Bai Juyi's poems are full of charm and appeal to both refined and popular tastes. Even ordinary old ladies can understand and spread widely. He wrote more than 3,000 poems in his life, "so that his mouth became sore and his elbow became sore". Excessive reading and writing have reached the point where your mouth is sour and your fingers are shriveled. Writing poetry is very hard, and later generations will call it a "poetry demon."
Pipa Xing and Song of Eternal Sorrow are Bai Juyi's most successful works, and the outstanding feature of their artistic expression is the strengthening of lyric factors. Compared with the previous narrative poems, although these two works also use narrative and description to express events, they can no longer simplify the events, and only use one central event and two or three main characters to structure the whole article, such as dramatic ponytail events.
The author is going to write a few strokes soon, but in the most lyrical description of the characters' psychology and the rendering of the environmental atmosphere, he splashed ink like rain to enjoy himself. Even Pipa Xing, a work with more ink on the description of music and characters' experiences, closely links sounds, events and emotions, and sounds follow emotions, so that the process of poetry is always accompanied by touching emotional power.
In addition, the lyricism of these two works is also manifested in creating an appropriate atmosphere and comparing the artistic conception of poetry with selected images, or combining the bleak moonlight, the patter of rain at night and the heartbroken bell into a fascinating scene.
Or the rustling maple leaves, flowers and endless rivers and moons form a sad and lonely picture, in which the sadness, sadness and frustration revealed are all stained by the characters and events in the poem, which also makes readers feel uneasy when facing such artistic conception and atmosphere.
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