论曹寅的写心诗

On Cao Yin's "Heart" Poetry

写心贯穿了曹寅诗歌创作的整个历程,这种表达个体人生感受的诗歌最能体现作者的艺术个性。曹寅的写心诗虽无下层布衣寒士浓重的哀情,然其抒发人生之困惑、仕途之忧惧,却与一般的落拓文士有共通之处,体现出他真实的心迹:由外在行役之苦的感慨,到内在仕途忧患的抒发;由对君臣、主仆关系之本质的体悟,到闲雅生活中心态的调适。曹寅的写心诗也为家族后人曹雪芹创作小说《红楼梦》提供了特殊的家族经验。

The ＂heart＂ has characterized most of the poetic works by Cao Yin（1658-1712）.Such poems,expressing his feelings of the life,have best revealed the poet＇s artistic individuality.His poems do not convey the anguished misery of the lower classes of society,yet his doubts about life and worries about his official career are not different from those of other literati in ancient China,and so his poems are true manifestations of his heart： from the sympathetic sighs for the bitter life of the serfs to the anxieties about his own official career,and from the insight into the essence of emperor-officials and master-servant relations to the adjustments of his mood in daily life.Such a way of writing has also offered special literary experience for Cao Xueqin（1715-1763）,one of his greatest descendants,in his writing of Hong Lou Meng.