| dc.description.abstract | The Diet Discourse of Taiwan Modern Poetry
Abstract
The title of this study is “The Diet Discourse of Taiwan Modern Poetry.” This study focuses on the modern poetry literature published after 1949 in Taiwan, including poets’ monographs, annual selected poetry, and poetry magazines. This study investigates the taste, the media and the metaphor in the diet poetry, and the thinking, social culture and national consciousness reflected in the content of diet poetry. The research covers the aspects of times, places, history, social culture, psychology of literary creation, sensation of nostalgia, and the friendship in the area of diet culture.
The thesis is organized as follows. Chapter 1 describes the research motivation, the literature reviews, and the research method. Chapter 5 provides conclusive remarks. Chapter 2, 3, and 4 are the core parts of this thesis which are summarized as follows. Chapter 2 describes the “expression of ideals” and Chapter 3 describes the “expression of lyrics.” The materials selected in Chapter 2 and 3 are related to the subject of diet, description of diet, and expression of the ideals and lyrics via drinking or eating.
Chapter 4 explores the literatures created by the famous poets, including Jiaotong, Jiang Wen-Yu. This chapter illustrates the art and aesthetics of their high quality poetry related to diet. By analyzing the writing techniques used in their diet poetry, including metaphor, playing, image, and ambiguity of language, this chapter demonstrates: (1) the love and words in Jiaotong’s poetry, (2) the images of the sense of vision and hearing, the reappearance of symbols, the issues of politics, history and women in Jiang’s poetry, (3) the aesthetics of sympathy and life in Yu’s poetry.
There are some poems which are related to the description of taste of diet and the behavior of drinking or eating published in the poetry anthologies or magazines. The presentation techniques and the writing strategies in these poems are appropriately analyzed and cited in each chapter.
Keywords：Diet poetry, Diet discourse, Diet literature, Taiwan modern poetry, Parody,
Metaphors
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