The Research About Qiao Yu’s Poetry

Qiao Yu was the famous poet in the middle age of Ming dynasty. He is between LiDongyang and the former seven. He and the followers of Chaling School werecontemporaries. Scholars believe that he was only the follower of Chaling School. There isno specialized research on himself and his poetics.During the research into his poetry, as can be seen roughly change the trajectory of hispoetic style.He was an early follower of Li Dongyang and Yang Yiqing. Qiao Yu and ShaoBao expaned the prestige of Li Dongyang’s retro theory. Then retro theory influencedmany writers’ style of poetry. When Li Mengyang appeared in the literary world, poetryretro became a trend. The substance of Qiao Yu’s literary views during the early period,was unified the literary and doctrine. The content of his poetry is real life, to expose thepolitical abuse. After been a official in Nanjing, there was an change of his poetry style. Hehad get rid of the views of poetry retro. There were two aspects in his poetry. One iscritical of the government and political, the other one is description of the landscape.Living a secleded life is his highest state of happiness. When he lived in seclusion,description of natural scenery and idyllic life became the main content of his poetry. Hewas expert in using the plain, natural language to create the artistic conception of poetry.The style of his poetry had an affect on a lot of northern writers.Qiao Yu is regarded as a transitional poet between Chaling School and the formerseven. This viewpoint is the respect for the development history of literature. That wouldcontribute to understand the trend in development of poetry in the middle Ming Dynasty.The consideration of later period of his poetry creation would be contribute to recognizethe aesthetic value of his poetry from the sense of literature.