Understanding of Poetry and Poetry of Love

In the ancient theory of poetry, there are two kinds of ideas: "Poetry speaks to the will" and "Poetry is about love"

There are two kinds of ideas.

The theory of "expressing one's will" came out of the book of Shangshu, and the theory of "expressing one's feelings" came out of the period of Wei and Jin. The main similarities and differences are as follows:

Differences: The most fundamental difference between "Poetry of Love" and "Poetry of Will" is that "Will" is the requirement to " The most fundamental difference between "Poetry of the Heart" and "Poetry of the Mind" is that: "Poetry of the Heart" requires that the poet's feelings must conform to the moral norms of Confucianism, while "Poetry of the Heart" does not have to "stop at the rites and ceremonies".

The "love of love" does not have to "stop at rituals and ceremonies". The poet no longer has to use man-made moral norms to constrain himself, based entirely on the poet's poor passages, joys and sorrows, and freely express their feelings in the poem. Visible edge of love" this "new yardstick", fundamentally is the negation of the traditional Confucian "speech" moral connotations, and poetry towards the world of emotional aesthetics.

The same: there are two representative theories about the origin of poetry, one is the origin of the heart, and the other is the origin of the Tao. In the system of the original heart, there are "poetry speaks of the will", "poetry of the emotional nature", "poetry of the emotional" and so on several kinds of statements. Whether it is the will, or the emotional nature, or the feelings, in general, all belong to the "heart", that is to say, literature originates from the human heart.

Ji Yun of the Qing Dynasty attacked the "poetry of love", saying: "The sentiments do not have to stop at the rituals and righteousness of ...... from Lu Pingyuan 'love' a word! It has led us astray, and has even led us to paintings, isn't that the most sincere thing?"

And the poet Zhu Ziqing pointed out in "A Debate on Poetry in the Spirit" that poetry in the spirit "has always stood, while the new tradition of 'poetry in the spirit of love', though developing, has always remained in the shadow of the old tradition, unable to raise its head and show its face". "It was not until this era (Yuan Mei's era) that it really raised its head".

The two schools of thought each have their own views, competing to play.

In fact, the two sayings are not contradictory. "Words of ambition" "edge of love" each has a different foothold. "Words of wisdom" on the poem into the content of the said, "edge of love" on the poem why the said. "Words of ambition", the poem of the stereotype; "edge of love", the poem of the first sprout.

The poet's "feelings" are touched by the poem, which is put into words and called "poetry speaks its mind". The "edge" of what? Because also, because of love and poetry. What is "speech"? The first is to say that it is not a good idea to say what you want to say, but it is a good idea to say what you want to say.

The dichotomy between "cause" and "speech" is not Lu Ji's responsibility either. Mao's poem, "Words of Will", also says that "emotions move in the center and are expressed in words". "Poetry is rooted in emotion. "In the heart is the will, and speech is poetry."

"Zhi" and "love" is a thing, "speech" and "edge of love" and no essential There is no essential difference between "speaking of will" and "feeling". This is the Tang Dynasty Kong Yingda has already seen. The reason for the difference is that the feeling of the object gives birth to feelings, and the poem is composed because of the feelings, and the poem is written because of the feelings, and the poem is composed because of the feelings.

The debate started because of poetry. There are to Dun customs, so "stop at the rites and righteousness", cover the "love" for personal feelings, there is harm to elegance, so want to stifle, the so-called "extinction of human desire" is also; there are to express the spirit of the nature, so valuable to the real, cover the "love" as a personal feeling, the "love" for the "love" of the poem. The "love" for the true feelings, related to the spirit, so want to promote, so-called "children's heart said" is also.