor is warm and people are warm, so take less clothes to make lichens! " Extremely critical and critical
Fourth, the language is popular and fluent. Bai Juyi's new Yuefu pursues "speaking with quality but with diameter", "speaking directly and to the point" and "fluent style", with popular and fluent language and few allusions, not to mention uncommon and difficult words. On the contrary, we often use spoken language and common sayings, and often use the thimble writing commonly used in folk songs, such as: "Jealousy makes you sneak into the Yang Palace, and you will live in an empty room all your life. Leave it blank, the autumn night is long, the night is long and the sky is unknown. " (Shang Yang White-haired Man). During the mid-Tang Dynasty, many poets were creating a new Yuefu that stung American current affairs. The popular and fluent language of Bai Juyi's new Yuefu had great personality and characteristics.