A Study Of Yang Wanli’s Yongwu Poems

This article studies on Yang Wanli’s YongWu poems.The subject areas areastronomical,plants,animals and the artifacts,which are the main content of the poetry.Theauthor on the Study Object body content write appearance or making use of objects to expressideas.In the development stage,there are four phrases in Yang Wanli’s reface of his collectionof poems.In the latter two phrases,he always describe all things in the natural world,so it’s theImportant phrase of the stduy. The theme of Yang Wanli’s YongWu poems is widely and thequantity is numerous, this article divides it into three types:those with the description ofsubjects,lyrics with the description of subjects and those implicating philosophy in thepresentation of subjects.This essay analyses materials,language style and imagery of Yongwu poems written byYang Wanli. These are all pesernoal characteristic of Yang Wanli’s Yongwu poems. It isrelated to his observation of natural world and his goal to get rid of restriction of poeticschool of Jiangxi and seek self style. Yang Wanli is not only a poet but also a neo-confucian,which impacts on his innovation shown on his Yongwu poems. He observed the naturalworld with a neo-confucian perspective and expressed his impressions with poet’saesthetic language. That’s the reason that he created so many outstanding Yongwu poems.He obtained knowledge by investigation of things and established a new type ofthings-persons relationship.