Stduy On Nothern Song Dynasty Bird Poem

Birds was the targets of Bird Poetry, which was one kind of Yongwu Poetry. The main content of Bird Poetry were depicted birds’feather, twitter, sight and living habits, and expressed poetic feelings by metaphor. According to Entire Song Poem, the number of Bird Poetry is very large. There were about 700 poem titles and 800 poems just in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was far more than the Tang Dynasty’s, even more than the whole bird poems of the Tang Dynasty and Pre-Tang. Northern Song Dynasty With its various style and wide range contents, bird poems in the Northern Song Dynasty were the results of the poets’ original creation.Northern Song Dynasty Bird Poem has traits on the description of birds:Bird feather, posture and bird tweet are often described in these poems by poets. First, the poetic circles spared no effort to portray the feathers, and pay more attention to the colors especially yellow and white. Second, the poetic circles appreciated the strong,vigorous, bold, powerful and fast of the raptorial birds, such as eagle and falcon and so on. But to crane and egret which belong to grallatores, the poetic circles liked their scraggy body which can fit their taste. Third, the description of bird tweet was not only concentrated on warbler sing but also cranes’whoops and geese chirping. Northern Song Dynasty Bird Poem also has traits on creation mode. First of all, birds chant just focused on objective birds without vlog. Second, expressing poets emotion was chant’s goal. From this mode, the poets used birds to express their true feelings that the impression of space and time and the sorrow of homesickness. The next mode is to express aspiration, which show us poets was longed freedom. The last one is turned to revealing some truths, which is the most feature one. In these poems, poets derive society truth from birds by their careful observation and seriously exploration.Moreover, from Northern Song Dynasty Bird Poem, we can explore the relationship between the literary and birds. Before proceeding, the birds were classified to three kinds: fictitious birds as culturalicon, birds were seen in nature and pet birds. Among the three kinds, pet birds as playmates, the medium of contact and poetry theme is the best relationship with literary.The poems which gratitude for presenting crane, as a basic study with the foundation of the whole Northern Song Dynasty bird poems, was grown out of a quite usual present-giving custom between friends of literary men to express gratitude to the crane-sender in the Song Dynasty. This kind of poetry not only had their own artistic, but also embodied the special significance of sending a crane in the Song Dynasty.