The Analysis Of The Poetry Of Wen Tingjun

Wen Tingjun, who is expert in a variety of creative work in Late Tang, is mostfamous for his poetry,fiction and p'ien-wen. The achievement of his poetry is thehighest because Wen Tingjun's poetry has the innovation and his musical conservatorypoem and the modern style poetry are different from the traditional poetry, which isrelated to his creation tendency that inverse from poetry to songsi. Wen Tingjun hasthe title of"Huajian originator"and in his lifetime he creates about 680 poetries,which have established the style of his creation. Besides, he also excels to make Fu,which is recorded in "Jiu Tang Shu·Wen Yuan Zhuan·Wen Tingjun", "Bei Meng SuoYan" and "Tang Yan". According to " Jiu Tang Shu·Wen Yuan Zhuan·Li Shangyin",Wen Tingjun, Duan Chengshi and Li Shangyin share the honor of"thirty-six"together,from which we can see that Wen, Li and Duan are all good at making Fu, thereforeeach of them is called sixteen, and they three are then called"thirty-six". In addition,Wen Tingjun also have the Collection of short stories, but lots of them are lost duringthe process of spread and only exists 33 integral novels by now.Previous dynasties there are always officials in Wen Tingjun's family , it's thedriving force that make Jun want to enter the political stratum positively. However,restricted by the location time, late Tang declined day after day, people who has telentdoes not have the space to display. Wen Tingjun is not only a individual contribution,but also a typical microcosm of this class of people in that background. Person of thistime pay more attentions to look after themselves. The formation of the creation styleof one poet is affected by his own characteristics and Features of his times. This articlefocus on the analysis of Wen Tingjun's poetry and will classify Jun's poetry, by whichattempts to explore its intrinsic essence relates between his creation works.This article is carried out from two angles. On the one hand concerns on theanalysis of Jun's poetry, and altogether selects 24 representative poetries, includingnine musical conservatory poetries and fifteen modern style poetries. The elaboration of his poetry divides into two chapters. The first chapter elaborates Wen Tingjun'smusical conservatory poem, which divides into three parts. Wen Tingjun's musicalconservatory poem accounts for one third of his poetry and he also has the innovationbased on the ancient musical conservatory poem. What this chapter analyzes is threekinds of poetry which has the characteristic of the generation. It's the late Tang societythat causes the poet pay more attention to historical, love and the nature. Thedisappoint to realistic causes the historical recollections, the feeling of bleak causesthe desire for love, the social agitation causes the nostalgic to the nature .Jun's poetrydoesn't judge the past from the political angle to satirizes the society, but is focus onthe dissipated life of the fatuous monarch, which also certificate his longing andexpect to the court life. His frontier fortress poem and love poem pay great attention tothe using of sentences and the flavor of the rhetoric. The description of the bitter life inthe frontier fortress indicates the broad Momentum of his poetry. On the contrary, thelove poem appears to be more melodious and emphasize the characterization of theinnermost feelings of females. Through love poem Jun has laid the foundation for theHuajiansi.Comparing to the other styles of Wen Tingjun's poetry, his modern style poetryand the musical conservatory poem get a relatively high achievement, among those"seven-syllable"poem and"five-syllable"poem is especially higher. The secondchapter is mainly elaborate Wen Tingjun's modern style poetry, the amount of which isabout 250. This chapter is divided into three parts according to the literature style,which includes the history poem, the frontier fortress poem and the love poem as well.The Wen Tingjun's modern style poetry take the buoyancy and fresh as the mainfeature. Compares with his musical conservatory poem, it displays his mature onpoetry creation. The main representative works have "Guo Chenlin Mu", "Guo WuZhang Yuan", "Suwu Miao", "Hui Zhong Zuo", "Yao Pi Yuan" and so on. This chapterselects 14 modern style poetries, but still studied history poem primarily. Generallyspeaking, in Jun's poem he express the desire to become an official, and chanting tothe history also presents his optimistic attitude towards late Tang Dynasty. Compared with Li Shangyin and Du Mu, the despair to the dynasty in his history poem is weaker.Wen Tingjun's frontier fortress poem and the love poem are always beautiful andsmooth, and his musical conservatory is also obviously fresh, at the same time has theSouthern Dynasty musical conservatory folk song's charm. In general, the musicalconservatory poem and the modern style poetry of this two themes have commonfeatures on the fresh language and the rhythm.After analyzing Wen Tingjun's musical conservatory poem and modern stylepoetry, to gain the multi-level information to elaborate its poetry style andcharacteristic, the third chapter will compare Jun with"the poem ghost"Li He on twopoet's life experience,backgrounds and creation style. Through these to summary theinfluence that Li He has on Wen Tingjun. This chapter mainly carries on thecontrastive analysis on the poetries of two persons.The theme selected includes YouXian, Yong Shi, Yong Le and Qi Liang Ti. By making directional analysis on "XiaoXian Yao" and "Meng Tian", "Su Xiaoxiao Ge" and "Su Xiaoxiao Mu", "the GuoChushi Ji Fou Ge" and "Li Ping Konghou Yin", "Hu Yin Ci" and "Yanmen Tai ShouXing", we can reach the conclusion that Wen Tingjun's poetry imatate Li's to a certaindegree. The Wen Tingjun's partial poetry pursue word-formation's novelty, socompared with Li the strange boundary is slightly insufficient. This has certaincontacting with two poet's disposition. Although Wen Tingjun's talent isn't recognizedall his life, he actually has the positive attitude. Li suffered from illness life-long, andthe official career is not suitable, therefore, there're always astringent and strangesentences in the poetries of Li He but it's seldom to be seen in Wen Tingjun's poetries.The language in Jun's poetry is brilliant and the imagination is bold, at the same time,Wen Tingjun makes good use of allusion, so the scene he describes is very vivid,through which the readers feel as if experiences the things themselves.