A Study On Wang Yucheng's Shangzhou Poetry

Wang Yucheng's work is very important in Song Dynast' literary. Before been relegeted, Yuxi Wang studied a lot of the Yuanhe syle entertainment hybrid poem and singing poem from Bai Juyi. While after relegation, he mainly studied the satire style which been created by Bai Juyi before his relegation. What is the reason? Is it just a coincidence or it has some inevitable reasons? The author believes that the indicidual's fortune is a miniature of the time; while the literature master recorded the creater's character, feelings; and is thus a indicidual history. This thesis try to analysis the history treand of the early Song dynasty and its affection on social and literuare creation, through the discription of the transforation of the poem style before and after Yuxi Wang's relegation; and the discussion of the reason.This paper is divided into three parts. Firstly, gives a brief summary of Wang Yucheng's three demotion experiences. Based on the first demotion, it elaborates the differences of the poetic creation before and after the demotion. On discussing the poems of Shangzhou, the paper expands on the two sides of content change and the style change. Later, it discusses the significance of the Shangzhou poems on Wang Yucheng's personal poetic creation and the poem history: it emphasizes that the literature has the independent value; returns to the tradition of "poems express will" and emphasizes the educational role of the poems; rises from emulating Bai juyi's style to emulating Dufu's style; develops the rational quality of the ancient-style poetry.When specifically discussing the influence of the Shangzhou demotion on Wang Yucheng's poetic creation, this paper further investigates the reason of the forming of the poetic style, at the same time inquires the difference between the poetic creation in his demotion period and the Yuan Bai's demotion literature. The author thinks that Wang Yucheng is different from Yuan Bai's demotion poets, there are three reasons: 1. commoners entered the civil official troop. 2. the freedom of speech and liberal politics. 3 .character features of himself.