1. Pastoral poetry: Describe the natural and quiet pastoral scenery and natural and simple pastoral life. This is the poet's idealized artistic realm. It reflects the poet's quiet and carefree life interest and carefree and detached state of mind, and also denies the dark reality and ugliness of officialdom at that time. For example, Returning to the Garden [less and less vulgar rhyme], Being in the Wild], Drinking [Building a House in a Humanistic Environment], The Home Book of What Country, etc. He expressed his experience of farming life and his love for labor, which reflected the poet's deep friendship with farmers. Such as "Returning to the Garden" [Planting Beans in Nanshan] and "Harvest Early Rice in Xitian in September of Gengxu New Year". Describing the hardships of his own life and the depression in the countryside reflects the real world outside the poet's idealized realm. Such as "Complaining Poems and Chu Tunes to Show Pang Zhushu Deng Zhizhong", "Returning to the Garden" and "Begging for Food".
2. Poetry and epic: Tao Yuanming's poems are similar in content to epic, and epic is also a poem, which inherits the poetic traditions of Ruan Ji's epic and Zuo Si's epic. The main content of poetry is to express one's thoughts, feelings and ambitions. Some show the ideological contradiction between ideal and reality, joining the WTO and being born; Some worries about the realization of the value of life express the anguish of ambition that is hard to pay; Some reflect the noble character of not colluding with the dark reality and sticking to personal integrity; Others express their anger in the form of "King Kong glaring". Such as drinking, antique style, miscellaneous poems, singing about poverty, singing about Jing Ke, reading Shan Hai Jing, etc. Most of them fall into this category.
3. Others: Tao Yuanming's official poems are his works during his official period, mostly describing the hardships of being an official, his boredom with being an official and his longing for seclusion. Such as "The First Town Army Joins the Army" and so on. Most poems are about friendship between friends. If you answer Pang to join the army, bid farewell to Yin Jin. In addition, Tao Yuanming has some philosophical poems. Like "together"
Artistic achievements of Tao Yuanming s poems;
1. Plain and natural, mellow and meaningful artistic style. The theme and content of Tao Yuanming's poems are close to ordinary daily life, and the images of poems often take things that are often heard in self-study, express their feelings directly, sculpt them honestly, and use good words. The profound meaning of Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems is only to express the artistic image and artistic conception of the poems with faint sketches and true feelings, but it is magic in plain and beautiful in simplicity. Zhu said: "Yuan and Ming's poems are plain, out of nature." (Zhuzi School) Su Shi said that his poems are: "Quality and reality, but richness and reality." ("Book with Su Zhe") also said: "Dry outside and paste inside, which seems light and beautiful." (Comment on Liu Han's Poem on Dongpo Inscription and Postscript) Yuan Hao asked about his poem: "A word is natural and eternal, and luxury is exhausted." In addition to this basic style, there are some poems called "King Kong's Glaring Style" by Lu Xun ("Two Essays on Jie Ting", the title of which is undetermined). Zhu also talked about his uninhibited side: "Everyone says that Tao Yuanming's poems are unremarkable. According to some people, he is proud of it, but he is bold. " The person who shows his true colors is an essay "Jing Ke Fu". How can ordinary people say such a thing? "(Zhuzi school)
2. Sublime, unconventional and natural artistic realm. The images in Tao Yuanming's poems seem unremarkable, but they create a lofty and unconventional artistic realm. The main idea of his poems lies in freehand brushwork, in expressing his mind, interest and understanding of life, while writing scenery and narrating is just for meaning. Many of Tao's poems have reached the natural artistic realm of the unity of things and me, subject and object, emotion, scenery and reason.
3. The colors are natural and the language is concise and vivid. Tao Yuanming's poems are not just ornamentation, but use simple and natural language and sparse brushwork to concisely outline vivid images and convey profound meanings, so as to achieve the artistic effect of freehand brushwork and vivid expression. He is good at refining the spoken language in daily life into poetry, which is full of strong flavor of life. He often uses metaphors, symbols, sustenance and other techniques, even if he uses allusions, it is colloquial.