A Critical Study of Li Shang-yin’s Modelling After Tu Fu
Resource
臺大中文學報, 15, 091-146
Journal
臺大中文學報
Journal Issue
15
Pages
091-146
Date Issued
2001-12
Date
2001-12
Author(s)
Fand, Y.
Abstract
It is generally agreed that Li Shang-yin's poetry models after Tu Fu's. However, the following topics still want for thorough study: how does Li model after Tu? What is the innovation in the poetry of Li while following and imitating Tu? How does Li form his own unique poetic style and become a major writer in the trend of beauty-saturated literature in late T'ang period. This essay strives to present an overall perspective, and to deduce some crutial ideas. It is divided into three parts: "bearty and sorrow--enchantment formed by contrast," "imagery and sensibility--fineness and depth bestowing on objects by means of empathy," "discourse and spirituality fascinating dance of fantasy and reality. "Their poems will be employed as examples and be analyzed in details. The most fundamental thing that Li learns from Tu is his realization that suffering is the essece of life and that one should take the responsibility and never shun from the suffering. Among T'ang poets, Tu and Li are ones whose tragic sense is the strongest. This essay also emphasizes the difference between Li's and Tu's poetry, which is rooted in the diversity of styles in the high T'ang period and the late T'ang period, and rooted in their diverse personality. The difference will be presented by comparing and analyzing their poems. I hope that my study will enable us to understand more profoundly and more thoroughly how Li. who is fated to be born later than the great, master, deliberately develops and coinages his own style.
Subjects
李商隱
杜甫
學杜
Li Shang-yin
Tu Fu
Modelling after Tu
Type
journal article