The Study Of Nostalgic Poem In Tang Dynasty

Poetry of the Tang Dynasty is the peak of ancient Chinese poetry, the poetry ofvarious themes during this period have been fully developed and made greatachievements. Nostalgic poem also becomes a type of brilliant wonderful work inTang’s poetry flowery vale as well as the Frontier Poem, the History-Nostalgia Poemand the Landscape and Pastoral Poem. It expresses the concern of the individualtowards his own life and the present situation and contains a lot of life experience hidbehind the strong feelings of nostalgia which conclude as the life awareness, the longingfor family love, the tire of drifting on the roam, the lament on the shortness of the lifeand fall-through, the desire of home-coming, the pain on the dilemma of home-coming,and the profound recognition of home-country-in-one in the war time. The Tang’snostalgic poem not only demonstrates the human condition and the emotional efforts ofthe Tang Dynasty, also reflects the political, economic, ideological, and culturalconditions of the Tang Dynasty. In this sense, the Tang’s nostalgic poem is a window forus to understand the people and society in the Tang Dynasty.The nostalgic poem has a long history in the history of ancient Chinese poetry.This thesis primarily studies on the historical periods of the nostalgic poem, and on thebasis of the possession of the plenty materials, the author means to commitcomprehensive, detailed and in-depth discussion on the ideology and art of the nostalgicpoems in the Tang Dynasty, reveals the inheritance and development of the nostalgicpoem to the former generation and discusses new developments and achievements inthe Tang Dynasty. The study focuses on the nostalgic art form and art features.The thesis consists of three parts: the introduction, the main body and theconclusion.The introduction part discusses the generation of the nostalgic poem, the aestheticqualities of nostalgic poem, and the overview on the nostalgic poem in the TangDynasty and the current research status. The main body of the thesis is divided into six chapters.According to the three historical stages of the Qin Dynasty, Hanwei and Northernand Southern Dynasties, focusing on major writers and their works, the first chapter isto discuss the development and achievements of nostalgic poem before Tang, anddescribes the ideological art and innovation of the nostalgic poems.The second chapter is to explain the features and achievements of the thoughtcontent, the emotional tone, and the artistic characteristics of the nostalgic poems in thebeginning, the prosperous, the middle and the late four different stages of the TangDynasty, after the longitudinal investigation and description of nostalgic poems of theTang Dynasty.The third chapter is about to reveal and discusses the emotional implication of thenostalgic poems in the Tang Dynasty, which includes the loneliness for drifting on theroam, the longing for family love, the lament on the shortness of the life, the grief andindignation for the career ups-and-downs, the sadness for the difficulty of returning etc.,discusses these emotional causes and reveals the important aspect of Chinese livingcondition and emotional state of mind in the Tang Dynasty.The forth chapter is to analyze the spatiality and temporality structure in thenostalgic poems of the Tang Dynasty, from the two systems time and space, sort out thecharacteristics of the situations of the homesick, discuss the syncretic structure mode ofthe time and space in the nostalgic poems of the Tang.The fifth chapter is to discuss the aesthetic imageries in the nostalgic poems of theTang, the nostalgic poems are created a lot of imageries to express the homesickness,for instance: the river birds, the wild geese, the partridges, the duckweed, the whiteclouds, the drifting water, the moon, the cries of the aps, the homesick dreams, theletters to home, and the homesick tears etc. this chapter discusses and analyzes theseimageries, and try to reveal the characteristics and aesthetic value in these nostalgicpoems.The sixth chapter is to analyze the art of narrations existed in these nostalgicpoems, reveal the aesthetic mechanisms and the forms of expression in the nostalgicpoems according to the situation narrations.The conclusion part is to briefly summarize the aesthetic significance of thehomesickness and the returning consciousness in these nostalgic poems of the Tang Dynasty at the spiritual level.