1, Lin Yutang's evaluation of Su Shi is:
Su Dongpo is a hopeless optimist, a great humanist, a friend of the people, a great writer, a great calligrapher, an innovative painter and an experimenter in wine making.
An engineer, a puritan hater, a yogi, a Buddhist, a great Confucian politician, an emperor's secretary, Brewmaster, a kind judge and a political opponent.
Astronaut, poet, clown. But this is not enough to tell the whole story of Su Dongpo. Su Dongpo has a more versatile sense of genius than other poets in China.
Sense of change and sense of humor, excellent intelligence, but the mind is like a naive child-this mixture is equal to what Jesus called the wisdom of snakes plus the gentleness of pigeons.
2. Qian Mu's evaluation of Su Shi is:
Su Dongpo's poems are great because he has never been politically proud in his life. He was down and out all his life, and all the twists and turns were seen in the poem. However, Su Dongpo's Confucian realm is not high, but his personality is great in the harsh environment elsewhere.
Like his part in Huangzhou and later in Huizhou and Qiongzhou. At that time, all the poems were good, but once they were at ease, some of them were not, and the poetic environment was sometimes conventional. The strength of Dongpo's poetry lies in its lofty sentiments and interest. Its quietness is not as good as that of a king, and its loyalty is not as good as that of a king.
Extended data:
The transformation of Su Shi's Ci is based on his concept of Ci and his creative proposition of "sui generis". Ci has been regarded as a path since the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties.
Liu Yong devoted his life to the creation of ci, which promoted the development of ci style, but failed to improve the literary status of ci. Su Shi first broke the concept that poetry is superior to ci in theory.
He believes that poetry comes down in one continuous line and belongs to the same family, and words are the seedlings of poetry. Although there are external differences between poems and words, their artistic essence and expressive function should be the same.
So he often compares poetry with poetry. Because he raised the word to the same position as the poem from the stylistic concept, it provided a theoretical basis for the word to move closer to the poetic style and realize the mutual exchange and infiltration between the word and the poem.
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