A Study Of Shi Lin's Poetic Theory And Poetic Creation

Ye Mengde, a typical scholar-bureaucrat around the transit period from the North Song Dynasty to South Song Dynasty, is an official, poet, Ci composer and scholar as well, and he owns himself a name in nearly all these fields. His creation of Ci is known by later generations, but at the same time his poetic theory and poems are ignored for a long time.The Jiangxi Poetic style prevails in the times when Ye Mengde lives, but as its development, some disadvantages are found in the poetic theory of Jiangxi Poetic School. Shi Lin's poetic theory brings forward some valuable advises on lacks of the poetic theory of Jiangxi Poetic School, and those advises have affected the development of Song poetry. At the same time, notes on poets and poetry of Shi Lin which express Shi Lin's poetic theory together have gradually broken away from the conventional mode whose primary method,is narrating poets' stories and doing textual research on literary quotations, and started to make poetic art itself as research object of poetic theory which has taken far-reaching effect on latter notes on poets and poetry.The times when Ye mengde lives is a time of troubles, and the North Song Dynasty declines day by day. At last, the North Song Dynasty has been captured by the army of Jing Dynasty and has to migrate to the southern China. At that time, the nation is in crisis and the people are uprooted by the war. As an official, YeMengde's life is full of ups and downs. All of those adventures has been poured out in his poems.Living sufficiently on the basis of the ample materials, the writer wishes to talk about Shi Lin's poetic theory and his poetic creation: Firstly, the author probes into Shi Lin's ideological trend and creative mind which influences his poetic theory and poetic creation, through his background, official career and position in rivalry between different parties; Secondly, mostly from notes on poets and poetry of Shi Lin and partly from his other works, the author engages in the study of his essential creative theories; Thirdly, through the poems producing in the gloaming of Shi Lin's life which we can see even now, the author wants to reveal the ideological content and artistic style of Shi Lin's poems.At the moment, the study of Shi Lin's poetic theory and his poetry is still deficient in the academic circles, so the writer wishes to arouse the further concern of academic circles with this article, and the fresh field of vision and territory will be opened up through our abecedarian efforts.