Yang Wanli's Poetic Imagery Research

Wanli Yang is one of the most important poets and the member of Resurgence of the four poets in the Song Dynasty, his most important poetic achievement was Chengzhai style. If we retrieve his more than four thousand poems, we will see that, his most obvious interest rooted in the description of the numerous plants which reflected Wanli Yang's pursuit of poetics and other aspects of personality, such as personality, aesthetic attitude and so on.The plant images in Wanli Yang's poetry is rich in variety and large in quantity, that is similar to the Complete Poetry of the Tang Dynasty, and they almost cover all aspects of the life of the people in the Song Dynasty. And his thematic plants poems' richness of the subject matter, the absolute number and the proportion of the total number of individual poems are far more important than the important writers in the contemporary era. This is the overall features of the Chengzhai style which has the pursuit of lively and interesting, and that also contacts with the rhyme creation. Wanli Yang's pen plant materials main source in the garden of landscape gardening, traveling, streams and pastoral village life, each of which contains a poet's different aesthetic orientation and emotional sustenance. His plants of writing has its unique feature on the skills of rhetoric, in textual rhetoric is mainly reflected in plant imagery in a variety of combinations, in rhetoric words is reflected in the refinement of quantifier and vocabulary appraise color usage etc, application specific to speech, the biggest bright spot is highlighting the subjectivity of the plants, and human equality and dynamic through personification. Wanli Yang's plants images are numerous, maple, bamboo and mandala image have certain representative:the dual role of poetical pursuit and personality completed his transformation of traditional tragic color of maple image; true portrayal of bamboo "joint" is Wanli Yang's proudly character; as mandala, Wanli Yang is one of the early writers writing mandala, who played an important role in the rise and blooming of the mandala literature.