| Death is an unsurmountable abyss of pain in each person’s life,and the feeling of mourning and sacrifice is an important part of each individual’s emotional world.Since ancient times,many scholars and scholars have put sorrow and sorrow into mourning poems to relieve their inner sufferings.Therefore,the true feelings revealed in mourning poems and the exploration and understanding of the meaning of life are incomparable to poems of any subject matter.After the Ancient Prose Movement in the Tang Dynasty,the poetry circle in the Northern Song Dynasty launched the poetry innovation movement under the leadership of Ouyang Xiu and Mei Yaochen.Due to the death of his wife,children and friends one after another,Mei Yaochen created a large number of mourning poems,which covered a wide range of mourning types,the number of which is almost unparalleled among poets in the Northern Song Dynasty.Mei yaochen,as the founder of the song poetry,integrated the idea of "taking prose as poetry" into the writing of mourning poems,which had the distinctive characteristics of the song poetry and formed a style different from the mourning poems before the song dynasty.This paper is divided into four chapters to discuss Mei Yaochen’s mourning poems.The first chapter mainly discusses the emergence and development of mourning poetry before the Song Dynasty,and makes a relatively clear combing and summarizing for the development of mourning poetry.The second chapter mainly analyzes the classification of Mei Yaochen’s mourning poems and their emotional orientation in detail.His poems are mainly divided into mourning for friends,mourning for the death,mourning for children and other kinds of mourning.The types cover a relatively complete range,and generally present the emotional characteristics of true feelings,frank and outspoken.The third chapter mainly discusses the characteristics of Mei Yaochen’s mourning poems.This paper mainly explores the characteristics of poetry from three aspects: expression technique,ideological connotation and artistic skills.He inherited the lyric mode of mourning poems before the Song Dynasty and further developed the artistic skills of combining the virtual and the real on the basis of Yuan Zhen.On the other hand,different from the "plain" style of Mei Poems in general,his mourning poems,in their plain and sincere language,contain strong and profound yearning and fierce and bitter political satire on injustice.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the influence of Mei Yaochen’s mourning poems in the Song Dynasty.This paper selects the representative of Su Shi and Lu You in the poetry circles of the Song Dynasty to find the relationship between them and Mei Yaochen’s mourning poems.This proves that in the history of mourning literature,mei yaochen is a link between the past and the future after yuan zhen,su shi and lu you,and his mourning poems can not be ignored in the history of mourning poems. |
