Orderly before the poem, it was said that in May of four years, Cao Biao, the white horse king, and Cao Zhang, the king of Rencheng, went to Beijing to worship heaven. After arriving in Beijing, Ren Chengwang was killed. In July, he returned to the fief with the White Horse King, and wanted to take the opportunity of his peers to talk about his feelings, only to be forced by Cao Pi's minions and envoys to go their separate ways. In this critical situation and extremely sad mood, Cao Zhi wrote this article.
This poem is a sad song of life, which shows his estrangement from his family and his grief and resentment at the cannibalism of his flesh and blood. He also used narrative, lyric, discussion, description and other writing techniques to express his sadness and farewell feelings, and expressed his persecuted situation in many ways. The first and second chapters of the poem, on the one hand, express his attachment to the capital, on the other hand, try their best to describe the scene of trekking and landing. In this narrative and description, we can see that the poet was guided by Gu Zhan and sighed step by step.
To sum up, the poem "Wang Biao for a White Horse" is Cao Zhi's lament for life, which is a rare masterpiece both ideologically and artistically, and its artistic innovation deserves people's attention.