Life Orientation and Conscious Writing：A Research of Su Shi’s Responding Poems to Tao Yuanming

• Main Authors: Wang, Szu-Chi, 王思齊
• Other Authors: Lee, Chen-Hui
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6exn8y

碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 中國文學系所 === 105 === Su Shi’s Responding Poems to Tao Yuanming’s Works (和陶詩) were not only the masterpiece of his later years, but well-known as the autobiographical writing by taking Tao as his model. This thesis focuses on Su Shi’s thoughts and interpretations in specific themes of Responding Poems to Tao Yuanming’s Works. By the profound reflections on life issues revealed in Tao’s poem, Su’s responding poems to Tao show his personality, self-reflection, and humanistic concerns, which presents the process of struggle with the dilemma and also indicates the special significance in Su’s poetry during the Lingnan period. This thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter One is the Introduction; Chapter Two Background of the Responding Poems to Tao’s Works discusses the details of the collection, including the form, content and spread as the basis of following chapters; Chapter Three The Search of Immortals and Spiritual Home focuses on Su’s reflection on the Taoist belief of immortals and the development of a dream called Chouchi (仇池). The viewpoint in Responding Poems to Tao’s ‘Reading the Book of Mountains and Seas’ (和陶讀山海經) and the portrait of Chouchi are not only the particular themes in Su’s poetry in later years, but also reflect his rational thinking about life; Chapter Four The consciousness and Prototype of Scholars are separated into three parts. First part is Su Shi’s response to three pieces of Tao’s In Memory of Historical Personages (詠史三首), which show his reviews about the official career. Second, through the analysis of Responding Poems to Tao’s ‘Mimicking an Old Style’ (和陶擬古) and Responding Poems to Tao’s ‘Untitled Poems’ (和陶雜詩), we can understand Su’s contradiction between being an official and being a hermit, as well as his academic mission which reveal the positive attitude toward life. Last, following the approach of Responding Poems to Tao’s ‘Returning to Nature’ (和陶歸園田居), Responding Poems to Tao’s ‘The Peach Colony’ (和陶桃花源) to Responding Poem to Tao’s Returning Home (和陶歸去來兮辭), we can observe how Su Shi adjusts his mental state to the difficult circumstances, which show his contemplation about the world and the philosophy of life; Chapter Five is the Conclusion. With the writing of Responding Poems to Tao’s Works, Su Shi’s fulfillment of searching for the value of life not only embodies the spirit of scholar-officials of the Song dynasty, but makes a subversion of exiled literati tradition.