Song of Eternal Sorrow is a narrative poem with strong lyrical elements. The poet adopted the expressive techniques that China's traditional poems are good at telling stories and portraying characters, and harmoniously combined narrative, scenery description and lyricism, thus forming the characteristic of the poem's lyricism.
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.
Overall evaluation:
In this long narrative poem, the poet describes the love tragedy of Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei in the Anshi Rebellion with concise language, beautiful images, narration and lyricism: their love was destroyed by their own rebellion, and they ate the bitter fruit of this spirit endlessly.
Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei are both historical figures. Poets don't stick to history, but rely on a little shadow of history to re-create art according to people's legends and neighbors' singing at that time, from which they degenerate into a tortuous and touching story, which is described and sung in a circuitous and touching artistic form.
Because the stories and characters in the poem are artistic, and they are complex and true representations of people in reality, they can impress readers of all ages.