The Study Of Ouyang Xiu's Poetry

Ouyang Xiu is a very famous scholar who has established a special style in chinese literature history. He has successfully led the reform of literature and poesy in the North Song Dynasty and cultivated wide space for the healthy development of the Song Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu has made great achievement in his own literature inditing and put forward a series of far-reaching literature theory claims to next generation which has cultivated a great many of excellent talents for the literary world of the Song Dynasty. Research about Ouyang Xiu's literature, Ci and poesy has given us a splendid sight. Up to now, all kinds of remarks still emerge one after another. Discussion and analysis about his poesy inditing mostly emphasize particularly on some works or some aspect, but seldom can give a total remark.This research attempts to focus on Ouyang Xiu's poesy inditing, and discus it from thoughts and content, art characteristic and function which played during the development of Song poesy. This research also expresses and analyses the important role as a pioneer and leader Ouyang Xiu has played during the generation process of Song poesy characteristics. Section one of this research focuses on the main content of Ouyang Xiu's poesy. According to the content, Ouyang Xiu's poesy can be divided into four parts to analyze: worrying about the life of the current people, attention to the political abuse, optimistic spirit to the landscape feelings and description to the stories happing at that time. Ouyang Xiu's poesy shows us natural and honesty feelings and changeable content, which can show us new ideas from traditional theme. It inherits the excellent tradition of ancient literature realism inditing and follows the historical tide of the poesy and literature reform, which indicates a good direction for inditing of Song poesy.Section two mainly discuses art characteristics of Ouyang Xiu poesy, which generalized into four characters: profound pattern with new idea, free poem scheme, far-reaching sentiment and cadence, understandable and fluency words. To profound pattern with new idea, this section mainly discuses from far-reaching conception and poet personality. People like to use ancient prose scheme, auxiliary word, preposition, essay syntax and couplet, which is the explanation to free poem scheme in this section. Ouyang Xiu emphasizes on chase of poesy artistic conception beauty and combination of feelings and thoughts, theory and interest, which depicts the third character. To understandable and fluency, this section explains this character from poesy's ease-understanding words and sentences, careful and impersonal controvert, and seldom using of strange allusion. Ouyang Xiu's poesy always brings forth new ideas. Though he inherited a lot from ancient, he didn't simply accept them. He changed them according to his demands and showed us with quite fresh characteristics.Section three mainly discuses and analyzes the role Ouyang Xiu have played in generation of Song poesy new style. It discuses and depicts Ouyang Xiu's prior contribution to generation of Song style from four levels: Ouyang Xiu's personality apotheosis, leading to discussion of poesy, leader's promoting and the sample role of his works.In a word, Ouyang Xiu's poesy shows us colorful content and fresh style. As the leader of the North Song Dynasty poesy and literature reform, Ouyang Xiu played a very important role during the generation and development of Song poesy characteristics.