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Jessica Montello ART383 Prof. Kent Wang Wei Master of Jintishi During the Tang Dynasty, poetry continued to flourish in China with Wang Wei as one of the three most prominent poets. His poems reflect the three main teachings of the major schools of thought of the time, the Buddhist ideals concerning the impermanence of life, the philosophical Taoist ideal of eremitism, and the Confucian emphasis on moral responsibility and government service. The poems, succinct in length, appeal to the senses with vivid imagery that lets the imagination fly. Although Wang Wei lived life at court, he built an expansive country estate as his escape as was popular among officials of the time. It was here amidst his gardens that many of the poems in his canon were written. Many of his poems are written in a type of standard form made to balance the four tones of classical Chinese, a level tone, rising, falling,...

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