LuoYin was a celebrated poet of the last period Tang Dynasty. It was disordered at those days, and he come under the influence of Confucian theory, and he cared greatly for his nation and society. His Poem on history and Poem recalling antiquity were ...
LuoYin was a celebrated poet of the last period Tang Dynasty. It was disordered at those days, and he come under the influence of Confucian theory, and he cared greatly for his nation and society. His Poem on history and Poem recalling antiquity were also related to social issues. Both of them are based on historical facts. They mainly aim at satirizing the present with the past. We will see the satiric meaning and writer's mentality in this paper.
This paper has four chapters :
The first chapter, introduction which contains the background characteristic of times, characteristic of LuoYin's poems and motives & object of this study.
The second chapter tells about the satiric meaning of Poem on history and Poem recalling antiquity. We can see the fact that he had satirized the last period of Tang Dynasty in his poems with the dissipated and unashamed former emperors. In addition, we can also see the writer's care for his nation and people through his satiric view from Poem on history and Poem recalling antiquity.
The third chapter mainly shows the writer's mentality from his Poem on history and Poem recalling antiquity by the division into 'sentimentality', 'resentment' and 'ridicule'. Sentimentality and resentment are the general factors of Poem on history and Poem recalling antiquity, but ridicule is the unique feature of LuoYin's poems.
The last chapter is the conclusion. We can see the importance of LuoYin's poems through the study on satiric feature and writer's view & mentality from his Poem on history and Poem recalling antiquity.