명대 여성작가 단숙경(端淑卿)의 시사(詩詞) 초탐(初探)

Abstract

Duan Shuqing was a woman poet during the mid-Ming Dynasty, and is said to have written four volumes “Green window Poems(綠窗詩稿),” which, unfortunately, have not been preserved. Among her works, 14 poems remain in a local newspaper of Dangtu(當塗) and some anthologies published at that time, and only four of her verses remain today. Themes of poems written by Duan Shuqing can be largely divided into: impermanence of life, solitude, unhappiness, and natural scenery. Her poems reveal observation of an old woman toward the world, and mainly described the hardship of living away from her hometown or her appreciation of the local scenery. And many of the poems relate to Li Bai. All of the four verses written by Duan Shuqing describe parting, which shows different types of partings people experience in life. The sad and heart-breaking images of parting appear in different form in Dan’s verses, but they all convey a depressing and sorrowful atmosphere. Overall, poems and verses written by Duan Shuqing related to the futility and loneliness felt by an old woman and sadness of parting. The futility and loneliness was mainly revealed in the context of living away from her hometown and watching the natural scenery, while the sadness of parting was depicted as a song in her verses.