晩唐 雍陶의 시 연구

Abstract

Yong Tao, a poet of the Late Tang, was a native of Yunshan雲山(Chongqing), lived temporarily in Chengdu成都(Sichuan). It's estimated that he was born in around 800 and died in around 855. Yong Tao passed the jin-shi examination in 834. 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, which were too low in position for him to think that he has accomplished his desire in his life. 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. Yong Tao's more than 140 extant poems, most of which consist of the regulated forms, especially a Chinese quatrain with seven-character lines, can be divided into five groups. The first group revealed the sufferings of the common people due to a war. The second one denounced the corruption and incompetence of the sovereign. The third one poured out complaint of his ill fate, mostly due to his repeated failures in the jin-shi exam and his having no one to turn to. The fourth one expressed his homesickness in the wake of the long residence in a strange land. The fifth expressed the pursuit of retirement, which was born for being disappointed with politics. I will say that one of the most distinctive characteristics of his poems is that Yong Tao had successfully expressed current events and social problems in a Chinese quatrain with seven-character lines, which in the past was mainly used to describe personal certain emotions. It is considered that such a distinction gave his poetry its place in the history of the Late-Tang.