论九僧诗——兼论五言律诗在宋代的衰落

On "Jiuseng" Style Poems——A Discussion on the Decline of Five-characters Eight-lines Poems In Song Dynasty

"九僧"是北宋初期的一个诗人群体,他们的诗是典型的僧人之诗,擅长写景,境界清淡静谧,不乏警句,但往往有句无篇。九僧诗学贾岛、姚合,其作品几乎全是五律,句法单调。杜甫之后,作五律者只能于风格上求变,发展到晚唐便已是穷途末路。如果风格上也不能写出自己的特色,这样的作品只能与前人陈陈相因,九僧的诗歌创作颇有启示作用。

"Jiuseng"(meaning nine monks literally in Chinese) refers to a poet group in the early North Song dynasty.The poems by these poets are typical "monastery" Style Poems.These poems usually depict landscape to evoke lofty inspiration from the reader."Jiuseng" Style Poems imitate the style of Jia Dao and Yao He,and are nearly all five-characters eight-lines poems with monotonous syntax.If these style poems could not find their own unique characteristics,they could only be labeled as offshoot or even copycat of ...