A Study of the Appearance of Natural objects in the Book of Odes

• Main Authors: Ya-ju Chiang, 江雅茹
• Other Authors: Yu-Fang Hsu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/dyc36k

博士 === 國立東華大學 === 中國語文學系 === 106 === There are totally two hundred and sixty pieces of natural and related objects which appear in the Book of Odes. Among these pieces, the themes or subject matters are mostly about compound images. The natural themes become the image description on describing natural objects and narrating facts after the observation, choosing and organization of the poets. Moreover, these natural themes turn out to possess the writing function of the symbolic meaning and analogies, which serve as a foil or accentuation to the theme. Although the piece of natural objectives in the Book of Odes does not concern the poets’ describing themes of poetic verses , and neither does it constitute the type of poetic verses on writing about nature, the following is worth further discussing through analyzing the theme of the natural objects: the relationship between natural objects and poets’ creation, and how the poets express their will and mind through images, 比興，discourse of phrases and sentences. The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons mentions “Poet feels the Objective Being Therefore Creates the Analogical Association Infinitely”, which says natural objects become the theme of creation by touching poets on their experience about beauty; in addition, natural objects inspire the motive to create and becomes the themes of creation. Objects are related to seasons, and the climate, the weather and animals and plants as well have close relationship with people’s life. Thus, this dissertation discusses and analysizes the research results and related literature theories from prior studies through analysizing, classifying, comparing and inducing to discuss and explore the poetic verses in the Book of Odes whose themes are related to natural objects. First, discuss the association with the natural objectives in the Book of Odes from the “perspective and creation” point of view. This is related to the thinking of feelings, association and inference. Second, analyze the writing on the natural objects in the Book of Odes from the viewpoint of “content” and “form” separatedly. Finally the conclusion is made that the natural objects come from he observation and imagination to the nature, which is also a theme and method of an analogy between people and things.