Frontier poets in Tang Dynasty can be divided into several categories. One is to write frontier fortress themes without having been to frontier fortress, such as Li Ang and Cui. One has been to the frontier fortress, such as Cui Hao. The other is people who have lived and worked in frontier fortress. In this sense, Gao Shi and Cen Can are both true frontier poets. When they were young, they all went to Zhao Yan and crossed the river. When they were young, they all joined the army in frontier fortress. ?
As far as frontier poems in Tang Dynasty are concerned, Gao is as famous as Cen, and the style is similar. Yan Yu's Cang Lang Shi Hua in the Southern Song Dynasty said: "Gao Cen's poems are tragic and sad to read." But Gao Shi's poems are tragic; Cen Can's poems, solemn and stirring, have a steep pulling force. Gao Shi's poems emphasize quality, while Cen Shi's poems emphasize beauty. Cen Can went to the frontier fortress because of some negative factors. After he arrived at the frontier fortress, he began to write frontier fortress-themed works and wrote more and more poems. Gao Shi took the initiative to go to the frontier fortress. He wrote frontier poems from his early trip to Heshuo. When he was appointed governor of Fengqiu County and secretary of the shogunate in Hexi Longyou, his poems gradually decreased, but after he was appointed as our ambassador to Huainan, his poems were almost gone. Historically, Gao Shi began to write poems at the age of 50, but in fact it was just the opposite. Because Gao Shi wrote poems for fame and gain, by the time he entered the screen at the age of 50, the role of poetry was not great. In contrast, Cen Can's poems have incorporated more painstaking efforts and true feelings. ?
Gao Shi's poems are quite archaic, and there are many feelings about life in the sentences. On the surface, they seem to be more readable. Cen Can's poems, on the other hand, contain more achievements of modern poetry since the Six Dynasties. They are rich in imagination, changeable in meter and rhythm, more creative and poetic. Gao Shi is close to Confucianism and Cen Can is close to Taoism. Gao Shi pays attention to life practice, while Cen Can occupies a high position in the history of poetic art. They have similarities in experience and poetic style, but they also have differences in temperament and specific poetic characteristics. As far as their differences are concerned, there is a sharp contrast between them. ?
The higher fitness of 1. reflects the more realistic problem than that of Cen Can. His poems surpass many contemporary poets in the depth of reflecting reality, and the high spirit of pursuing immortal fame and fame in time, mixed with the sadness of facing reality coldly, makes his poetry creation full of emotion without losing its sonorous power, and has a tragic beauty with emotion.
2. Cen Can is superior to Gao Shi in describing frontier fortress scenery and folk customs. Under the control of frontier fortress's generosity and pride, the military life, frontier fortress scenery and folk customs in the poet's impression have become magical and magnificent, and they have been warmly praised, breaking through the traditional mode of writing frontier fortress poems and hard work of foot soldiers in the past, greatly enriching and broadening the description subject matter and content scope of frontier fortress poems.
Artistic differences:
1. Gao Shi combines his personal knowledge, observation and thinking with his fame and fortune ambitions. His desolation and sadness are rational and calm, but his tone is generous and high.
2. Cen Can's poems are emotional, paying attention to feelings and impressions, romantic imagination, elegant description and feelings of scenery. For example, "Riding a Horse to the Journey to the West": on a snowy night, the wind roars and the sand flies and rocks walk. These terrible climatic environments in the frontier desert have become spectacular scenery that set off heroism in the poet's impression, and they are wonderful scenery worth appreciating.
Three. Gao Shi's seven-character song uses regular sentences and parallel prose, but its literary talent is not complicated, but it wins with ups and downs, deep temperament and vigorous bones. Cen Can's seven-character quatrains are full of ups and downs, and his posture is very flexible.
First, the difference between ideas and themes.
The ideological content of Gao Shi's frontier poems is profound. He is good at observing and analyzing the present situation of frontier fortress with a politician's keen eye, linking war with national security and people's sufferings and joys, taking the overall situation into account, boldly expressing his personal political views on frontier defense, and at the same time mercilessly exposing the military contradictions he has heard and seen.
Cen Can's frontier poems describe exotic new things or strange scenery with magnificent style, and create various artistic images with rich content. "
Second, there are similarities and differences in artistic styles, and their expressions have their own characteristics.
Gao Shi's poems are deep and simple in majesty and tragic; Cen Can's poems are bold and free. Gao Shi often uses contrast and contrast, and his language is vigorous, simple, refined and accurate; Cen Can likes metaphor and exaggeration, and his language is novel and free, showing a strong romantic color.