ON JIA ZHI'S POETRY AND PROSE DURING HIS DEMOTION IN YUEYANG

Jia Zhi, a poet lived in the prime periods of the Tang Dynasty, had composed approximately thirty poems and a piece of prose during his demotion in Yueyang for three years.His poetry can be classified into three categories :The Landscape poems,the poems as presents between friends seeing each other off, the poems showing the deep feelings for their families of thetraveling men. The overall style of these poems is plaintive but not indignant, and in a laudable tolerant spirit as well. His poetry is unique compared with the other numerous exilic poems of the Tang Dynasty.