A Study On Wu Jiaji, An Adherent Poet Of Early Qing Dynasty

Wu Jiaji, a less outstanding adherent poet of early Qing Dynasty, featured his poetry in the "Icy frost holiness and penetrating clearness" style, among which fifteen volumes of Shabby Cabin Eulogy were left. Since the early Qing Dynasty, Wu Jiaji's fame fluctuated now and then. He was luckily listed in the Biographies of Literatuses of Script of Qing Dynasty, while the study on him by later ages is relatively simple and inadequate, and in particular there still exist some blanks, faults and mistakes in the study of his life experience, thought, artistic characteristics etc. This thesis, having fully utilized first-hand resources and referred to related literatures, intended to comprehensively explore Wu Jiaji's life episodes, mental journey, poetic content, artistic feature etc. This thesis was divided into the following five parts.The Introduction part functions as a survey of the history and status quo of the study on Wu Jiaji, and narrates the purpose and significance of the choice of the theme of this thesis.Chapter One explored Wu Jiaji's life and mental journey. In the dynastic change of Ming and Qing, Wu Jiaji's life greatly shifted. He chose the way of " no associating with his contemporaries" and " devotion to poetic creation". This chapter, by combining means of exploration, narration and comment etc., conducted a systematic and authentic study on the changes of Wu Jiaji's life and thought with the aim to exploit the subjective and objective elements underlying his writing style.Chapter Two categorized the study on Wu Jiaji' poetry. One of the features of his artistic writing is fitting the theme and following no set form. He, the literary name Savage, didn't stick to only one school of poem writing but learned extensively. This chapter chiefly analyzed the characteristics and literary connotation of his three kinds of poems, i.e., self-grieving pomes, landscape traveling ones and farewell sustenance ones respectively, and outlined the features and styles of his kinds of poem writings.Chapter Three conducted the study on the achievement of Wu Jiaji's poetry, mainly on such perspectives as style, art of expressing sentiments, language and rhetoric devices. The bleak and depressing tone, blended with versatile styles, and natural depiction are a unique outlook in his poetry.Chapter Four is a synopsis of the status and reputation of Wu Jiaji's poetry. This chapter elaborated primarily the role that Wu Jiaji, as the first salt-field poet played in history. Via the comparison between the two generations of adherent poets in Yuan Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, and the positive and negative appraisals form poetic critics in history, this chapter dwelled on Wu Jiaji's immortal contribution to the poetic altar of Qing Dynasty.