As a classmate, Wang Meng has many similarities in art, but there are also differences. Now mainly compare the differences between the two.
In Wang Wei's poems, the poet's self-image is integrated with the external scenery, and the author's personality is integrated with nature. He is good at expressing his personal feelings through the description of scenery. In Meng Haoran's poems, the poet's image is independent, constantly moving in the natural environment described, and the author's feelings are directly expressed. This expression is often light and elegant, with endless aftertaste.
Wang Wei's pastoral poems depict colorful nature with diverse artistic conception and style. The poet expressed his pleasure in enjoying the beautiful scenery and showed his love for life and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. His natural and unrestrained spirit and carefree mood are completely integrated with the external scenery, and his personality is perfectly combined with nature. Wang Wei is especially devoted to the concentration of feelings and the purification of scenery. His poetic image is delicate and pure, even to the degree of transparency. He is good at selecting distinctive details and accurately and vividly portraying the distinctive personalities of different natural landscapes. For example, Zhong Nanshan writes that Zhong Nanshan is tall, steep, broad and majestic; "Flower Moon" describes the magic and magnificence of Huashan Mountain. This kind of poetry is magnificent in weather and artistic conception, just like a huge panorama of mountains and rivers, showing lofty aesthetic feeling.
Meng Haoran's pastoral poems are closer to his own life. Such as "Passing through the Old Village": "Prepare chicken rice for me, old friend, you entertain me on your farm. Green Woods surround the village and green hills are located outside the city. Open the window facing the valley vegetable garden and pass the glass to talk about crops. Wait until the mountain is on holiday, and I will come back in chrysanthemum time. " The description of scenery in Meng Haoran's poems is often a part of his living environment, with the characteristics of improvisation and real carving. For example, "Spring Dawn"
Writing about my feelings at dawn, casual speculation reveals a beautiful and pleasant spring, which seems regrettable, but there is no trace to be found. Compared with Wang Wei's poems, the language of poetry is natural and pure, which is reflected in beauty, and seems to be more simple and closer to the realm of Tao Yuanming's extravagant poems.
In Wang Wei's poems, there is movement in quietness, which is often expressed as quietness, and the artistic conception of "Yin Gong Shan is more secluded" is written. In Meng's poems, the first thing that people feel is the fluctuation of the poet's emotions. The scenery he describes is often quiet and beautiful, and everything is silent.
Wang Wei is proficient in music and good at painting. In his poems describing natural landscapes, he created the poetic scene of Ming Xiu with pictures in poems and poems in paintings. For example, an autumn night in the mountains:
In the fresh, quiet and vibrant natural landscape, the poet felt the endless fun of life, and his spirit sublimated to the ethereal and light realm. The beauty of nature and the beauty of the soul are completely integrated, creating a poetic realm as pure and beautiful as a hidden mirror flower.
The artistic conception of Meng's poems always exists in a relatively closed space, and the embarrassment of his visual environment is often felt when he has not read the whole poem. Such as his "Leave Tonglu River to Send an Old Tour to Ling Ke":
In the first two sentences, the field of vision is still wide. In three or four sentences, the field of vision is immediately withdrawn and stays on the visible scenery, just like the poem "A message from Dongting Lake to Premier Zhang", which is unusual in Meng's poems.
Wang Wei's poems are famous for their exquisiteness and precision, and their language is tempered and sometimes cautionary, which is a "poetic eye" that reminds people; Landscape description is good at painting. Meng's poems are fresh and natural, mostly short in length, plain in language and good at painting.
Wang Wei's poetic language is rich and flashy, exquisite and not gorgeous, clear and not shallow, natural and not clumsy, which makes Tao Yuanming's poetic language "clean", but more colorful and dazzling. Therefore, famous sentences that have been passed down through the ages often appear in Wang Wei's poems, such as: "After the rain, an empty mountain stands in the dusk and autumn. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a pine shadow, and there was a crystal stone in its stream ("Mountain Residence in Autumn Night"); "The grass withers and the eagle is sick, and the snow is light" ("Hunting"); "When those red berries come in spring, they flush on your southern branches? I advise you to accept more as a symbol of our love! " (acacia); "People idle osmanthus falls, and the night is quiet and empty. When the moon comes out, it surprises the birds and sounds into the spring stream. " ("Bird Watching Creek"); "There seems to be no one on the empty mountain, but I think I heard a voice." (Chai Lu)
Meng Haoran's life experience and life experience are relatively simple, which makes the life involved in Meng's poems relatively narrow; Poetry is mostly short stories, lacking of long masterpieces with profound ideological connotations; Some of the rules and regulations are not tempered enough, which is straightforward, cold, frugal and mediocre. However, Meng Haoran's pastoral poetry is closer to daily life, with plain and natural language and deep feelings, and its true, practical, simple and pure style is closer to the charm of Tao poetry than Wang Wei's pastoral poetry. For example, Crossing the Old Village shows the quiet and beautiful rural scenery and the simple and sincere friendship between the host and the guest, which is simple and natural and has a strong atmosphere of life; The poet carries the ancient customs in the five laws, and the whole article is done in one go, which has the charm of Tao Yuanming's pastoral poetry and is the most touching masterpiece in ancient pastoral poetry.
Wang Meng also said that he represented the highest level of pastoral poetry in Tang Dynasty. Although they are different in many ways, as people of the same era, there are still some places where their thoughts can produce * * *. It is precisely because of these similarities and differences that Tang poetry will blossom and make Tang poetry reach the peak of feudal society in China.