On Wang Guowei's Poetry Criticism from The Thorn on Earth

Among the poets in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Guowei first promoted Nalan Xingde, calling him "the only one since the Northern Song Dynasty". His words are sincere, accurate, and touching without deliberate exaggeration. When learning poetry, I often have a feeling that it is really good, but I don't know how to say it. Maybe I have no ink in my chest and lack of words. According to my own literary ability, I can't comment.

Jiang Chunlin's poem Golden Gate

Before people got up, Tong Yin moved enough. The fragrance of wine adds to the beauty of a night's sleep, and the sound of spring dreams. The scene in the poem has already appeared in Shang Kun's mind. Xia Kun wrote: "Make up the small screen and rely on it alone, and the wind will fall." If you want to pick up the red finger, the shutter will call the swallow. "The poet feels sad, and even because of his sadness, he feels the same. This is what I think is good.

Generally speaking, it always feels good and wonderful to comment on poetry, but what are the specific advantages? Where is the beauty? I don't know what to say. Chen said that this word is "elegant and sad, and inexhaustible". Is it specific? I don't know, Wang Guowei said, "It's quite a realm." But I don't know how to comment on the realm. Realm seems to be something that can't be described but can be felt inside. It can only be understood without words.

Wang Guowei used a lot of comparative methods to evaluate the quality of poetry in Ci Hua on Earth. He thinks that emotion in poetry is better directly than indirectness, creativity is more important than flowery rhetoric, and scene blending is more touching. As for ci, the ci styles of the Five Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty are different, which is caused by the changes of the times. The five pronouns, represented by Li Houzhu, are mainly lyrical, while the Ci in the Northern Song Dynasty is quite different, with broad artistic conception. The words in the Southern Song Dynasty are mainly words and expressions, and their artistic conception is not as good as that in the Northern Song Dynasty.