A Study of Wind-breaking Poem by Jia Dao at Cool-inviting Pavilion——The Significance of the Image of Poet Jia Dao in Displaying the States of Mind of Men of Letters in the Yuan Dynasty
The distressed and frustrated situation of Jia Dao,a poet in the Tang Dynasty forms a transgenerational link with the realistic plight of playwrights in the Yuan Dynasty.In selection of subject matter,setting of plot and molding of character image,Wind-breaking Poem by Poet Jia Dao at Cool-inviting Pavilion written by an anonymous writer displays the complicated states of mind of that period's men of letters in special situation.The features included in the image of Jia Dao provide vast space for the change of molding of playwrights at that time.Jia Dao in the play has become an image that has condensed the typical states of mind of men of letters in the Yuan Dynasty.