On the Life and Political Ideals of the Poet Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan is one of the famous patriotic poets in the history of China,and as for his poems,they shall not only be interpreted from the literary perspective but also from the political perspective,because it is a tradition that poets tend to express their am bition through poems. In the poems of Qu Yuan,we can read both the thoughts about the country and about his own life. The ideal personality and the ideal politics are inseparable,the former of which is the foundation while the later the supreme goal. The integration of the ideal personality and the ideal politics is the essence of the patriotism of Qu Yuan,which,for the later generations,is still worthem phasizing and researching.