Dali Jiangnan Poets The Art Of Poetry

This thesis takes the society dozens of years after the "An Lushan & Shi Siming's Rebellion" in Tang Dynasty as the background characteristic of times and puts research focus on those poets together with their poetry arts, who were living in Jiangnan (the South of the Changjiang River). From the angles of the constitution of the groups and the features, the author expounds the Poets in Jiangnan in Dali Time (Dali is the emperor's reign title at that time.) and analyzes the poets' poetry arts in various angles. In this way the author tries to reveal the writing styles and features expressed during the collision and combination between the time and the hearts of the poets. This thesis consists of two parts: Part One mainly deals with the problem whether the title "the Poets in Jiangnan in Dali Time" is reasonable by observing and studying the poets' traces and friends; in Part Two, the author begins with the images, the lyrics and the forms. On the base of these, the author analyzes the poetry arts of the Poets in Jiangnan. In the chapter " the World of Images", the author reveals the rich but calm image world between lines in the poems through the three types of images (i.e. the natural images, the psychologist images and the humanist images) and the clear and stable natures expressed via the types of images. According to the Poets in Jiangnan, the emphasis of the arts of lyrics was put on the calm and unhurriedness character and the distinguished pursuit to apply various linguistic means for creating a kind of atmosphere filled with emotion. In the forms, the Poets in Jiangnan not only inherited and developed the traditional poetry forms like wulu (eight-line poems with five characters to each line and a strict tonal pattern and rhyme scheme) and wujue (four-line poems with five characters to each line and a strict tonal pattern and rhyme scheme), but also made numerous trial in the poetry forms with distinguished regional features like wuti. Meanwhile, the poets made helpful research in "liuyanti (poems with six characters to each line)" and "changduanju(dass\c poetry consisting chiefly of seven-character lines interspersed with shorter or longer ones) ". Just with the artist achievements mentioned above, the Poets in Jiangnan in Dali time established their position in literary history.