孟郊是中唐韩孟诗派的代表人物,他的诗与韩愈齐名,古朴苍劲,阴郁冷峭,以奇险著称。韩愈称他作诗是“刿目心,钩章棘句,掐擢胃肾,神施鬼设,间见层出”(《贞曜先生墓志铭》)。可见他的创作方法是:刻意搜求尖酸怪异的意象,呕心苦吟地锤炼诗歌语言。他的诗又与贾岛齐名,苏轼评为“郊寒岛瘦”。其实“郊寒”只是就其总体印象而言,因为孟郊久困科场,中第之后也只是沉沦下僚,终生坎凛多舛,因此他的诗中对荒寒、饥饿、困顿、劳碌、贫病多有表现。苏轼对孟郊的整体感受是正确 Meng Jiao is a representative of the Han and Meng Poets School in the Middle Tang Dynasty. His poem and Han Yu are famous, simple and vigorous, gloomy and gloomy, and are known for their unique dangers. Han Yu said he is a poem is “stare, stabbed stingy, pinch stomach and kidney, God ghost set, see the layers” (“Mr. Zhen Yao Epitaph”). Visible his creative method is: deliberately search for bitter and weird images, painstakingly poignant poetry language. His poems and Jia Island homogeneous, Su Shih rated In fact, “suburban ” only in terms of their overall impression, because Meng suburbs Jiuchang science field, after the first only sinking under the bureaucratic, life long Rinan, so his poems on the barren, hungry, sleepy , Laborious, poor performance of many diseases. The overall feeling of Su Shi on Meng Jiao is correct