On The Tone Of The Tang Poetry Of Sorrow

The Middle Tang Dynasty poets who faced the dilapidated mountains and rivers in the war ,desolate homeland ,grievous part ,can not sing the merry songs that they sang in the period of liberal politics ,stable society ,prosperous economy. The ideal gave way to the reality. The harsh reality intruded into the world of literature.So the Middle Tang Dynasty poems divided into two opposing extremes.The sound of distress became the keynote of the whole age. Seeing from the creations process,the sound of distress experienced three stages.Because of three stages,gave us a brief account of Middle Tang Dynasty poems′development track.A large number of poems that the poets created made Middle Tang Dynasty poems become three types: the worry about the common people′ssufferings,the depression of disappointing scholarly honor,the sigh of frustrating official career.The three category types were the performance of poets′anxieties about country and people.Moreover, the sound of distress attained high achievement It used thought description, various imageries, psychological depict.The means of artistic expression emerge the brilliance of the Middle Tang Dynasty poems for us.As a epochal creation keynote, the sound of distress about the Middle Tang Dynasty poems had something to do with the social background. The changes of the times and the wounds of the society were main factors. At the same time, the transformation of social culture and intensification of the contradictions also take effect on poems. Finally, the consequence which the changes of the times and the transformation of social culture brought produced a bad influence on poets′psychology. All of these made the sound of distress about Middle Tang Dynasty poems appeared inevitably.A great deal of emergence of the sound of distress inheritted and expanded former literature tradtion.It also brought important influence on future literature creations. Meanwhile, It made literature type diversified. And it also made the sound of distress become a kind of canonical former. At the same time, the sound of distress,with great deal of creations, revealed a close relation between"poor"on life and"work"on literature.In the history of ancient theoretical criticism, the Middle Tang Dynasty established an idea about the sound of distress. As a result, it had an important meaning in literary history.