Mulan Poem is a folk song of Yuefu in the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. Guo Maoqian's Yuefu Poem is classified as "a song with a horizontal wind, a song with a horizontal wind from Liang Gujiao". This is a long narrative poem, which tells the story of a girl named Mulan disguised as a man, joined the army for her father, made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, refused to be an official after returning to North Korea, and just wanted to go home and reunite. She warmly praised the woman's brave and kind qualities, her enthusiasm for defending the country and her fearless spirit.
The whole poem conceives the legendary story of Mulan with "Mulan is a girl", which is full of romance; The details are cleverly arranged. Although it is about war, it is more about life scenes and children's modality, full of life breath. Using questions and answers, parallelism, antithesis and intertextuality to describe the modality and psychology of characters is vivid and meticulous, with strong artistic appeal.
Artistic features:
The artistic form of this poem is noteworthy in several aspects. First of all, the narrative is detailed and appropriate. For example, writing about life in the army is very simple, but it is very complicated before going out and returning from meritorious service. This is determined by the author's intention to write this poem. The author is only interested in the rare thing that Mulan disguised herself as a man and joined the army as her father.
At the beginning of the poem, her anxiety and thoughts are nothing more than to show that she is a woman, because it is natural for men to go to war, and it is not surprising for women to go to war. In the middle, I mentioned "I didn't hear my parents calling a female voice" to highlight her female identity.
After writing, I don't want to be an official. After returning home, I am eager to go home. All kinds of actions emphasize that I am a woman. The details of the whole poem revolve around this intention.
Secondly, the author attaches importance to the characterization of characters, and is good at expressing characters in the process of contradiction generation and resolution, thus making characters have distinct personality colors. At the same time, the style of the whole poem is beautiful and vigorous, simple and vivid.
Finally, the whole poem uses a variety of rhetorical devices, mainly antithesis, parallelism and intertextuality, which not only exaggerates the atmosphere and emphasizes the narrative plot, but also makes the language fluent and full of charm. Among them, intertextuality is a unique rhetorical device in this poem, which plays a great role in depicting the psychology, shaping the image and rendering the atmosphere of the characters.