"Shi Pin" said that Cao Zhi's poems were "highly tolerant, elegant and resentful, and well written", which was highly appraised.
His poems are both elegant and profound in The Book of Songs. It not only reflects the reality of Han Yuefu, but also has the emotional appeal of Nineteen Ancient Poems, which is unique.
In his poems, there are a lot of poems that use thinking about women, abandoning women and describing beauty. He often compares himself to a homesick woman who misses her husband, or an abandoned woman, and sometimes compares himself to a beautiful woman. Why?
Vanilla beauty is often used to describe a gentleman, not from Cao Zhi. Qu Yuan also often compares beauty with people, and "beauty withers" comes from Qu Yuan. Beauty sometimes refers to the monarch, indicating that the literati want to be loved by the beauty, that is, to be appreciated by the monarch. However, this is not the case here.
Beauty can be compared to a talented and virtuous gentleman, hoping to be favored by a wise gentleman. If you don't meet a wise gentleman, you are talented and unwilling to give in. And Cao Zhi compares beauty to himself.
Cao Zhi's metaphor shows that he thinks he is a talented gentleman and wants to be appreciated by a wise monarch and show his ambition of home and country.
This is often reflected in his narrative poems, such as his miscellaneous poems, which are willing to serve the country and conquer Wu. But in reality, although he is ambitious, he is not satisfied, but he runs into a wall everywhere. "I hope to have a light economy, but I regret that there is no ark." There is no way to serve the country, only sigh!
After many failures, Cao Zhi also changed from a beauty to a homesick woman, longing for the monarch to change his mind. I can't expect it, but I think my wife has become an abandoned wife.
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