Secularization of Yu Xin's Scenic Poems and Its Significance & Influence

Yu Xin,who adopted a thoroughly negative attitude towards metaphysical viewpoints of nature,combines his worldly feelings with his aesthetic sense of mountains and rivers and puts his worldly desires and expectations into specific descriptions of mountains and rivers in nature,thus resulting in secularization of his scenic poems.The basic spirit and value orientation reflected by secularization of his scenic poems are completely different from those of early scenic poems.His secularized scenic poems do not pursue the freedom of the soul or spiritual transcendency,nor do they possess the philosophical implication that it is sought after that significance of human life is interlinked with the Way of the World,thus leading to a thorough change in the development orientation of scenic poems in which the outside world is admired and man and nature are unified as one,and enabling it to incline towards secular life and pursuit of the actual or the real.Secularization makes it possible for scenic poems to get rid of the shadow of metaphysics and return to the world and keep a foothold on the real.As the end of metaphysical influence on the creation of scenic poems and as the sign that marks the close of a literary period,secularization of scenic poems possesses great significance and influence.