Study On The Technique Of Xie Zhen’s Potery

This paper focuses on the meaning、article composition and sentence structure tostudy numerous poetic theories which put forward by Xie Zhen in his Siming PoetryTalks on the basis of inheritance from limit research achievement. It attempts to graspcomprehensively and look into the background, classification of poetry、 therelevance among literary criticism and the significance of Xie Zhen’s poetic theory.The first chapter gives a brief description of retro poetics in the middle of Mingdynasty, and illustrates Xie Zhen’s poetic ideology as one of “The Latter SevenMasters” under literary background which holds the idea that “writing must follow theexample of Pre-qi and Han dynasties, and poetry creation has to take Tang dynasty asits model”.The second chapter shows that poetic theory contains creative rules and skills ofpoetry, and it not only reflects the inner aesthetic rules of poetic language media, butalso is channel for poetic innovating and changing. The abstract poetic theories fromSiming Poetry Talks are classified into three categories, they reveal the connotation ofpoetic theory and at the same time provide paradigms for later generations’ poemwriting.The third chapter describes the relation of poetic theory and criticalpractice.The bold and splendid poems of Li Bai and the expertly written poems of Du Fureflect poetic theory in different degrees. What’s more, the poetic theory can helppeople comprehend poems of Li Bai and Du Fu. In turn, poems of Li Bai and Du Fucan prove rationality of poetic theory.The fourth chapter illustrates that Xie Zhen not only discusses poetic theory indetail, but also utilizes it to produce a large number of excellent poems. And at thesame time, according to criterion of poetic theory, he revises poems written by poetsof former times in order to make them live up to the criterion.The fifth chapter elaborates the important significance and far-reaching influenceof poetic theory over generations.