A Study Of Peng Sunyi's Poetry

The end of Ming dynasty and the beginning of Qing dynasty are historical periods of changeable situation.The great political turbulence brought by the changes of dynasties had a great impact on the destiny of the country and the people.Peng Sunyi was a poet and scholar in the end of Ming and early Qing dynasty.The war not only destroyed his family,but also changed his life.His poetry is a mirror of his tragic fate.This paper is divided into five parts to study Peng Sunyi's poems.The first chapter mainly investigates Peng Sunyi's life and social intercourse.Peng Sunyi was born in a family of civil and military officials and his forefathers all held high positions in the Ming dynasty.The war in the end of Ming dynasty changed the fate of his family,a number of his uncles and brothers lost their lives in the war,his father also died in the war against the soldiers.Peng Sunyi then chose to be a hermit with loyalty and filial piety for more than 20 years.He mainly associated with people who are loyal,filial and righteous.After middle age,he approached Buddhism and Taoism,and had many exchanges with monks.The second chapter mainly discusses Peng Sunyi's mental journey from Ming dynasty to Qing dynasty,in his youth,Peng Sunyi was ambitious and devoted to his country.Facing the change of the situation at the end of Ming dynasty,his heart was filled with the fear of uncertainty.After entering the Qing dynasty,his body and mind experienced the pain and suffering of his family and country.He faced the entanglement between poor and prosperity,and the battle between poverty and disease.In the difficult life,he was accompanied by poetry,wine and Buddha,and obtained the salvation of his soul.The third chapter probes into the writing of life experience in Peng Sunyi's poems,and through the analysis of landscape poems,documentary poems and drift-themed poems,we studies the theme orientation of Peng Sunyi's poems.Peng Sunyi's poems during his youth showed his leisurely daily life and the pleasure of traveling between mountains and rivers.In the late Ming dynasty,Peng Sunyi experienced peasant wars and natural disasters.At this time,his poems reflected the hardship of the people's life in the late Ming dynasty and the displacement of the people in the peasant war.At the beginning of the Qing dynasty,his family was broken and his father was martyred,his poems reflect the wars of the Ming and Qing dynasties and the ups and downs in the search for his father.The fourth chapter discusses the evolution of Peng Sunyi's poetry style.In his early days,Peng Sunyi's poems about traveling in the mountains and rivers showed a leisurely and elegant poetic style.In the middle period,after the transformation of the country and the death of his father,the poems at that time showed the characteristics of melancholy,sadness and stirring,and were full of the pain of the country and the sadness of the death of his father.In his later years,the poet lived a quiet and peaceful life and was influenced by Buddhist thoughts.His poems are characterized by tranquility and detachment.Chapter five discusses the literary significance of Peng Sunyi's poems.Peng Sunyi experienced the vicissitudes of the Ming and Qing dynasties,and his poems reflected the wars in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and the sufferings of people's families.In the face of national humiliation and family hatred,Peng Sunyi chose to be a hermit.His life was a reflection of the fate of numerous literati in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.His poems are the epitome of inner struggle and conflict of adherents in the late Ming dynasty.