A Study Of The Relationship Between The Friendship Of Wei Yingwu And His Poems

As an important poet during the turn of the full Tang and Middle Tang, Wei Yingwu has been generally identified as "has a style of his own", and they take his poems as an apotheoses of the poems and him as a maverick of the contemporary poetic circles. A variety of penetrating discussions on the originality and development of Wei's poems are available. However, most of these exploration focus on its eminence and uniqueness in the Da Li poetic circles, and relative little attention has paid to "the sameness in the variances" under the influence of the Da Li poetic circles. Taking friendship as a basis, this dissertation is designed to investigate the relationship between the friendship of Wei Yingwu and his poems.Chapter One, "Wei Yingwu and his friendship", conducts a systematic exploration into his poet friends in the Da Li poetic circles. To put it into detail, his poet friends are mainly Yong Yuzhi, Qi Wuqian, Zhang Bayuan, Meng Yunqing, Yan Fang and XueJu, and Shi Kongshu from the period of Luo Yang to Jiang Huai(764-773 A.D.), Chang Dang, Xia Housheng, Ji Zhongfu, Yao Xi, Yang ling and Liu Wan during the period of Chang'an to Chu Zhou(774—783 A.D.),and Gu Kuang, Liu Taizhen, Qiu Dan, Qing Xi, Meng Jiao, Jiao Ran during the period of Jiang Zhou to Su Zhou(784—791 A.D.). With a survey of Wei's visits and traveling with his poet friends, this dissertation tries to reveal the possible influences of the friendship on the theme, style of Wei's poems.Chapter Two, "the friendship with the monks" elaborates on the friendship with Buddhists of various schools as well as with the monks, his visits to the Buddhist and Taoist temples and his researches into the Buddhist and Taoist classics. Citing Wei's poems, this study probes into the influence of these experiences on Wei's living habits, aesthetic sentiments and his thinking style, and so on.Chapter three, "the influence of the friendship on Wei's poems", presents an overall analysis of the influence of the friendship on Wei's poems based on the first two chapters, including the influence on the theme(the actualization and naturalization of the themes), style(plain, light, elegant and novel), tone (grievous and sentimental, miserable and cold in color), images (the ding, the water and the moon, the clouds and the setting sun), and so on.