When the sun sets one year, I hear a cicada, telling me to make up my mind in my cell. However, it needs those songs with black wings to break the heart of a white-haired prisoner.
His flight passed through the thick fog, and his pure voice was drowned in the world of wind. Who knows if he is still singing? Who cares?
There is a long preface in front of this poem. The poet compares himself to a cicada and expresses his grief and indignation by comparison. In his poems, he uses the cicada's own situation, uses "exposure" and "windy" to describe the sinister political environment, and uses "flying hard to get in" and "singing easy to sink" to imply that he has been framed and is in jail. Not only vivid, but also shows his noble character and unyielding personality.
To sum up, the four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty played a very important role in the history of China's poetry and literature. In the history of Tang poetry, they were pioneers in reforming the poetic style of Qi and Liang Dynasties. Tang Taizong likes to write palace poems, most of which are romantic, with obvious traces of desolate palace poems. Due to the emperor's preference, the ministers of the DPRK followed the "trend" one after another. Among them, Shangguan Yi, the minister, inherited Sui Chen's legacy, and his works were all the rage, and scholars rushed to follow suit, which was called "official style" internationally.
Four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty stood out when the formalistic poetic style of Qi and Liang Dynasties prevailed. Wang Bo first stood up against this unhealthy trend in poetry, and then the other three people also responded and joined the campaign against "official style".
First of all, they made a great breakthrough in the content and theme of poetry, opposed those who blindly described the internal and external affairs of the court, and turned poetry from the narrow court to the broad market, from the narrow pavilion to the vast mountains and rivers beyond the Great Wall, including poems describing history, things and landscapes. Some people use this to express their feelings of parting, such as "Send to Shu Biography" and "Send People to Yishui" by Luo, while others use this to praise recruiting talented people to station troops in remote areas, thus expressing their ideals and ambitions to make contributions. All four people are talented and have low status, which makes them closer to social reality, so poetry is often used to expose some social phenomena. They changed the bad poetic style left by Qi Liang with their own creative practice and achieved certain results.
Secondly, the four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty laid the foundation for the five-character poem and made it mature. "Four Masters" Five-character Rhyme
It has appeared before, and Wang Ji, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty, also made some efforts, but there were not many works. It was not until the "Four Masters" that the form of the Five Laws was fully developed and gradually fixed in their works. The "Four Masters" created a large number of high-quality poems, which laid a good foundation for Shen Quanqi and the later metrical poems in Song Dynasty.
Five-character ancient poems flourished after the Three Kingdoms period, while seven-character ancient poems did not prosper until the Tang Dynasty. The "Four Masters" (Yang Jiong's Seven-character Poems) pushed the seven-character ancient poems to a mature stage with a large number of famous works. Therefore, the achievements of the four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty in the development of poetic forms are worthy of full recognition. Among the four people, each has its own emphasis. Wang and Yang are good at five laws, while Lu and Luo are good at seven ancient times. They have an important position in the history of poetry and literature, and they are transitional figures in the early Tang Dynasty. ;