Humiliation And Chen Yi Poetic Style Changes

Chen Yuyi is an important poet during the transitional period of Southern Song dynasty and Northern Song dynasty. This article tries to explore the causes of Chen Yuyi's poetic style change by investigating the correlation between Jingkang Calamity and Chen's psychological change, which caused the change of his literal allegation, so as to grasp the transformation of his poetry writing and his overall writing style.The article is composed of three chapters:Chapter One: The Jingkang Calamity and Chen Yuyi's psychological transformation as well as the change of his poetic proposition. After the Jingkang Calamity, Chen went to the South China for taking refuge , where he had been floundering for over four years until his arriving at Huiqi. Henceforth he worked as an official for the Southern Song Dynasty. He was in deep sorrow for the ruined country and his eventful life, as a result he turned to be a Zenist. From his poetry and comments, we can see the change of his poetic propositions: from the passion on nature to the plaint of the current situation, from imitating Du Fu's writing techniques to focusing on techniques and ideas as well as contents, from attaching importance to the choice of unique words to the artistic conception of poems, which sympathized with the Jian'an Poetry, and identified with Wang Wei's aesthetic taste.Chapter Two: The change of ideas and contents in Chen's poems. In his early time, he just expressed the loneliness for his low position, the desire of preserving his moral integrity, and the pleasure from nature and travelling. He also wrote some poems concerning national affairs between times. His late poems delivered a complex ofsaving society sentiment of vicissitude, a passion of enjoying mountains and water.Chapter Three: The change of Chen's writing style. Some of his early poems were unique and many allusions were used, some were not as generous as his late works on artistic conceptions. Most poems that describing mountain and water scenery were quite interesting. Among his late works, grand and impassioned poems were outstanding. Also some poems showed different features, i.e., loneness and quiet,...