Study On The Lyric Art Of Huang Tingjian's Ci Poetry

Most of Huang Tingjian's early ci poems are created only for game, and the lyricism doesn't obviously manifest. But when it goes to his later period, especially to being banished, he begins to express his feeling in the ci poetry. The emotion in his ci poetry becomes profound along with his experience. He usually opens out the changing course of himself and gives vent to his sensation in his ci poems. His later ci poetry not only has complex meaning, but also wears a special lyric feature.Huang Tingjian depicts the being banished mind lively in his ci poetry. Though he is distressed and suffering, but he tries to break away from the affliction. He constantly dilutes the inner grief, and want to transcend the sufferance. But in fact, he doesn't entirely achieve the detached grade. So, the obstinacy and pride frequently radiates from the lines.There is strong consciousness of he himself between the lines. In artistic expression, he can well assort with his ambivalent psychology. He often combines two types of contradictory factors in his ci poetry, which is embodied on four aspects: â… , Being energetic but gentle and lovely; â…¡, Being desultory in appearance but lumbersome inside; â…¢, Being stagger from happiness to sadness; â…£, Being contrasted on depiction.The literary quotation is a kind of important lyric carrier. In Huang Tingjian's ci poetry, it turns into such symbol that can reflect the writer's aesthetic trend, and carry his emotion. He doesn't use many literary quotations hard to understand. He can pick out some certain literary quotation to carry his feeling timely. It shows convergence on the using, and then forms some series: "The dream" is his signs with emotion for the life; "The grace" is the collision between the writer and the ancients; "The story about the Zen " is his apperception in the Zen field.