Good poetry is worth appreciating: Ye Jiaying said of Tao Yuanming, Du Fu, and Li Shangyin.

Author: Ye Jiaying
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Features: "Enjoying Good Poetry Together," and from just this book title, readers can imagine that it is a relatively popular read. The book is divided into four lectures.
Lecture 1: Introduction
This lecture primarily introduces the aesthetic characteristics of the traditional Chinese poetry tradition that emphasizes the emotional resonance between humans and nature. As early as in the Great Preface to the Book of Mao, Chinese poetics proposed the concept of "Fu, Bi, Xing." While later scholars have had various opinions on these three concepts, personally, I believe that what they truly represent is the dynamic relationship of mutual inspiration between emotion and objects. "Xing" is the influence of objects on the heart, "Bi" is the influence of the heart on objects, and "Fu" is the simultaneous presence of both object and heart. These three relationships offer a concise yet comprehensive explanation of the emotional resonance in Chinese poetry. Additionally, in Lecture 1, the author also provides a basic comparison between the Chinese poetics' perspective on the relationship between the heart and objects and the Western poetics' perspective on the same.
As for the following three lectures, they build upon the foundation of Lecture 1 and offer practical analyses of selected poems by Tao Yuanming, Du Fu, and Li Shangyin. In these analyses, the author particularly emphasizes how these three poets, in the process of writing poetry, select and grasp imagery, as well as the different ways they invest and channel their emotions. The author places greater focus on how these three poets, through their distinct expressive styles, convey emotional resonance—despite its varying nature—that equally moves the hearts of readers.