Bai Juyi once divided his poems into four categories: allegory, leisure, sentimentality and heteronomy. Generally speaking, the first three categories are ancient bodies, and the latter category is near bodies. The first three categories are roughly divided by content, but they overlap. Among these four types of poems, Bai himself pays more attention to the first two types.
According to him, he collected these satirical poems. Those who are comfortable, have feelings for beauty, and are reconciled with martial arts are named "new Yuefu" because of things. Leisure poetry is "those who retire from public office and live alone, or move to illness and settle down, taking sex as a song"; Sentimental poetry is "things are introduced from the outside, reasons move inside, and feelings sigh"; Miscellaneous poems are "five words, seven words, long sentences and quatrains, from rhyme to rhyme".
Generally speaking, the first three categories are ancient poems, and the last category is modern poetry; The contents of the first three categories are quite different, but some of them are intertwined. Among these four kinds of poems, Bai Juyi pays more attention to satirical poems and leisure poems. He believes that satirical poems reflect "the will to help others" and leisure poems express "the intention to be independent", which are the direct manifestations of his life goals.
Sentimental poems and miscellaneous poems are "either seduced by one thing, sent by a smile, spontaneous, which is not what I have been doing all my life."
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Theme concentration is one of the artistic features of Bai Juyi's satirical poems. He usually only chooses the most typical thing, highlighting a theme, "a sad thing", and the theme is very clear. In order to convey the theme to readers more clearly, you can add a small preface under the title of the poem to point out the theme, or "show your will" to highlight the theme.
Secondly, the artistic features of Bai poetry are also reflected in the portrayal of characters. He can grasp the characteristics of the characters and draw the characters vividly by line drawing.
However, the poetry of Bai poetry is not simple, and he often reposes the meaning with simple sentences, which has achieved amazing artistic effects. The poem "Light Fat" describes the mental outlook of ministers, doctors and generals attending the meeting, as well as the richness of wine and food on the table, but the conclusion is: "There is a drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and people in Quzhou eat people." What a tragic scene this is.
Leisure poems and allegorical poems are two kinds of poems that Bai Juyi pays special attention to. Both of them are realistic, vulgar and thrifty, but they are quite different in content and mood.
Irony poems aim at "supporting the two", which are closely related to social politics and write more about lofty sentiments and excitement; Leisure poems are meant to be "exclusive", "content with harmony, and give play to one's temperament" (Nine Books of Yuyuan), thus showing an indifferent, peaceful and leisurely state of mind.
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