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The Late Tang Shogunate Literati Mentality Poetry

Posted on:2012-06-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330335958243Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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The rise and fall times of life is always affects the poems and the creative mind of the poet. The political Sobriety and the high degree of prosperity of early Tang Dynasty let to generate a lot of poems which used the spirits and enterprising as the main theme. But to the late Tang Dynasty, the Li Dynasty buildings faced to tilt, the political and the economic at the verge of collapse. The poets falled into difficultly and forced into the local Military Shogunate. This unfortunate experience of life and living environment formed the creation of their unique mentality and reflected the reality of darkness in the form of poetry. These poems in late Tang shogunate had unique and irreplaceable value of the literary significance.This thesis studied and discussed from three aspects:the great historical circumstances of the literary life, the situation and state of mind in shogunate and poetry writing. The first part analysis the overall historical context of Tang, reveals the emperor's fatuity, eunuchs'autocracy and the Military's separatism is the main reasons of the darkness of for the late Tang society, also contributed to the tragic situation of the culprit literati. The second part of this article summarizes and analyzes the specific reasons that authors enter into shogunate, the destiny after enter into shogunate and the resulting formation of the unique creative mind. Clearly expose the double pain, Late Shogunate national disasters and individuals do not protect double lives day and night, that suffered by scholars which caused drastic changes in scholars'personality. The third part lists six parts about the subject matter the poems in late shogunate:separation, satirize current affairs, history wing, scenery and description, frontier, erotic, analyze the emotions and inner world of the literati that reflected in poems, clearly shows the spirit of the era which take the feelings and the sound of the end of the world as the keynote.Throughout the poetry in late Tang shogunate, although there was a big difference between it with the poetry in high-up Tang, but it really showed the bleak emotion, and it was the integral part of the Tang Dynasty poetry, and also added a bright for multicolored Chinese ancient poetry scene.
Keywords/Search Tags:Late Tang Dynasty, Shogun poets, The destiny of poets, The mind of poets, Poetry
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