Pull -- Yuan Jia Jiang Yan's Poems Discussion

The idea of poetics was flourishing in the South dynasty . Jiangyan, as a famous poet , displayed distinct the idea of poetics by his poems. Jiangyan thought that content and form should be united, but we shouldn' t make excessive demands of them by a uniform model. Jiangyan was good at learning from others' strong points and imitating others' styles. Jiangyan wasn' t always rigidly adhere to others' styles. Contrarily, He was in pursuit of unusual style. In Jiangyan' s opinion, the goal of composing poems wasn' t for winning an official rank, not for leaving behind his fame, but for pleasing his heart.Jiangyan drifted apart gentleman' s aspiration for country and people , and expressed his own true feelings in great detail. Jiangyan' s poems were not only powerful but also mild .Jiangyan suffered many a setback during his life, this sadness and desolation affect later ages for a long time .His poems' style was decided by his life experiences, character and psychology. Besides, gentry' s degeneration, artistic trend and Jiangyan' s learning from artistic tradition had something to do with his poems' styles.Jiangyan composed his poems during Yuanjia poetry and Yongming poetry, so Jiangyan' s poems had strong points of Yuanjia poetry and Yongming poetry. Moreover, his poems had his own characteristic. This is value of Jiangyan' s poems in the history of poems.