The Study of Female Writing in Li Bai Poetry

• Main Authors: Liu, Chien-Chun, 劉倩君
• Other Authors: Hsiao, Li-Hua
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38f4w2

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 中國語文學系語文教學碩士學位班 === 105 === Abstract In Chinese classic poetry, female writing has a very long history. Since the appearance of Poetry and Sao, many literature works have been taking female as their subject. Whether female is the writing subject or female is included into the writing contents, they cannot escape from the scope of male-centered literature. Therefore, in the poetry tradition of literary excellence featuring with using metaphor and analogy (bi and xing) to express wills, female writing becomes one of the ways that scholars express their wills, which hence generates the connection between female writing and bi-xing bailment in classic poetry. The Songs of Chu is the earliest work that takes female as the subject and reposes the poet’s personal feelings and wills by adopting metaphor and analogy (bi and xing). The poetry tradition of the bi-xing bailment -- “herb and beauty” originates from here. The female writing in Li Bai poetry is greatly affected by it. In addition, there are a lot of poems written by Li Bai imitating Yue Fu poems of Han Dynasty and Wei Dynasty, and many of which are related with female writing. Therefore, the female writing in Li Bai poetry also has the tradition of “herb and beauty” and Yue Fu poem’s feature of “creating in the sense of feelings from reality and specific incident”, which is also a specific manifestation of inheriting of the poetry tradition of literary excellence with the feature of bi-xing expressing one’s will. Based on the value judgement of “the poetry expressing one’s will”, the female writing in Li Bai poetry has the significant feature of reposing the poet’s personal feelings and wills. On one hand, it is related with the historical background and personal condition of Li Bai. On the other hand, it is necessarily concerned with his creation idea of inheriting the poetry tradition of literary excellence which uses bi-xing to express one’s will. Therefore, this thesis starts from the perspective of male-centered literature when studying the female writing in Li Bai poetry. The thesis explores the subject by classifying it into the scope of the writing tradition of Chinese literature, and analyses the historical background of the female writing in Li Bai poetry as well as types of the female writing. In addition, this thesis also discusses the situation of the female writing in Li Bai poetry from 2 aspects -- the tradition of “herb and beauty” and Yu Fu poetry, and tries to understand the values. Finally, this thesis also makes an analysis of the way of representation in the female writing in Li Bai poetry from the perspective of creating arts. It can also be learned that the female writing in Li Bai Poetry is not what the poet Wang Anshi said -- just a superficial remark of “depicting female”. As a matter of fact, the results of this research are beneficial to the better understanding of Li Bai’s bailment of his personal feelings and wills in his female writing and the reflection of practical significance. Meanwhile, this research also finds that the poet’s circumstances and the spirit of literary excellence can be read from the female writing poetry. Keyword：Li Bai, female, female writing, herb and beauty, metaphor and analogy (bi and xing) expressing wills, poetry of literary excellence, male-centered literature