Poetry Criticism Of Tao Yuanming And Poetics In Song Dynasty

Tao Yuan ming's poems are regarded by the past literator after Jin Dynasty, especially have important effects on poetry development of Song Dynasty. At the same time, the comments of Tao Yuan ming's poems are important parts of Chinese Literary Criticism, they are not only the course that Tao Yuan ming's poems be understood and advanced, but important exhibition of poetics purport of eras.Chinese Ancient Literary Theory has close connection with Literary Criticism; idiographic poetical criticism is important exhibition of poetics idea, and important literature foundation to explore ancient poetics. To explore some poetical criticism of famous poet can realize the important problem and character of poetics. The comments of Tao Yuan ming's poems are abundant, the people of Song Dynasty put forward some important poetics problem through thoughts of the comments, and embody the aesthetic purport of "Ziran Pingdan". This paper tries to sum up the poetics theme through seeing about the comments of Tao Yuan ming's poems, to explore the inner contact between the comments of Tao Yuan ming's poems and the poetics construction of Song Dynasty, to study the aesthetic purport.This paper is divided into four parts:Part One, describes the comments of Tao Yuan ming's poems before Pre-Song period. The comments of Tao Yuan ming's poems are few and not good, it is connected with the purport that go in for tone and literary grace; the comments of Tao Yuan ming's poems are many and the status of Tao Yuan ming's poems is elevated, it reflects the recognition of content and artistic conception, and the aesthetic pursue of "Zhili Ziran".Part Two, clears up the datum of the Song's comments of Tao Yuan ming's poems, abstracts the concerns of four poetics theme of "Poetry pay attention on 'Nature'", " Poetry is excellent on 'Poetic Flavor'", "One integrated mass", "Pingdan". First, the people of Song Dynasty pay more attention to the poetical style of "Ziran", and analyze it from the idealistic basis and language and so on; second, the theory of "Poetic Flavor" had been a long time, the people of Song Dynasty endowed it new connotation; third, the ambit of "One integrated mass" is attended in Tang Dynasty, and considered abroad; last, the comments of Tao Yuan ming's poems regard the aesthetic purport of "Pingdan".Part Three, analyze the basic poetics problems that reflect from the the comments of Tao Yuan ming's poems. Through the comments of "Poetic Flavor", "Yun", "Metaphor with Buddhist Thinking" , "Qu", this part tries to analyze the special meaning of these categories. In these categories, "Poetic Flavor", "Yun", "Qu" had been for a long time, but its meaning get more development in the process of Literary Criticism, and add some new poetics ideas and aesthetic features in Song Dynasty. "Metaphor with Buddhist Thinking" is a new poetics category that come into being in Song Dynasty, and become a kind of fashion, it is the combination of Chinese ancient Zen thoughts and poetics thought of "insight", it uses some concepts of Zen to study and criticize poems , illuminates the special aesthetical feature of poem visually.Part Four, analyze the comments of Tao Yuan ming's poetical aesthetic style and aesthetic purport of "Pingdan" that reflects on the comments. On the one hand, it can explain the establishment of Tao Yuan ming's poetical aesthetic style of "Ziran Pingdan"; on the other hand, it makes clear the connotation of aesthetic purport of "Pingdan".In a word, the prosperity of Tao Yuan ming's poetical comment has a close connection of poetical aesthetic style of Song Dynasty. Through the analysis of them, we can find the special poetics thought and aesthetic purport of Song Dynasty.