Characteristics of Xie Lingyun's landscape poetry:
The landscape poetry pioneered by Xie Lingyun introduced the beautiful scenery of nature into the poem, making the landscape an independent aesthetic object. His creation not only liberated poetry from bland mysticism, but also strengthened the artistic skills and expressiveness of poetry, and influenced the style of poetry of a generation.
These poems generally have the following artistic characteristics:
First, they have a sophisticated and colorful style. The most impressive thing about Xie Lingyun's poetry is its dense imagery, many parallel lines, and profound and elegant language, thus forming a rich and sophisticated style as a whole. Xie Lingyun was accustomed to using the method of shifting shapes to incorporate what he saw into his poems, and to lay out the scenery in a panoramic manner, thus forming his rich characteristics.
Second, vivid and delicate depiction of scenery. Although Xie Lingyun's poems as a whole have a sense of complexity and complexity, in terms of describing and depicting the beauty of nature, they often give people a vivid and delicate feeling. The description of scenery in his poems is mainly expressed in the pursuit of sound and color. Regarding the expression of color, such as "The green fields are beautiful in the spring evening, and the rocks are high in the Baiyun Village", the author does not apply colorful colors, but only uses green fields as the background and white clouds as embellishments to capture the sunshine and vitality of spring. The characteristics constitute a pure and soft picture.
The description of sound, such as "Sleeping on Shimen Rock", "Birds sing to know their night roost, and falling trees know the wind", using movement to set off the stillness, describing the deep night, and the sound of birdsong and falling leaves is particularly clear. This description of sound and color reflects a new trend in poetry creation and has a great influence on the creation of future generations of poets. In this regard, Xie Lingyun can be said to be the founder of a new era of poetry creation.
Third, the stylized characteristics of the structure. In terms of the overall structure of Xie Lingyun's poems, he often travels first, then writes about his experiences, and at the end talks about mystical reasoning, trailing a metaphysical tail. This structural pattern formed by narrative-scenery-reasoning gives Xie's poems a stylized character.
As for the reason for the formation of this stylized structure, it can be said to be related to the limitations of Xie Lingyun's aesthetic awareness of landscapes. Xie Lingyun could not forget about political power throughout his life. When he was frustrated politically and went to travel around the mountains and rivers, he only used the mountains and rivers as a kind of sensory stimulation to cover up his passion for power.
Therefore, when he wrote the scenery, he could not truly achieve the perfect integration of emotion, scenery and reason, nor could he form a complete and harmonious artistic conception.