Poetry about Immortals: Poetic Representation of GUO Pu's Desire for an Official Career

As one of the styles of poems in the history of Chinese literature,poetry about immortals presented a splendid sight during the period of Eastern Jin dynasty.GUO Pu,a poet of the period,cultivated himself according to the doctrines of Confucianism and Taoism.Most of his poems belonged to poetry about immortals.Such a style of poems was a kind of his spiritual transcends in the troubled times when he could not realize his official career desire and was unwilling to be a recluse.His poetry about immortals is a poetic representation of his desire for an official career.