Study Of The Western Jin Dynasty Poetry

Proceeding from Xijin poets' social positions , life conditions, political success, the thesis studies Xijin poetry's success and failure based on the analysis of Xijin poets' features, ideas and personalities. The thesis reveals: Xijin poets are mainly made up of people from lower class. They're influenced and encouraged by the policy of " promoting the lower class" at the time. Therefore they devote themselves to cultivating Confusian's morality and writing poetry-verses in the hope of accomplishing political success and fame, which not only makes them quite different from Weijin's metaphysical poets in ideas and way of life, but also has great impact on their literary ideas. They go with the change of idealogical mode in the society, emphasizing on the expression of non-political feeling, and fit in with the advocation of the Court, pursuing the style of classic elegance in poetry's creation. In their poems, they also give consideration to political idealogy , which forms a sharp contrast with their advocation of expressing non-political fee'ling in theory , showing the conplex relationship between literary creation and society. In the later period of Xijin , because of the wars chao and social turbulence , the poets' enthusiasm for political success and fame is fading away. They return and confine themselves to their personal lives, either engrossing themselves in studying ancient books and records or withdrawing from the society. Due to the lesser influence by the outside factors, the poetry's creation regresses to the expression of self-emotions again. Consequently.the poetry's style in the later period of Xijin is either impassioned or natural, which is strikingly different from the elegant style in the earlier period of the time.