「八哀詩」初探

Abstract

Dufu created a lot of the works of various materials for a lifetime. Among them, as befits “poet historian(詩史)”, he created many the works of the variety situations of the ages and personal biography. He created poems by using his true colors as “poet historian(詩史)” mainly in An-Shi rebellion and Kuizhou time. When he was in An-Shi Rebellion time, he created the works mainly revealed Dufu’s realistic conciousness in spite of war, and when he was in Kuizhou time, he created mainly reminiscent poems wrapping up history that was affected the fate of the conuntry and the historic event about his life. Dufu built to his own autobiographycal poetry, Meanwhile, wrote other peoples biography by using poems, ‘Ba Ai Shi’ that is a masterpiece. He pioneer the new form that made a biography to the materials of the poems through this work, and by that way he opened the new path that was a combination of “the poetry(詩)” and “the history(史)”. Overall, this work contained the contents of the critical biography that included a description and a review about personal historic sites, as well as the feelings of the poet to display holds. If we understand only historical contents of these poems, and if we disregard artistic features involved the perfect combination the poem and the history through poet’s ability to recognize and express, it is not desirable methods. Therefore, this study analyzes Dufu’s feature as “poet historian(詩史)” through the analysis of the contents of these poems and through the analysis of the artistic characteristics of these poems.