A Well-structured Long Poem Makes Poetic History: On Xu Fang’s Poem Nostalgia

Xu Fang is a famous poet during the transitional period between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.Good at writing long poems,his poem Nostalgia contains one thousand and four hundred words.The poem shows the content of his profound thoughts and distinct features of his times mainly through depicting the images of adherents of the Ming Dynasty and displaying their inner world poetically.Meanwhile,the poem is his practice of his poetic ideas,which is of great artistic value and of practical significance for poetic writing.