Pipa star: the tragic experience of female pipa teachers in Tang Dynasty and the artistic charm of poetry

Pipa Travel is a long narrative poem by Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, which describes the tragic experience of a female pipa teacher in the Tang Dynasty. This paper will analyze Pipa Xing from three aspects: the structure, artistic conception and artistic characteristics of the poem.

Poetry structure

Pipaxing is divided into 79 songs, each with a five-character sentence pattern and 395 sentences. The poem is rigorous in structure, ups and downs and fascinating.

Artistic conception description

Pipa Travel shows the impermanence of life and the cruelty of fate by describing the tragic experience of pipa female teachers. The scenes described in the poem, such as moving the boat closer, adding wine to the lamp, making noise with big strings and cutting small strings, all have strong visual and auditory effects and leave a deep impression on people.

Artistic feature

Pipa is a poem full of musicality and rhythm. Pipa music in the poem harmonizes the rhythm, complements the plot and artistic conception of the poem, and forms a unique artistic style. In addition, a large number of rhetorical devices, such as metaphor, personification and exaggeration, are used in this poem to make it more vivid and interesting.