初唐 虞世南 詩의 唐詩史上의 지위

Abstract

Yu Shi-nan(zi Bo-shi, a native of Yue-zhou) was born in the second year of Yong-ding Reign of the Chen Emperor Wu-di(558) and died in the 12th year of Zhen-guan Reign of the Tang Emperor Tai-zong(638). In this paper, I study the Yu Shi-nan’s place in the history of Tang Poetry by examining how his 24 poems, written in the early 7th century, exerted influence on the Early Tang and High Tang poetry, claiming that Yu Shi-nan’s poetry is not the palace poetry but the court poetry. Yu Shi-nan’s works in Tang Dynasty have been under the influence of Southern Dynasties courtly style like those in Su Dynasty. But in many cases, unlike any other court poets, he put spirit and passion into his court poems standardized by elaborating his observations and experiences of real life into the plot and expressing them beautifully. Such poems influenced Du Fu to some degree. Yu Shi-nan composed border poems based on his literature experience. His poems often speak of the pain of soldiers toward the front, praising soldiers’ heroism and patriotism, and inspiring to them the ambitions for success and faith in a certain victory, fraught with robust spirit and heroic mood. No pentasyllabic poems in conforming with regulated form rules were found in his works. However, generally they were composed of the rules of tonal antithesis and couplet parallelism, contributing to the development and completion of the “new style” forms. To sum up, it can be said that Yu Shi-nan’s works took the lead in the formation and development of Tang poems by merging the so-called “North and South poetical styles” in the stage of transition from North and South Dynasties poems in the 7th century to the Early Tang and High Tang poetry. In this regard, it is considered that Yu Shi-nan’s poetry had its important place in the history of Tang poetry.