晩唐 于濆의 시

Abstract

Yu Fen(zi, Zi-yi子漪), a poet of the Late Tang, was a native of Changan. It’s impossible to find out the date of his birth and death exactly. Yu Fen passed the jin-shi examination in 861, and in his later days held a minor post in Si-zhou泗州. He was prominent the gu-feng古風. He bitterly criticized the corruption of the times, and frankly expressed his own dissatisfaction. This thesis aims to analyze the themes of his poetry. Yu Fen’s 46 extant poems, all of which consist of old style poetry with five-word lines, can be divided into five groups. The first group revealed the sufferings of the common people due to a war. The second one disclosed a noticeable distinction between the rich and the poor. The third one showed a historical lesson through the medium of poem on history. The fourth one expressed grievance about his hard luck. The fifth one denounced the depravity of the sovereign and the wealthy class. Nearly all of his poetry have a close relation to showing the social inconsistency or reflecting the pain of the common people. It is rarely to find to poets who wrote so many social poems like Yu Fen of the Late Tang poets. In this way Yu Fen’s poems deserve to be called a mirror of society in the Late Tang.