作为绝句的一种,七言绝句属于近体诗范畴。又因七言绝句短小精悍,节奏明快,便于创作,利于传诵,故在有唐一代空前鼎盛。七言绝句发展到晚唐,呈现出以口语入诗,思想上比较贴近民间的创作特点。而王驾作为晚唐一位擅长七绝创作的诗人,虽然现存诗集中收录其作的数量不多,但是绝大多数都有可圈可点的地方,尤其是《古意》和《社日》两篇,不仅反映出七绝发展到晚唐所呈现出的态势,而且也彰显出王大用本人诗作的艺术特色。
As one kind of quatrains,Seven-Character Poems belong to the category of modern style poetry. Because Seven-Character Poem is characterized with shortness,sprightly rhythm,convenience to create and read, it reaches its climax unprecedentedly seen during the Tang Dynasty. And the late Tang Dynasty saw its further development of use of spoken language in creation and closeness to the common people in thought. As a late Tang Dynasty poet proficient in Seven-Character Poem writing,Wang Jia has created some marvelous poems, few of which are collected in the existing poetry anthology,with the two poemsGu Yi andShe Rias the typical example. They not only reflect the trend of Seven-Character Poems in the late Tang Dynasty,but also show the artistic features of Wang Jia’ s poem.