李梦阳晚年心态管窥

A RESTRICTED VIEW OF LI MENG-YANG'S MENTALITY IN HIS LATER YEARS

明代前"七子"领袖李梦阳,号召复古,力振风雅。其人才雄负气,傲睨一世。其心态至晚年出现了明显的变化,由自是到自知,由任才力到信天命,在霸气犹存的同时,表现出对生命本真的复归。梦阳晚年心态的这种变化,跟他的生平遭际密切相关。梦阳盛年即遭遇放逐且一往不复,至于终老林下,构成其晚年终难解脱的一痛,再加上中年丧妻的孤独落寞,遭遇的坎壈促使他对过往进行反思,从而带来了其心态的变化,并影响及于梦阳晚年的诗歌创作与诗歌理论。

Before Ming Dynasty, Li meng - yang, the leader of ＂the Seven Talented Persons＂ called on people to return to the ancients and to vitalize refined manners. He was ambitious and showed disdain for everything. In his later years, there occurred an obvious change in his psychology from being self- opinionated to self- knowledge, from believing in talent and ability to believing in destiny. He showed his high - handedness as well as his return to the essence and truthfulness of life. Such a change in his mentality was closely related to the difficulties and dangers he met with in his life. In the prime of his life, he was sent into exile and never came back and finally died in the old woods with mental distress he could never free himself from even in his later years. He also suffered from loneliness and distress caused by the death of his wife in his middle age. Because of his suffering and frustrations he began to make a self - examination of his past which contributed to his change in mentality and influenced his poetic creation and theory in his later years.