Geographical Landscape, Temporal-Spatial Patterns, and Emotional Connotations:An Interpretation of WANG Tingyun's Poems from a Perspective of Literary Geography

WANG Tingyun is one of the most representative writers of the Mid-Jin Dynasty. His works include numerous poems describing natural landscapes, involving a large number of natural and human landscapes, which are intertwined and complemented with each other. At the same time, these geographical landscapes are expressed differently in various temporal-spatial patterns in different poems. Natural Geographical landscapes are presented in all four temporal-spatial patterns. However, human geographical landscapes only appear in the temporal-spatial patterns with a single time and space. The diversity of geographical landscapes and different temporal-spatial combination patterns in the poems also convey the poet's different emotional connotations. The temporal-spatial structure with a single time and space mainly expresses the love for nature, while other temporal-spatial structures mainly express feelings of missing friends and hometown, and nostalgia for the past.