On The Poetry Of Stone Forest

Since there haven't been any essays about the comprehensive study of Ye Mengde yet, in this dissertation, I try to analyze Ye Mengde's all poems, Ci and the poetry theory with Ye's deeds in order to obtain the whole knowledge of Ye in the literary field. On one hand, I research the independent elements and features of the three mentioned aspects; especially evaluate his untouched poems objectively. On the other hand, I seek the relations among his literary works, his thoughts and his official career.This dissertation includes three parts: Ye's deeds, Ye's poems & Ci and Ye's poetry theory.In the first part, I divide Ye's official career into five phases and conclude the features of every phase. On the base of that, I analyze some individual problems.In the second part, I study Ye's poems and Ci respectively. On his poems, I reorder them according to the time first. Then I analyze the different kinds of his poems in order to conclude their features and his thoughts behind them. Compared with his poems, his Ci is more extensive. So I pay more attention to his Ci's variety of artistic styles, which are quite special compared with other writers. Because Ye's life and thoughts affected his art works a lot, I try to seek the reasons and the driving force behind his works. Since the number of his works is limited, what I try to discuss is not only the style of them, but the value of them as well. Through that, I lay stress on the relation of the historical facts and his works.Since more scholars have paid attention to his poetry theory, I analyze the details of his theory carefully, and then clarify the relation between his works and his theory.I hope my essay can help the research of Ye Mengde.