Study On Poetry Of Abandoned Wives In Pre-Qin And Han Dynasty

Poetry of abandoned wives narrates abandoned wives’experiences, describes their thoughts, feelings and psychological activities. As the source of poetry, the poetry of abandoned wives in Pre-Qin and Han Dynasty opened the basic pattern and form, and had a major impact on literature of abandoned wives’ subject. This thesis studies on the poetry of abandoned wives in Pre-Qin and Han Dynasty, and discusses the evolution of literature about abandoned wives. To be specific, the thesis is divided into the following sections.The introduction discusses the raise of issue and research significance, and ascertains the conception and research scope of poetry about abandoned wives. It lays the foundation for later discussion.Chapter one draws the basic outline of the poetry about abandoned wives in Pre-Qin and Han Dynasty."The book of songs" opened the basic pattern of spoony women and fickle men. The usage of "The book of songs" in Autumn Period and Qu Yuan’s system of analogy enlarge the poetry’s connotation; merge the couple’s love and relation among emperor and his ministers. The poetry about abandoned wives in Han Dynasty contains lively folk songs and elegant poetry written by literati, reflects the development of content and refinement of form.Chapter two discusses the image of abandoned wives characterized by the poetry about abandoned wives in Pre-Qin and Han Dynasty. Based on analyzing the image of abandoned wives in different periods, the thesis construes the underlying reasons by two dimensions of social background and literati’s ideal. Because of disparity of social status, bondage of marriage system and rampancy of human weakness, women incline to be passive in amativeness and marriage and be abandoned by fickle men. The characteristic of poetry of abandoned wives written by literati is closely linked with literati’s life, ideal and emotion.Chapter three analyses the expressional gimmick of the poetry about abandoned wives in Pre-Qin and Han Dynasty. The discussion contains three aspects of the arrangement of text structure, the usage of poetry’s imagery and the evolution of lyric and narration. Chapter four considers the most typical literary style and its developmental path. In this chapter, the thesis researches the literati’s poetry in Tang Dynasty and before and the popular literature in the Tang Dynasty and later. It tries to clarify the evolution of writing about abandoned wives in posterity.