The Study Of Hu Tianyou

Hu Tianyou was a famous poet of the Yuan Dynasty.He was born in a well-known family that had a long history and a profound culture.Inspired by his family's cultural background,and his willingness was to get an official career through the imperial examinations,he had studied fairly hard to transform his aspirations into realities.However,he did not get official career,and finally he chose seclusion at the end of Yuan Dynasty.He mainly lived in Pingjiang,Hunan,where he had various friends,such as state officials,farmers,monks,taoists,tailors,and so on.With the fact that he was not born in a good era and that his dreams were difficult to achieve,he sent all his sorrows into his poetry.His poetry is completely profound that it is collected into Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature.What his poetic thoughts conveys is the sorrow of life experiences,the arrogant feelings of keeping his own way,the grievance of war-torn reality,the aspiration of wanting to save the common people,and the desire of pursuing a free and easy lifestyle,and so on.While in terms of artistic features,his poetry is famous for a self-willed and sincere lyrical way,a skillful and ingenious rhetorical approach,a changeable and harmonious constitution,a tragic and intense poetic style.In addition,his two articles have rich ideological contents and high artistic features.