Geographical Images And Geographical Space Of Jiang Kui’s Poems

Jiang Kui was a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty,with more than 300 poems handed down.His poems have a significant impact on the development of later literature.Jiang Kui’s life experience was very different from other literati.Since his childhood,Jiang Kui moved his place of residence with his father’s work.He didn’t pass the official examanation even,so he didn’t have any work and place to live,which created an objective basis for us to explore the geographical space in his poems.Jiang Kui’s poems are greatly influenced by the breath of life wherever he had gone.From the perspective of literary subject matter,his poems were mainly divided into two types: respond with a poem and lyricism;and lyricism is mainly based on love,friendship and patriotic feelings.He wandered all over the place,so his many poems recorded the time,place,characters,storyline and surrounding landscape in detail.His lovers and friends were all included in a specific literary and geographical space,such as Hefei lovers,Mian’e friends,Xiangzhong friends,etc.,which became the most important text to explore his life history.The geographical and spatial meanings in Jiang Kui’s poems are colorful.First of all,we can see the course of his entire life only from his poem text.There are also a lot of documentary place names in the poems,which is a supplement to the lack of historical books.Exploring the origin of these place names can help us fully understand the connotation of his poems.Secondly,Jiang Kui’s selection and description of animal and plant geographical images and regional geographical images have unique friendship colors and geographic colors.The content and purpose of his creation are mainly praising geographic objects,supplemented by lyrical expressions;on the other hand,he can analyze his transformation process of turning geographic objects from "passive" to "active".In the end,his poems and poems present multi-level literary space meanings and friendship space characteristics.From these two layers of space,through his virtual or real text,we can see Jiang Kui’s real life experience,and know the way he made friends between private houses and public spaces.