On The Three Poets Whose First Names Are Luo Of The South Of The Changjiang River

On the last stage of Tang Dynasty, there was an army of poets who were born in poor families. They were down and out in all their born days and led wondering lives in alien lands for a long time. They had talent but no opportunity to use it, so they chose to release their grief and indignation by composing poem. Some of them narrated their own fortune, while some disclosed the evil and urgent problems of the society, no matter how, they have portrayed a vivid picture of the society on the last stage of Tang Dynasty. Among them, the"Three Poets whose first names are Luo of the South of the Changjiang River"were the flowers of the generation. But the research on this colony is neither comprehensive nor systematized until now.This disertation mainly studies the"Three poets whose first names are Luo of the South of the Changjiang River"and is departed into two parts.The first part is a textual research of the colony. This part includes three chapters. Chapter one is to differentiate and analyze two concepts—"Three Poets whose first names are Luo"and"Three Poets whose first names are Luo of the South of the Changjiang River". In this chapter, we may make clear such issues as the three poets'respective native places, the reasons why they were famous, and the mutual relationship among them. Chapter two is a research on Luoye's whole life. Chapter three pays attention to their works and it is divided into three sections. Section one is a comparison on poetry between Luoyin and Luoye, discussing about the literary talent differences between the two poets; analyzing the artistic characteristic by reading up on the two subjects of their works—meditation on the past and expression of one's emotion on something. Section two is perusal of Bi Hong'er by Luoqiu. It studies up the images of women quoted in the poem, summarizes the author's attitude towards women, analyzes its artistic techniques, and considers it a lengthy work of seven-word-poem-sequence on the final stage of Tang Dynasty. Section three talks about the influence of the culture trait of Wu and Yue district on the colony.The second part is appendix. Section one is a textual research into some of Luoye's poems. Section two is Bi Hong'er by Luoqiu.In a word, the study on these problems above is to collate concerned data, to present a picture of their lives and the processes of their composing comprehensively and objectively, and accordingly, to evaluate their importance in the poetical phylogeny of Tang Dynasty.