1. Comparison between Li Bai and Li Heshi
In poetry, the strangeness of saying things should be attributed to Qu Yuan. His poems go to heaven and serve all things, and his words are very strange. Affected by this, among the Tang poems, Li Bai's poems and Li He's poems are both famous for their strangeness. Influenced by Qu Yuan's poems, Cen Can is famous for his novelty, but his poetic style is quite different from that of Li Er. Li Bai's poem is strange and magnificent: "The Yellow River comes to Kunlun from the west, roaring at Wan Li and touching Longmen." Oh, but it's very high and dangerous! ; It's hard to get to the sky. "Here, exaggeration is mainly used to exaggerate the original majestic things again, which constitutes a striking momentum and artistic conception, and the style is fantastic. Li He's poems are strange and mysterious. " The Kunlun jade is broken, the phoenix calls, the lotus cries and laughs ... dreaming that the holy mountain teaches the gods, and the old fish dances with small waves. Wu Guishu didn't sleep, and he flew barefoot to wet cold rabbits. "Here, imagination is mainly used to imagine things that are difficult to embody into some kind of image, forming a confusing artistic conception and strange style. Although exaggeration and imagination are also used in Cen Can's frontier poems, they are rooted in the soil of real life and are the "true expression" of frontier life. For example, "on this September night, there was a cold wind blowing on the wheel tower, and the valley was full of broken stones like pecking rice, which tilted down in tandem with the wind." "This is an objective existence and a true portrayal of frontier life. Hong said in "Beijiang Poetry": "A poem that is strange and reasonable is called strange. If it's strange and unreasonable, it's not strange. The poems of Lu Yuchuan and Li Changgu can blame unreasonable people. Curious about poetry is only ignorance of history. " This so-called "reason" is in line with the actual situation, which can be said to capture the characteristics of Cen's poems, but it is incorrect to say that Li He's poems are "strange but unreasonable". They show another kind of strangeness, which is different from Cen Can's style.
Second, the comparison with Gao Shi's frontier poems.
Cen Can and Gao Shi are outstanding representatives of frontier poets. They have the same background and interests, and they all have long-term life experiences. Therefore, their frontier poems all show the same "tragic" characteristics, but they are different. From the subject matter, Gao Shi has deep feelings; Cen's poems have a wide range of life. From the style: Gao Shi sees heroism in depression and frustration, and its momentum is internal; Cen's poems are bold and unrestrained in fluency and smoothness, and the momentum is exposed. From the narrative way, "Gao Shi" is a narrative and an argumentative essay, which expresses the mind directly; Cen's poems, on the other hand, are better at describing and are more emotional about the scenery. From the perspective of scenery writing: high poetry ignores appearance and attaches importance to emotion; Cen's poems emphasize form and spirit. From the perspective of inheriting literary heritage; The characteristics of high poetry and light appearance are obvious; Cen's poems are more about the achievements of modern poetry in the Six Dynasties. All this, the ancients have many comments. Let's make a rough comparison between Ge Yanxing and Zou Ma Chuan Xing:
Around the main line of the frontier war, it shows the life of the Tang Dynasty in many ways, with rich content, especially revealing the sharp stage opposition between officers and men in the army under the feudal system; The content of Shu Dao Ji is relatively simple, written at night, describing the wonders of frontier fortress and setting off the hardships of frontier fortress with sinister environment. In terms of artistic style, Ge Yanxing, with its vast and desolate decline scenery, implies the defeat of the battle, the hard work and sacrifice of the soldiers, and deliberately renders tragic scenes; "Shu Dao Ji" depicts the strange scene of the frontier with exaggerated language, with extraordinary momentum. In writing techniques, we should pay attention to the use of contrast techniques; "A Passage to Sichuan" adopts the detailed description in the typical environment. Stylistically, Gao Shi follows old topics and does not cast new ideas; Cen's poems are peculiar and impartial, with rhyming sentences and a turn of three sentences, bold and vigorous tone and lively rhythm. In a word, Xing is bold and magnificent, showing its profoundness and being good at realism. In its heroic grandeur, A Journey to Shu Road shows strangeness and grandeur, and also shows superiority with romanticism, thus showing the novel beauty of Cen's poems.
Jiangnan breeze and bright moon, grass growing and warblers flying, of course, is a poetic beauty; Hu Jia's interaction beyond the Great Wall and the shrill sound of herding horses are not desolate pictures that moisten poetry. Cen Can, with his frontier life experience and "curious" nature, opened up the realm of frontier poems, developed the theme of frontier poems, and opened up a new field and a new world for the art of poetry.