A Study Of Zhu Yizun’s Landscape Poems

Landscape poetry is one of the traditional themes of Chinese poetry,which has the characteristics of dynamic and inclusive,and has become one of the important media of ancient literati’s sustenance of emotion.In the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty,the whole society was immersed in the sadness and desolate atmosphere.Until Kangxi Dynasty,the contradictions between the society and the livelihood had been eased.As a result,there showed a prosperity.Zhu Yizun was the representative poet lived in this Time,whose landscape poetry has distinct epochal nature and profound emotional connotation.So his landscape poems deserve our attention.This paper includes the introduction,the text three chapter and the conclusion three parts.The introduction firstly defines the landscape poems of Zhu Yizun,then briefly summarizes the present situation and significance of the current academic research on Zhu Yizun’s poems.The first chapter analyzes the emotional implication of Zhu Yizun’s landscape poems in the light of his life experience and psychological feelings.Firstly,because he lived in the changes of dynasties,he was deeply influenced by the Confucian thought of the poet from very young age.The deep concerns to the motherland and the country was always borne in his mind until he died.He used landscape poems as a medium to vent the pain of his country and the love of the motherland,and vividly interpreted the inner remnant complex.Secondly,forced by the Times and life,he had to live far away from his native land.The mountains and rivers in the poems were used as tools to show his homesickness for his hometown as well as his relatives.Thirdly,no matter whether he was in office or not,he always showed his seclusion in the poetry.When he was not in the office,his hermit feelings were hidden in the mountains and rivers in his poets to alleviate the pain of losing the motherland.When he was in the office,he used it to smooth the conflict between "being an officer" and "being a hermit ".The second chapter focuses on the diverse styles of Zhu Yizun’s landscape poems.One style is the aesthetic style of sorrow and sadness.The author took the landscape poems to express his feelings for the country and himself,and presented a sadness and sad style through the overlapping of pathos and the desolate images such as Hongyan,Sunset and Smoke.The second is the aesthetic style of the bold elegance.In the catharsis of mountains and rivers,the poet was bold and optimistic inside.This was shown though the magnanimity of the mind and strange imagination in his poems.The third is the fresh and bright aesthetic style.This style was mainly presented in his late landscape poems.The bright and beautiful colors together with the artistic conception in the poem revealed the author’s leisure and comfort clearly.The last is the style of elegant charm.This style was mainly embodied in the extensive use of allusions in his landscape poems,which made the words elegant and implicit.Chapter three discusses the literal significance of Zhu Yizun’s landscape poems.Firstly,landscape poetry has a long history,with deep landscape culture accumulation.The creation of Zhu Yizun’s landscape poems undoubtedly learnt and drew lessons from the previous creative experience and artistic techniques to a certain extent,especially the inheritance of Xie Lingyun,Du Fu and Su Shi.Secondly,Zhu Yizun and Wang Shizhen are known as " Nan Zhu Bei Wang ".Through the comparison of their landscape poems,the characteristics of Zhu Yizun’s landscape poems were highlighted.Thirdly,Zhu Yizun’s landscape works had further expanded and enriched the theme and content of landscape poetry.The epilogue discusses the influence of Zhu Yizun’s works on the landscape poems of Zhejiang poets.