Four Outstanding Poets And New Changes Of The Poems In The Early Tang Period

In the article it analyses the creative characteristics and achievement in poems of the four outstanding poets, proceeding from the political situation and cultural atmosphere in the early Tang period. It also manages to discover the evolution orbit of poems through the individual study of the outstanding poets and searches for the poetry's spirit of the Tang period 梩he cause of the Tang Yin's formation and finally explores the law of the development of Chinese poetry.In the Gaozong period, the free and somewhat luxurious cultural atmosphere,which shows great impact on scholars, makes literature as a recreation day by day.At the same it makes literature free from political influence gradually to obtain anew lease of life. The struggle between virtue and literature makes the fouroutstanding poets in the dilemma of being an official or a hermit and causes theirlife tragedy at last but brings up a generation of great poets as well. The fouroutstanding poets achieve their literary success by carrying forward and discardingthe predecessors' achievement. The four outstanding poets have a thousand and onelinks with the palace poets Shang Guanyi and Xu Jingzong in the Longshuo period.The Shangguan style and Xu Jingzong poetry are the useful attempt for literature toembody the spirit of the times in the new historical conditions. From antithesis andBixing technique to artistic spirit , they all show some influence on the fouroutstanding poets.The four outstanding poets reform the prototype of the poems set to music and change the attitude of dallying with women, and eulogize the sincere and equal love and raise the taste of the poems set to music. In the artistic characteristics, under the influence of Fu, the poem set to music of the four outstanding poets has the characteristics of poems mingled with Fu: great length, exquisite description, tremendous momentum and ornate diction. In using rhyme, the rhyme sentences are more used with verse penetrating into the LuShi. Their Wuyan verses have a varietyof subjects and make poems do out of the palace and into the lower class and the frontier. The four outstanding poets compose the poems for seeing off and yearning for friends in the mood of traveling men and their poems are full of true feelings. Their frontier poetry, filled with bold and unconstrained feelings, carry forward the tradition of Yangsu and others in the Sui dynasty. In their poems, the descending in describing scenery and unique visual angle in finding views promote the formation of the poetry's integrated artistic conception of the early Tang period.The poetry of the early Tang period experiences a spiral development. The cultural characters of the Tang dynasty of which Taizong is in pursuit begin to take shape only in the period of the four outstanding poets after Shang Guanyi and Xu Jingzong.