The Tang Dynasty Poetry, Of War

The educational circles begeins to study the war poetry of Tang Dynasty a little late. And the researchers mainly analyzes poetry of frontier fortress, but not war poetry. This paper tries to do a deeper analysis on the base of former study.All war-related poetries are chosen from "the Collected Poetry of Tang Dynasty" as the research object. After they have been carefully selected, all of war poetries are classified according to subjects, and then studies their arts features, background, and ideological content and so on, it tries to have a new look on war poetry of Tang Dynasty.After analyzing these war poetries, this paper illustrates that war poetry of Tang Dynasty possesses not only some excited and indignant and distressed poetries in its former half of times, but also a lot of realistic poetries which are full of war thinking and criticism on war in its left time. It pays much more attentions to the war poetry about the consciousness of fame and female in the war. Furthermore, this paper makes a study on the historical imagination of war poetry. The paper tries to understand the war of Tang dynasty on the base of analysis of its war poetry, and make clear the way that used by poets of Tang Dynasty to describe reality. The methods of study in this paper:Firstly, knowing that the previous studies are longitudinal ways, this paper takes the method of vertical and horizontal integration, and the former is the main one. Secondly, this paper has some special topics which are used to look the development of war poetry of Tang dynasty. Thirdly, this paper is used to link the study with history, which can make the reasoning credible. At last, this paper also uses some statistical data when it is necessary.There are five chapters in this paper. Chapter I:making clear the concept of war poetry, reviewing the research results in the past. This paper believes that war poetry is an open concept, if a poetry can describe a war, describe the attitude of people, reflect the feeling that comes from war, then it can be called war poetry, no matter this poetry is Realistic or Imagined. The past study about war poetry of Tang dynasty begins at 20's of last century, it has been 80 years from then on, but there are not so much academic achievements. Hu Yunyi, Su Xuelin and Hong Zan are three important researchers during this time. The newest paper on war poetry of Tang dynasty mostly come from Taiwan, mainland researchers always have a few academic publications.Chapter II of this article is an overview of war poetry of Tang Dynasty. The general characteristics of war poetry of Tang Dynasty are summarized after a comparatively full review of war in the history in the Tang Dynasty. It is generous as the main feature of war poetry before the rebellion of An and Shi, those poets having the experiences of the rebellion of An and Shi whose works have obvious changes in poetic style, that is from a positive poetry style gradually to a sad one, the poetry after the rebellion of An and Shi is a lot more realistic depictions, the variety of effects which the war brings are demonstrated.Chapterâ…¢of the paper mainly discusses the consciousness of fame in the war poetry of Tang Dynasty. Fame is a recurring word inside Tang vocabulary, through the analysis to the consciousness of fame inside the poetry, the paper thinks that the war poetry of the fame to which is not only praise, but also suspicion and denial. The changing attitude on the fame reflected in the war development of the Tang Dynasty and the changing attitude of the people to the war as well.Chapterâ…£of the paper is mainly about women's war poetry, and this chapter is one of the principal innovations of the whole article. Previous studies of women in the war poetry of Tang Dynasty lay stress on the boudoir, which research correlated with war poetry; however, it can not reflect the real status of the female in Tang Dynasty as they face the war. This article not only conducts a large number of studies on boudoir in early Tang Dynasty, more importantly, it makes a penetrating analysis of the war poetry in a realistically portrait way in middle and late Tang Dynasty, those poetries carries out an extensive description of women, which reflect the women's state of real life in the war, especially the women, as described by Du Fu, had not only reflected the image of the brutality of the war, but also reflected his concerns; on the fate of the country and the safety of the people.Chapter V studies the historical Imagination of the war poetry. Historical Imagination is a way of study in history area, after introducing it to the poetry study; Historical Imagination brings a new research perspective. Historical Imagination not only provides a creative way which makes their work the historical depth, but also inspires them to think of the war.Through the investigation, the paper tries to explore a more in-depth, comprehensive understanding, to make a breakthrough and innovations on previous research; especially it provides a development, a new examining angle for the contents and thoughts of the Tang Dynasty war poetry.