Published 2015
“…As for the content of these three poems,Wan Anshi adopted an objective point of view when describing Cai Yan's life story,Li Gang did not include any historical facts about Cai Yan,and Wen Tianxiang used Cai Yan's tragic experience to describe his own turbulent and vagrant life,which renders the three poems unique in their own way.In Wang Anshi's version of 'Hujia Shibapai',he employed the first person perspective to narrate the story,and sometimes he would change to the observer's
omniscient perspective.In general,his narrative tone and structure were quite similar to Cai Yan's 'Hujia Shibapai'.In Li Gang's version of 'Hujia Shibapai',the author deliberately removed the descriptions of Cai Yan's tragic life experience,and made use of the structure to narrate the history of the 'An Shi Rebellion'.Wen Tianxaing,on the other hand,encountered the same tragic experience of separation from his children as Cai Yan did, so his version of 'Hujia Qu' is characterized by his empathy.In this way,Wen Tianxiang not only portrayed a macro-historical picture,but also uttered his own endless frustrations and bitterness.This paper aims to focus on Li Gang's and Wen Tianxiang's versions of 'Hujia Shibapai' as well as a comparison with Cai Yan's original poem.In conclusion,Li's and Wen's versions have three significant features:(1)They were a continuation of Wang Anshi's 'Hujia Shibapai' writing style,which imitated how Cai Yan narrated her tragic life experience.(2)They established the literary status of Du Fu's by setting up his poems as the classic example of lines collection poems.(3)They realized the concept of 'reproducing history by poetry' and expanded the referral meaning of the concept.…”
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