Share the Remarkable Poetry,Feeling the Sprit of Unusual Men──The Comparison of the Poetry Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun

Two most important poets Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun, living at the turning point of Jin and Song dynasties, are often discussed together. This paper tries to explore the differentia of their poetry from the following aspects:the contrast of the human world and paradise in their respective poetic states; their different ways of direct and indirect depiction of nature; their different expressions of and reason. This exploration is confined in a special aspect, however, it still shows the basic distance of their artistic achievements and reveals the reliance of poetic creation on the true life and emotion in a sense.