Study On The Late-tang Poetry From The Perspective Of The Corporeality

Abstract:While inheriting traditional concepts,literati’s view of body(身体观)has its own characteristics in Tang Dynasty.In late-Tang(晚唐),poets were forced by the decay of society and the times,turning their perspectives more on themselves and on self.Their concepts of body were mainly reflected in the sense of drift and involuntary sense of helplessness.Mental loneliness,anxiety,loss,disillusionment,wandering,and sensitive psychology all exacerbated their understanding of the body’s vulnerability.Therefore,they also deliberately describe the"pathological"body in poetry and lament weakness,aging and illness.This dissertation aims to analyzes the aesthetic characteristics of the corporeal writing in late-Tang poetry(晚唐诗)and reveals the influence of the body acting as the roles of both the aesthetic subject and aesthetic object in the poetry creation in late-Tang poetry(晚唐诗)based on the view of body(身体观)and physical condition of the late-Tang poets.Firstly,to dissect how the poets understand and describe the world through the way of physical perception from the sense of sight,hearing,skinsense,smell and gestation.In this segment,there is a bi-directional interaction between the creative subject and the objective world,including the cognition and aesthetic process of creative subject to the objective world under the operation of sensory function.Then,analyzing the characteristics of weak physique and decaying of late-Tang poetry(晚唐诗)mainly from the disease and senility.The disease written in the late-Tang poetry(晚唐诗)stretch across from the physical level to the psychological,cultural and social level,coming into a common morbid moan.This is related to evaluation of weak physique and decaying from the later critics in Ming and Qing Dynasty.Physical senility is an inevitable phenomenon of human physiology.However,senility has become the universal orientation of self-images of poets in late-Tang(晚唐)whether in their middle age or old age.Therefore,in late-Tang(晚唐),senility is mostly related to the social level.Decaying has appeared in late-Tang poetry(晚唐诗),mostly referring to disease and senility in physical aspects.It has not yet become a onomastion of poetics at that time,but it is the source of a prevalent viewpoint in poetics of Ming and Qing Dynasties.