The Research On Women Poems Jiaqing-Daoguang Period Of Qing Dynasty

The Jiaqing-Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty was regarded as a crucial transitional period from prosperity to decline for the government of Qing Dyansty--the prosperity is the rein of Emperor Kangxi and Qianlong,with the reconstruction and stability of traditional social system;while the decline is historic turning points in the dynastic change.Having witnessed the chaos in the dynastic change from Ming to Qing Dynasty,the Qing Dynasty rebuilt the county's politics,economy and morality,which was conducive to the formation of talented women culture;the dynasty replacement had germinated women's self-conscious and social awareness at that time.The whole social background provided a great foundation for the cultivation of Guchun's and Wuzao's unique personality and splendid accomplishment.The distinctiveness of the two individuals had a significant representativeness.From the emotional life of the poetesses,Guchun represents prospering group of women,while Wuzao represents frustrated and regretful group of women.From social classes and ideology,Guchun's status and educational background provide her the priority to represent the women in upper status.Her poetry is full of personality and graceful.Wuzao,representing the women in lower status,was born in a merchant family,thus she is more likely to be influenced by the new democratic consciousness.Her poetry clearly reflects the desperate desire for the independent choice of love and marriage,but stuck in emotional fluctuation to helpless submission.Based on the position,perspective and experience of women,the thesis takes original documents as a starting point and profoundly analyzes the poetry of Wuzao's and Guchun's to vividly present individual life and unique emotional experience,and to roughly reflect the self-writing of the poetesses in the rein of Jiaqing-Daoguang in Qing Dynasty.The thesis includes four chapters:chapter one is the overall review of the poetesses in Qing Dynasty,with summarizing the development of women's poetry,introducing the living circumstances and state of the poetesses in the rein of Jiaqing-Daoguang in Qing Dynasty,and discussing the biography and the accomplishment in poetry of Guchun and Wuzao respectively.Chapter two discusses the emotions in the self-writing poetry by analyzing the poetry of Wuzao's,Gutaiqing's and other poetesses' in Qing Dynasty.For one thing,poetesses in QingDynasty expanded the scope of women's self-writing.The poetesses not only extended the previous self-writing works of boudoir worries,but also written quite a few poems with distinctive aesthetic implications in it.For another,in the self-writing poems,these poetesses thought deeply about the social character of women and showed their helplessness toward the ideology of male domination.Chapter three compares the self-writing works between females and males.Section one compares the contend and theme of those works,which in common all written about female's lovesickness but on the contrary reflected the vulnerable love from female's perspective and the mild and indirect love with profound hope from male's perspective.Section two is about the comparison of writing perspectives.In the perspective of male's,women are the objects of imitation and women's subjectivity is often neglected.While,in the perspective of female's,women stand for itself and women's subjectivity is highlighted.Chapter four is the overall evaluation of self-writing works of the poetesses in Qing Dynasty.