A Poetic Meditation on Life:A Comparison between My Retreat at Mount Zhongnan and Tour of Shanxi Village
My Retreat at Mount Zhongnan and the Tour of Shanxi Village were respectively created when Wang Wei and Lu You were idle at home,visiting the landscape and idyllic fields.The two poems have their similarities in writing subject matter,narrative mode,mood change,poetic environment and so on,but there are also great differences in poetry style,creative mood,creative content and so on.Due to the difference of Wang Wei's life and Lu You's life aspirations,My Retreat at Mount Zhongnan and Tour of Shanxi Village reflect the different creative subjects'pursuit of the meaning of life,presenting the different life paradigms of Wang and Lu to the world.
Wang WeiLu YouMy Retreat at Mount ZhongnanTour of Shanxi Villagecomparison of similarities and differences