A Study On The Images Of Sound In Poetry Of Tang And Song Dynasty

As for the study on Images of Tang and Song poetry, it has been a popular andfamiliar topic among scholars. But most of their studies are focused on the images ofvision, like colors, pictures, and scenes. So there is insufficiency comparatively in thestudy on the images of sound. But, as Wang Anshi wrote in his poetry <PUSAMAN>“Iwoke up at the early evening when the new moon just come out, the cry of the orioletouched my heart deeply!” The cries of the oriole after the noon nap helped the poet toexpress his feeling and the realm of his poetry. This is the great effct of the sound imagesin the poetry, which is so different from the colors.There are many kinds of sounds in Tang and Song poetry. There are the sounds ofnature, such like: the sound of rain, the sound of cuckoo, the sound of cicada, the sound ofcricket; and there are the sounds of this world, such like: the sound of drum, the sound ofstrings, the sound of songs, the sound of water clock, the sound of selling flowers, and thesound of pounding clothes; and even there are the sound of another world, such like themusic of fairy and the cry of the ghosts. Sometimes the sounds are big,and sometimes theyare indistinct, sometimes they are clear and melodious, and sometimes they are sob andwhimper. They filled every space in the present and the past, in the reality and the dream.They are aboundant, extensive, active and vivid. Through them, we can feel clearly theemotions of poets and the beauty of poetry’s realm. And the study through the sounds alsooffer us a new angle of view to study the poetry.This thesis has seven chapters, and the writer chooses the structure ofgeneral—component—general to carry out the statement. Firstly the writer gives aall-round perspective to all kinds of sounds in Tang and Song poetry, then the writeranalyses some classical cases, and finally the writer generally states the effects of thesounds in Tang and Song poetry. Chapter one gives all-round perspective to the images of sounds in Tang and Songpoetry. The writer chooses four points of view to talk about the sounds in the poetry: dayand night, seasons, regions and authors. Regarding day and night, the writer mainlyanalyzes the light and the environment’s effect on different sounds, and how the soundsshow the day and night; Regarding the seasons, the writer mainly analyzes the differentsounds of four seasons, and the seasoning elements’ effect on the sounds, and the writerfocuses on the sounds of Spring and Autumn. As for the regions, the writer chooses“Southwest of China, southern regions of Changjiang river, and northwest of China” toanalyze the relationship between the region and the sound; As for the authors, the writerchooses Qiji Xing and Wenying Wu this two poets whose personalities are totally differentto analyze the different expresstions about the sounds of different poets.Chapter two to six are case study. They are the main part of this thesis. The writerrespectively discusses seven sounds: the sound of rain, the sound of warbler, the sound ofcuckoo, the sound of cicada, the sound of cricket, the sound of drum, and the sound ofstringed panio.Chaper two discusses about the sound of the rain. The writer chooses to discuss therich feeling about the rain, mainly focusing on the different feeling of listening to to therain in different seasons and in different situations of life. The writer also discusses aboutthe beautiful realm of the sound of rain. Those beauty and those feelings are mainlyexpressed through the following traditional models of seeing and listening to the rainfalling on the aoricot’s flower, on the lotus, on the phoenix tree, on the plantain banana, onthe snowy plum forest; and also through the model of listening to the rhythm of falling rainat the post station, in the traveling boat, in the house among the mountain and field, in thefishing boat, on the bed with friends, and in the night with the light on.Chapter three discusses about the sound of the warbler. The writer starts with thehistory of using the sound of the warbler, and focuses on discussing the beauty of thesound of the warbler and the usage of it in Tang and Song poetry. The beauty of thewarbler’s sound is expressed through the following models: warbler’s cry in the earlymorning, warbler’s cry in the litte yard, werbler’s cry among the waves of willow branch,and werbler’s cry beyond the flowers. Meanwhile chapter three also discusses the sence of Spring, the beauty of realm, the beauty of charming, and the cultural expert in singingand dancing in the sound of the warbler.Chapter four discusses about the sound of the cuckoo. Through discussing threelegends about cuckoo: A man named Duyu became a cuckoo after his death, the cuckoocried out blood, the cuckoo cry to urge you to go home, this chapter discusses about theculture of tragedy, the culture of history and the culture of region which are expressedthrough the cry of the cuckoo. Meanwhile this chapter also focuses on analyzing thecultural beauty of models like:Tijue urging the coming of Spring, Zigui cry for the moon,and the bloody cry shows going home.Chapter five contrastly discusses the sound of cicada and the sound of cricke, andbased on this ground the writer also discuses about the sense of seasons in the sounds ofinsects. Starting from the culture of cicada and cricke beyond the sound, this chapter showstheir differences through comparing the different realms their sound made, and throughcomparing the sounds of cicada and cricke at different time, at different place, and with thediffernet intimacy with man. And based on their common ground as insects of season, thischapter also discusses about the sense of season, especially the sense of autumn in thesound of cricke and cicada.Chapter six contrastly discusses the sound of drum and the sound of stringed piano,and based on this, the writer also discusses about the vulgar beauty and the refined beautyin those musical sounds. This chapter starts with the elementary knowledge of drum andstringed piano, then compares their common grounds and their individual characters, inorder to show the noisy of the drum and the quietness of the stringed piano; and basing onthis to discuss about the vulgar beauty of the drum and the refined beauty of the stringedpiano. Of course this differences are not fixed forever, they can be changed according tothe emotions that the authors want to express through the sounds. So sometimes in theTang and Song poetry, the sound of drum can be refined, meanwhile the sound of stringedpiano can be vulgar..Chapter seven generally discuss about the function of sounds in Tang and Song poetry.It mainly analyzes the relationship between the images of sounds, the expression ofemotions, and the molding of poetic realms. The sound is the medium to stir up the emotion, and it is also the carrier of the emotion. So it can cleanse the inner world of thepoets, and at the same time it is dominated by the emotions of the poets. The soundsmolds many beautiful realms through ensembling with other sounds and throughconnecting with colors. Among all these beautiful realms, the best one is “deep silence”.The sounds in the poetry adds a fresh and vivid world to the colorful world for us.Together with the poets’ complicated changeable inner hearts and with the poetry’s tunefultemperament world, the sounds in the poetry draw a long poetic roll which is interweavedwith laugh and sadness, with vicissitudes of life and plain of life.