A Research on Classical Characters in Yu, Kwang-chungʼs and Luo Fuʼs Poetry

• Main Author: 莊青憲
• Other Authors: 陳政彥
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/t7z2g4

碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 中國文學系研究所 === 107 === Yu, Kwang-chung was a well-rounded scholar with a variety of works. Yu was regarded as “the foremost of poets” by Yan, Yuan-shu because of his outstanding achievements and contributions especially on the development and writing of modern poetry. At first, Yu was influenced by Crescent Moon Society and later immersed himself in Modernism. Lastly, Yu returned to tradition and advocated Neoclassicism. Luo Fu borrowed from Surrealism. In early times, Luo Fu started form The Death of a Stone Cell, where the combination of surreal images formed the dense quality and obscure style of his poetry. In 1970s, Luo Fu went back to tradition and presented a mix of modernism and classicism in modern poetry. He had been influential for fifty years in poetic circles with plenty of quality works. Also, he was taken as “poetic magician” because of his magic expression. Both of poets migrated to Taiwan with the government of the Republic of China and committed themselves to the creation of modern poetry. During the development of modern poetry, the two poets had their own unique poetic perspectives and styles. In their modern poems, there is a quantity of depictions of classical characters. The thesis discusses the classical characters in the two poets’ modern poetry. The classical characters in Yu’s poems can be categorized into five types: “respect and praise to poets in history,” “praise and compassion to heroes and beauties,” “the use of figures of speech to express concerns of modern environmental issues,” “the inheritor of poetic spirits and arts in the new age,” and “the reflection and integration of new and old, and eastern and western cultures”. As for Luo Fu, he used classical characters to express four aspects: “the critical thinking of love,” “the image shaping of classical characters,” “nostalgia,” and “life journal”. Furthermore, both of them recorded their thoughts and feelings through the allusions of characters. Yu used such techniques as “the creative spirits of the classical fusing with the modern,” “visualization—the vivid and affectionate world of poets’ creation,” and “different expressions of one topic: the integration of poets’ life feelings” to shape what he thought of classical characters. As to Luo Fu, he used the following techniques, “the recreation of classical topics,” the strange and unexpected imagination,” the interesting combination of Chinese characters—the creation of poetry with hidden titles,” and “the traveling through times and the conversation between the old and the new” to express his opinions and interpretations toward classical characters. Through the two poets’ creation and rewriting of classical characters, the author of the thesis discovered their writing techniques and features, and made a conclusion at the end of the thesis. The author hopes future researchers would look into the topic from different perspectives.