A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PROTOTYPES IN THE POEM THE SONG OF EVERLASTING SORROW (806) BY BAI JUYI

Abstract

The article offers an analysis of some structural features of the poetic semantics of the poem The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Bai Juyi (白居易《长恨歌》, 806) in biographical, historical and cultural contexts, and also draws a parallel with possible prototypes. In this regard, the main purpose of the article is to consider some semantic and structural connections related to the chronotope, archetypes and prototypes on the material of the The Song. During the work on the study, it was found out that the narrative model of “avoiding facts” (避实就虚) was used in the plot of the poem, superimposed on factual material and related to the biography of the emperors Han Wudi (汉武帝) and Tang Xuanzong (唐玄宗).