Guo Moruo has created many well-known works since 19 18. The works before and after the May 4th Movement are quite different from those after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The works before and after the May 4th Movement are mainly romantic and full of passion, calling on people to become producers of * * *, such as "Preface to the Goddess": "I am a proletariat: because I have no private property except a naked me." Goddess is my own production, which may be said to be my private property, but I am willing to be a producer, so I made her public. Goddess! Go and find someone who is the same as my vibration number; You go and find the person whose ignition point is equal to mine. Go ahead, go ahead, touch the heartstrings of my lovely young brothers and sisters and light up their wisdom! "It is not difficult to see from the poem that Guo Moruo called on people to become producers of * * *.
In The Goddess Rebirth, through the writing of the smoky dark world, it reflects the chaotic social situation of the warlords in China at that time, and encourages people to struggle and pursue the light. The spirit of resisting ugly reality and pursuing beautiful ideals expressed in Xiang Lei not only conforms to Qu Yuan's character, but also represents the poet's situation and mood during the May 4th Movement. Goddess has a strong anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary spirit and distinctive revolutionary romanticism, and has a strong spirit of the times, which is also a major style of Guo Moruo's works-romantic style.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guo Moruo successively created historical dramas Cai Wenji and Wu Zetian with the theme of "reversing the verdict", trying to beautify the historical images of Cao Cao and Wu Zetian. Great changes have taken place in his creative style. For example 1958, Lao Guo wrote "Curse the Sparrow": "Sparrow Sparrow is so angry that you don't care if the sky collapses. Sparrows eat rice like the wind. Sparrows are just lazy and have nothing to do. Sparrows are too arrogant. Although they have wings, they can't fly high. Sparrows are too arrogant, afraid of both red and noisy. You are such an asshole, jumping around panting. I have committed crimes for thousands of years, and I want to settle accounts with you today. Hit and hit, and finally dry the fire. The weapons are burned together, and the four evils are lawless. " In connection with the situation in China at that time, he was satirizing those unrealistic dreamers. Judging from his poems, his style has changed greatly compared with the May 4th Movement, with humor and satire as the main content.
Guo Moruo is a "royal scholar". The so-called "imperial literati" must have certain literary achievements and have no own value standards. Everything is based on the standards of leadership, taking the likes and dislikes of leadership as likes and dislikes, and taking the right and wrong of leadership as right and wrong. Later poems are mostly praise. However, in this poem, Lao Guo clearly expressed that the Great Leap Forward should not be unrealistic, and it was not without its own values.
To sum up, Guo Moruo's early work style is romanticism, encouraging people to struggle and join the ranks of productism; The later style is dominated by more praise and humor. At the same time, although he is a "scholar for imperial use", he has his own views and does not blindly follow the leadership.