| Autumn poems are poems that express the feelings of life directly or indirectly through the scenery,products and personnel of autumn.The Tang Dynasty was a period of prosperity for autumn poetry,and Liu Yuxi,with his 111 poems,can be regarded as a great poet of autumn poetry,such as ’Autumn Words’ and ’First Heard the Autumn Wind’.Liu Yuxi was an active and enterprising man with a high degree of political enthusiasm.However,he had a difficult career and was relegated to various places for most of his life.His personality was fierce and he never gave in,always maintaining his image as a fighter.He was a famous reformer and philosopher,and his ideas were at the intersection of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism.Liu Yuxi’s life experiences and personality influenced his autumn poetry.Liu Yuxi’s poems inherited the traditional theme of grief for autumn,using the autumn landscape to express the sadness of deportation,the sorrow of life as the years pass and the longing for friends and relatives in autumn.The poem also explores the theme of joy and celebration of autumn,expressing one’s love for autumn,one’s unyielding spirit and one’s positive outlook on life.Liu Yuxi’s poem uses the rational wisdom of a philosopher to express the philosophical thoughts of life that arise from the autumn landscape.Liu Yuxi’s autumn poems have a unique artistic style.The imagery is rich and distinctive,the most prominent ones being the autumn river,the autumn moon and the autumn cicada.His poems are rich in metaphors,exaggerations and allusions.Liu Yuxi’s autumn poems are both grand and powerful,with a strong backbone and a unique rhythm.Liu Yuxi inherited the tradition of poetry of sadness for autumn and opened up a new field of lyricism in his poems,making celebration of autumn a parallel creative tendency to sadness for autumn.In addition,Liu Yuxi’s autumn poems are invaluable for their adherence to the tradition of lyricism and speech,and thus have irreplaceable literary and historical significance,at a time when poetry was undergoing new changes,and when the tradition of ’literature as poetry’and poetic teaching dominated. |
