面对诗歌日渐衰落的状况,沈德潜创作了《说诗日卒语》,以图恢复诗的教化作用。《说诗日卒语》按照时间线索梳理诗歌发展的历史,并注意清理历代诗歌间的承继关系,梳理各体诗歌的发展脉络,是叶燮诗学理论的实践和具体应用。《说诗日卒语》将叶燮精英化的理论与大众所需要的价值标准结合起来,构建了宏阔融通,能为普通文人所接受的诗史框架。 In the face of the decline of poetry, Shen Deqian created The Saying of Dying and Writing, in order to restore the function of poetry. It is the practice and concrete application of Ye Xie’s poetic theory that Combining the history of poetry development with time clues and paying attention to the inheritance relationship between ancient poetry and combing the development context of various poems. The theory of poetic dictionaries combines Ye Xie’s theory of elitism with the value standards that the masses need to construct a poetic and historical framework acceptable to ordinary literati.