释智圆晚年与西湖为伴,创作了大量以西湖、孤山及酬唱赠答为题材的西湖诗,内容十分丰富。释智圆采取自注诗歌的方式丰富了其诗歌的内涵,有着融合儒、佛和倡导诗教的个性,同时也有宋诗“以议论为诗”的共性。虽然释智圆算不上宋代一流的诗人,其主要成就亦不在诗歌,但从西湖诗的发展来看,正是以释智圆为代表的居住于西湖之畔的这一批宋初诗人,开启了西湖诗歌发展的第一个高峰。研究西湖诗词,既可以清晰地了解西湖文化的发展历史,又可以为推介西湖人文景观、恢复历史原貌提供历史坐标,也可以为进一步扩大西湖的社会传播效应提供艺术媒介。 Zhi Zhiyuan and West Lake in his later years as companions, creating a large number of West Lake poems to the West Lake, Gushan and reward singing and giving as the subject, is very rich in content. Zhizhiyuan has enriched the connotation of his poems by adopting self-commenting poems, and has the characteristics of integrating Confucianism, Buddhism and advocacy of poetic teaching. At the same time, he also has the common features of poems by Song poetry. Although it is not the first-rate poet in the Song Dynasty, the main achievements of Zhi Zhi are not in poetry. However, from the perspective of the development of the West Lake Poetry, it is precisely this group of early Song poets living in the bank of the West Lake, Opened the first peak of the development of West Lake poetry. The study of West Lake poetry can not only clearly understand the history of the development of West Lake culture, but also provide historical coordinates for promoting the cultural landscape of West Lake and restoring the original history of the West Lake. It can also provide an artistic medium for further expanding the social transmission effect of West Lake.