On the Polemical Characteristics of Tao Yuanming's Poetry
Literati in the Song Dynasty frequently criticized the phenomenon of writing poems in polemical language,but Tao Yuanming,who had a lot of polemics in his poems,was highly respected.This has something to do with the characteristics of Tao's argumentation.First,Tao's discourse is produced in a certain situation,and his language has emotional flavor,so it is not empty and natural.Secondly,Tao's use of imaginary words and prose style sentences and structures in his arguments makes the arguments friend-ly and flavorful,and the syntax heavenly and semantic thorough.Third,Tao Yuanming incorporates imagery creation and dramatic ele-ments into his arguments,which makes the arguments graphic and readable.Fourthly,Tao borrowed the structural features of multi-layeredness and dilemma from the fugue style,which possesses the quality of driving the reader to think.However,these features have a common root,which is originated from temperament.