元末巢湖诗人郭奎生平及诗歌创作初探OA

Guo Kui,a poet from Chaohu at the end of the Yuan Dynasty,was the first literatus in the history of the Chaohu region to leave behind a separate collection of poetry and prose.His collection is titled Wangyun Ji.Guo Kui's life can be divided into two periods,taking 1355(the 15th year of the Zhizheng era in the Yuan Dynasty),when he joined Zhu Yuanzhang's army,as the dividing line:a period of wandering before enlisting,and a period of serv-ing as a staff officer after entering military service.Guo Kui's poetry can also be divided into two periods:the early period mainly comprises poems expressing homesickness and longing for his wife,as well as poems depicting tur-moil;the later period chiefly comprises poems voicing personal feelings and aspirations,along with poems of mili-tary life.In terms of artistic characteristics,Guo Kui's poetry is solid in substance and gently understated,with an elegant and orthodox style.In terms of artistic origins,his work continues the Yuan poetic mainstream,which es-teemed emulation of the Tang and a return to antiquity,and it links up with the revivalist trend of Ming poetry,thereby embodying the developmental trajectory of classical poetry from the Yuan to the Ming.He is an outstanding representative of poetry at the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming.