The Research Of Wu Sheng’s Prose

Wu Sheng began to attract people’s attention because of his poetic works which have the rural characteristics.He is the pioneer and founder of the local color poems in Taiwan contemporary new poetry history,known as “the poet for clay” and “the rural poet”.The local color poems of Wu Sheng have profound influences on the development of Taiwan realistic new poems,and the important value of his prose has attracted more and more attention from the public.Wu Sheng writes poems and prose.Many of his prose and poems take concerted action and show the same theme and content.Moreover,the creation of prose makes the expression of his views and ideas more clearly and in-depth.Wu Sheng sticks to taking root in his hometown,and continues to focus on the life of rural laborers.He digs and praises their good qualities.Also,he has a deep sense of crisis and cares about the fate of Taiwan.He turns his critical eye on contemporary social abuses.And,he has a broad and deep view of social care.Furthermore,he is good at thinking and able to conduct self reflection and self criticism.These content has a clear expression in his prose.The precious thing in Wu Sheng’s prose is truth.His prose is widely praised because of his sincere feelings.The style of his prose is unpretentious.Taiwanese vocabulary and grammar interlards his prose which has narrative,reasoning and lyric.However,some of his prose lack of features of beautiful articles and slightly lack of artistry.As a whole,Wu Sheng’s prose works are deeply rooted in his native land.Like his poetry,his prose also displays the profound humanistic care.It has an important position in the Taiwan literary circles and even in the whole Chinese literary circles.This thesis will take the test of Wu Sheng’s prose as the breakthrough point and discuss his prose from four aspects on the basis of previous studies.Chapter One probes into Wu Sheng’s prose writing on tragic situation and beautiful humanity of rural areas of Taiwan,to show his continued attention to the work and life of farmers.Chapter Two focuses on Wu Sheng’s criticism of the bad social reality in Taiwan and sums up his views to these issues:the unreasonable agricultural policy,write terror,environmental damage,the harm of modern urban civilization to rural areas,the construction of culture and education,and the mentality of the escape.Chapter Three concentrates on Wu Sheng’s self reflection in his prose to show that Wu Sheng and his prose are frank and sincere.He conducts self criticism from these aspects:the friction between his mother and him,the neglected study,the confusion to choose a job,vanity and slow writing process.Chapter Four analyzes the phenomenon that Wu Sheng’s prose is often interspersed with Taiwanese,and explores the deep-seated reasons and characteristics.Although this thesis is still to analyze and comment on Wu Sheng’s prose from the ideological content and writing skills,it tries to express my feelings of reading on the basis of previous studies.