The Research On The Long Narrative Poems In The Modern Times

The preface of The Records of Qing Poems, written by Professor Qian Zhonglian, says "the narrative poem is the characteristic of Qing Poem, and also the key point of the idiom 'overstepping the Yuan poems and the Ming poems, inheriting the Tang poems and the Song poems.'" "The current of Qing Poem is introducing the policy, reflecting the reality. The main events are written by the poets, and the length of some poems is more than 100 sentences. Qing poems are the number one that has the most works, vast subject matters, and longest length. That is to say there are exist lots of benefit for the Qing Poems, even the Chinese ancient Poems to do some research on the narrative poems, especially, the Modern times Poem is the milestone of the transform of the tradition. As Professor Wang Pijiang says: "the turn point of Qing Poem is the period of Dao Guang and Xian Feng, and the peak of it is during the period of Tong Guang. Hence, the Modern Times Poems have their own characteristics and worthiness.However, at the current, the literature field pays a little attention on the Modern Times Poems. We have not seen some works on the Modern Times Poem which do the research basing on the narrative poems completely and macroscopically. This paper will take Zhang Weiping's narrative poems and some other poets' as the example, then do some research about the Modern Times Poems' basic knowledge, artistic characteristic, developing process, the worthiness and the narrative sense. This paper will be divided into 4 chapters, about 20,000 words, and the research consists of the theme, the artistic performance and the creative awareness.In terms of the theme, the Modern Times Poems not only keep abreast of the times by revealing the common people's lives, paying attention to the main events. But also have the trend of "lifization" and popularization by describing the personal life's trace, modeling colorful figures. Besides, it also not only reflects the domestic lives, but turns to the foreign and describes the seeing of the outside.In terms of the artistic performance, each narrative poem has it own performing manners, functions and style characters. Generally speaking, the Yuefu Narrative Poem usually takes the objective way to write the poem, and mainly focus on the social problems. Meanwhile, the Five-Character Narrative Poem takes the subjective and individual Self-Narration or Witness-Narration, which can both describe the social problems and reveal the personal life. The performance of Seven-Character Narrative Poem is between the above two styles, but the performance function focuses on model all kinds of figures.In terms of the narrative awareness, although the Modern Times Poems' Narrative awareness regards the traditional ideas such as "Poem-history", "observe the custom" as the main stream, the poets of different schools expand and enrich the poems' narrative awareness from each school's aspect. In addition to it, some poets' experiments hint they try to pioneer a new way with the help of the traditional merit, for example, Weiyuan, Zhang jiliang expanded the traditional satire narration spirits, Lu Yitong, Zhang Zhidong thought of the "thing" which occurred in the poems, Huang Zunxian, Jinhe discussed the poem writing style of "take prose as poet", Yaoxie, Jinhe drew lessons from awareness of legends.