ON THE HEROIC SPIRIT OF BAI JUYI’S POETRY

Abstract

Bai Juyi’s poetry creation generally pursues the easy style, but there is also a strong side in the easy style. The mutual integration and dialectical unity of easy style and strong strength constitute the diverse features of his poetry. His poems often show pride when writing about the theme of caring for the country and people’s livelihood, strong and broad when writing about the natural landscape, and momentum in poems on things. This heroic spirit is not only reflected in Bai Juyi’s allegorical poems, but also in his leisure poems and sentimental poems. These poems are full of emotion. Poet is good at selecting magnificent and vigorous images, words conveying power and breadth, and often use vigorous images as metaphors. The heroic spirit in Bai Juyi’s poetry is not only influenced by Du Fu, a poet of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and Liu Yuxi, a poet of the same era, but also closely related to the overall atmosphere of advocating heroism in the poetry circle of the middle Tang Dynasty; The Confucian spirit hidden in his heart and the heroic spirit in his temperament are the internal root of the heroic spirit in Bai poetry.