Title: Bai Juyi,the Tang Poet and His New Yuefu Poetry
Abstract: Bai Juyi,one of the famous Tang Dynasty poets,was for the idea of composin g New Yuefu poems with current affairs and the times in mind;to achi eve this end,he advocated the use of eulogies,satires,preludes and meta phors in poetic composition.However,as his purpose of writing poetry was toadmonish by satirizingonly,it follows that Bai expected th at the Son of Heaven would hear of his thoughts and the problems and evils of th e day,and the benevolent Emperor wou ld take proper measures towards alleviatin g the burdens of the populace and deliver them from their miseries.The fact that Bai placed his hopes on the supreme ruler of the c ountry alone shows the poet' s ideological limit.Bai' s satirical poems,couched in plain words,yet radical in intentio n,ran counter to the Confucius' aesthetic tradition of moderateness.Bai Juyi did this purposefully,for it was his goal of c reating a new poetic genre,which is militant and refreshing.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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