Song of Eternal Sorrow is a long narrative poem by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The whole poem vividly describes the love tragedy between Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. With the help of historical figures and legends, poets have created touching stories and reproduced the truth of real life through their own artistic images, which have infected readers for thousands of years. The theme of this poem is "Song of Eternal Sorrow". This poem has had a far-reaching influence on many literary works in later generations.
The original sentence is: Earth forbearance, Heaven forbearance; One day both will end, and this endless sadness will last forever. Even if it lasts forever, there will always be an end, but this resentment of life and death will never end.
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Creation background
In the first year of Yuanhe (806), Bai Juyi was appointed as county commandant (now Xi zhouzhi county). One day, my friends Chen Hong and Wang Zhifu and I visited Xianyou Temple near Ant, and talked about Li Longji and Yang Guifei. Wang Zhifu believes that something as outstanding as this will disappear with the passage of time if it is not polished.
He encouraged Bai Juyi: "Lotte is deeper than poetry and deeper than love. How about trying to make a song? " So Bai Juyi wrote this long poem. Because the last two sentences of the long poem are "the earth lasts forever, and the sky lasts forever;" One day, both will end, and this endless sadness will last forever. "They called this poem" The Song of Eternal Sorrow ". At the same time, Chen Hong wrote a legendary novel "Song of Eternal Sorrow".
Poetic style
This poem is one of Bai Juyi's most outstanding works, and it is also one of the models of the close combination of lyric poetry and narrative poetry in China's classical poetry. At the beginning of the poem, both the hero and heroine were condemned, but with its development, the poet enriched the story with his own feelings and imagination, giving this love tragedy a more universal meaning, which made the author and readers have a high degree of sympathy for it.
To some extent, it broke away from the true colors of history and became a sentimental "amorous feelings" poem, mainly praising the love between Li and Yang. Xuanzong made great efforts in his early years, so Kaiyuan ruled the world. In his later years, he was dissolute and had no way, so he had gone with the world. Faced with this concrete reality, the poet has formed contradictory and complicated feelings for this natural elder, sometimes praising beauty, sometimes remembering it, and sometimes criticizing it, while Song of Eternal Sorrow has both.
This is determined by the poet's understanding of historical events and social life. In writing, the author broke the rules that "the core of his fable poems is true" and "not for writing". In the narrative process, he repeatedly uses imagination and fiction, the perfect combination of emotion, scenery and reason, and strong lyricism runs through the whole narrative process. Language, syllable harmony, sentence combination and the form and function of subject-object question and answer make the whole poem swaying.
The tragic fate of people based on Zhuang Chan's thought, the transcendence of this fate, the pursuit of spiritual freedom and spiritual pleasure are also the artistic characteristics of Song of Eternal Sorrow, with vivid characters, beautiful language tone, lyrical scenery and lyrical narrative.
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