On The Landscape Poetry Of The Late Tang Dynasty

The landscape poetry had a long history in our country and there were lots of verses in the book of songs describing landscape. But these songs were not landscape poetry in real meaning, because these Landscape was only functioned as metaphor and innitiation in the verses. It was not until Xieling-yun emerged in southern Dynasty that did mark the birth of landscape poetry. Since the birth of landscape poetry ,it had been developed for more than two hundred years. And reach the summit in flourishing age of Tang Dynasty and finally a creative school, landscape and pastoral poetry school, was come into being . But when landscape poetry advanced by late Tang Dynasty .it displayed some features utterly different with poetry of early and middle Tang Dynasty in respect of its content and artistic style . The content of landscape poetry in late Tang Dynasty is that it permeated with implication that singing of historical personages or events and meditating on the past; filled with Buddhism connotation; expressing bleak and indifferent feeling and thought primarily. In artistic respect it displayed such features as below: written with strict tonal patterns and rhyme schemes primarily and free old style poetry less in form; apparently reserved in content; filled with bleak and declined character in artistic style .The writer contend that the landscape poetry of late Tang Dynasty served as a link between past and future had played an important role in history of poetry being an important sector of landscape poetry. So we must set a proper value on poetry in late Tang Dynasty...