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Su Shi 's work reveals a broad-minded and smile-to-life bosom. Having unrecognized talent he expressed himeself in philosophic writing style instead of hidden bitterness. Su Shi, a widely respected writer, was trapped in contradiction between career and solitude the whole lifetime. Thus it caused the fusion of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism and transformed into his own thinking beyond the challenges brought him misery .
So far, the academic researches for Su Shi's lyrics are quite numerous , but there is still less study of lyrics about immortals. However these works express poets' surpassing and entrusting in reality from another point of view and help accomplish the development of artistic conception. Lyrics about immortals possessing the features of distinct tragedy, transcendence and philosophy contributes much to the development of the lyrics of the Sung Dynasty by the whole new ideological content and vivid creative characteristic.
This paper, "The research of Su Shi's lyrics about immortals", firstly describes Su Shi's lifetime and the evolution of literature about immortals. Secondly we analyze Su Shi's compositions in various periods and discuss ideological content revealed from his lyrics about immortals and metamorphosis of poet's minds generated in the passing of time by diachronic context. Through a comprehensive study of Su Shi's lyrics about immortals we finally explore poets' the experience of human existence with deep meaning, think back its artistic features and orientate and evaluate his contribument for developing of lyrics of the Sung Dynasty.
In summary Su Shi's open-minded outlook and unique personality drives him to dig deeply into the experience of human existence byeond the cliché from another angle exceeding the mundane emotion and persuit. And by the thought of immortals Su Shi opened a new road to the producing of lyrics of the Sung Dynasty and had significant contributions for lyrics' poetic and elegance.
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