dc.description.abstract | The poetry of Qing Dynasty has its style and features in time. The landscape poetry of early Qing, in particular, was able to embody the emotional thinking and aesthetic sense of the age of turmoil, and deserves research. There has been research in the landscape poetry of Qing Dynasty with considerable amount of findings; yet most of the efforts have focused on a small number of major poets and left others, who are worth dedicating oneself to and uncovering, untouched. And example is Qu Dajun, the subject of research of this paper, who was a distinctive poet of landscape poetry in early Qing. Well known in the circle of poetry, Qu was recognized as the leader of the “Main three in Ling-nan”. This is what the author bases on to set a research theme of Qu Dajun and his landscape poetry.
This paper unfolds in two directions, the first focuses on Qu the person: Chapter Two depicts Qu’s life, in an attempt to understand his thinking of loyalty and noble character from his family background, association with people and writing. Chapter Three explores the background for Qu’s literature creation, trying to understand the features of his poem writing from his era, being a survivor of the previous dynasty, the local cultural, his literary perspective and of whom he followed in creation.
The second focuses on Qu’s landscape poetry: Chapter Four discourses Qu’s inheritance to landscape poetry, illustrated by the characteristics of landscape poetry of the previous periods and what was unique to that of the early Qing. Chapter Five analyzes the contents of his landscape poetry, probing its deep and profound filling by comparing his experiences, devotion and the places he had traveled. Chapter Six analyzes the artistic features of his landscape poetry, discussing in the dimensions of creating skills, ideological expression and style to understand his flexible artistic skills of landscape poetry more specifically and in depth, and that the intense romantic color is the most outstanding feature of his poetry. Chapter Seven generalizes the evaluation, including the importance, of Qu’s poetry; his achievement in landscape poetry was literally brilliant, with which Qu both carried on the tradition and made development enough to affect the subsequent creation of landscape poetry. In terms of importance in the field of poetry, Qu was not only the leader of the Main three in Ling-nan, but also made a distinct existence among poets of the early Qing, occupying a place equally significant as those of Gu Yan-Wu and Wu Chia-Chi.
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