晩唐 曹鄴의 시 연구

Abstract

Cao Ye, a poet of the Late Tang, was a native of Guilim桂林(Guangxi Province). It's estimated that he was born in around 815 and died in around 875. Cao Ye passed the jin-shi examination in 850. Before his passing the examination, he engaged upon his restless troubles, seeking the social connections necessary to gain a public recognition and high rank; after his passing, he held various provincial and capital posts. His own personal situation and the confusing backdrop of the Late Tang had made a great influence on his writing poems. This thesis aims to analyze the themes of his poetry. Cao Ye's 110 extant poems, nearly all of which consist of Gu-shi(ancient style poetry) and Yue-fu style with five-word lines, can be divided into six groups. The first group denounced the corruption and incompetence of the ruling class. The second revealed the sufferings of the common people due to a war. The third portrayed the sorrow and resentment of the women and girls of a household. The fifth expressed the pursuit of retirement, which was born for being disappointed with politics. The sixth expressed his friendship with his friends, most of them have failed in the jin-shi exam. His many poetry have a close relation to showing the social inconsistency or reflecting the pain of the common people. That is why he was called a realist in the Late-Tang. Most importantly, he played a bridging role in upholding the realism traditions between the Bai Ju-yi in the Middle Tang and Pi Ri-xiu in the Late Tang! In this regard, it is considered that Cao Ye's poetry had its important place in the history of Tang poetry.