The Study On Sentimental Poems Of Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi was a great poet. He was known to every household. His sentimental poems were outstanding in all his poems.From the point of subject, sentimental poems can use the explanation of Bai Juyi himself"objects were effected by outside, feelings in the heart"two types. The first type can be divided into"on outside thing"and"on outside things"two types. The second type can be divided into"feeling"and"theory"two kinds. In his 201 sentimental poems, most of them were subjects of feelings. This reflected personality and character of Bai Juyi"He was good at poetry and passionate."It also indicated that sentimental poems were poems which were emphasized on feelings in the heart. Next was the sentimental effected by outside objects. To a poet full of affection everything in nature can touch his feelings.He was also sensitive to departing meeting in life. Besides there were some poems explaining theories, although they were less percent in the whole. The particular explanation subjects were very important in order to grasp Bai Juyi's sentimental poems and his thought.As"Writing poems when a poet had thought", sentimental poems, BaiJuyi put forward his real feelings and thought to readers. It includes: Firstly, he felt depressed and constrained when he was a government official."Adopting family tradition"and"Serving the country"was his ideal. So Bai Juyi was very depressed and helpless. Secondly, solitude and changeable of life experience: Bai Juyi was solitude when he was young. He was weak and always was sick. He was away from home and families when he was banished. He felt constrained in life. Bai Juyi lost his families frequently. He departed friends more and met them less. Thirdly, he realized the theory of nature, but his ideas were contradictory. Sentimental poems expressed his feelings and also reflected his ideas on theory. He knew the theory of nature on birth, death, old, sickness, spring, autumn etc. At the same time, he felt distressed. This was Bai Juyi's real thought that his ideas were mixed up with Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.The artistic characteristics of sentimental poems of Bai Juyi were firstly in keeping with his friend Yuan Zhen's evaluation:"His poems were very suitable to express his feelings."Secondly, as Bai Juyi's poetic theory"poems should be rooted of feelings."His poems were full of his real feelings in his life experience in society. At last, all the readers realized the characteristic of"tender and gentle"in his sentimental poems.Sentimental poems also had shortcomings of repetition, plain and trivialities as his poems of other subjects. From the point of sentimental poems themselves, they had the shortcoming of less profound because of expressing feelings at will. All of these are problems we are unavoidable.