| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 國語文學系 === 95 === Wang Wei, also named Mojie, was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi. He passed the Imperial Examination and was conferred as a Jinshi. An honorary laurel was awarded for his greatest contribution in poetry. Wang Wei not only was a famous poet but also a painter and a musician. He became a pious Buddhist after he reached middle age. His well-known composition of Yulungpao enhanced his reputation and earned him a position as an officer, responsible for music. However, he also had political ambitions. Due to the influence of the Buddhism and the death of his wife, he decided to isolate himself from society; in particular during the period following the rebellion led by An Lushan, he wrote many popular poems.
The poetry of Wang Wei can be categorized by themes: nature, meditation, memory, frontier, political reform, offerings, sendoff, mourning and miscellaneous. His style can be reserved, dainty, spiritual, natural, harmonious, forceful or heroic.
The study is divided into eight chapters: the first chapter introduces the motivation, purpose, method, approach, scope, limitation and literature review. The second chapter describes the space-time background, his life. In the third chapter, the category of his poetry is divided, based on functions, i.e. system reform, offering, sendoff, mourning and misc. Related literatures are examined to analyze the cultural content. And in the fourth chapter, the category is divided based on content, i.e. nature, meditation, memory and frontier. Related literatures are examined in order to analyze the cultural content. Generally, the image is an important medium with which to express a poet’s emotions, and how Wang Wei handled his poetic images, is analyzed in the fifth chapter. The study method is to list the key words that appear often in the poems and analyze and generalize them. The sixth chapter describes how Wang Wei put the music and painting skills into the poems and created a world full of Zan and emotion. Wang Wei was a poet, painter, calligrapher and musician, a notable artist in the Tang Dynasty. To appreciate his poetry, we have to understand how he integrated all of these elements together and formed the works by employing various skills. His poetic style and artistic characteristics are generalized in chapter seven, and his historic orientation is concluded in chapter eight.
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