Songs of the Heart and Weepings of the Poor and Depressed Poets——Poetics and Poetry of JIANG Shi

JIANG Shi clearly realized that he could only be a poet,which was a calm and profound recognition of his own fate,but also revealed that he could do nothing about not being able to become an official.JIANG Shi was very true to his real feelings,he tried to avoid mediocre and was in pursuit of originality.His ideas of poetry did not conform to the prevalent customs of his time and had certain theoretical values.His theoretical views were put into practice and embodied in the various styles of his poems and shaped this distinguished master of poetry.JIANG Shi was once highly spoken of by a number of theorists,his important position as outstanding poets in modern China should be acknowledged.