Xu Hun Seven Verses Creation Theory

XuLlun, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty, has been receiving both praise and criticism for his poems, He devoted all his life to the creation and study of the modem style poetry, characterized by his high achieve- ments in QiLu , for which he was most influential. As yet no complete and systematic study to his poems has been done. This thesis is to offer a few commonplace remarks by way of introduction so that valuable opinions will spring up. The whole thesis is divided into four parts. In the first part, Xullun?s life experience, his personal ideal and his poetic creation are generally in- troduced. It is especially pointed out that throughout the post Tang dynas- ties, his poems received conflicting comments of both good and bad, yet were adopted and given importance to by the Tang Dynasty poem selec- tions . According to different subject matters, the second part expouds the deep implications of his poetic themes in the aspects of great events of his day , meditation on the past, battles on the frontiers, life in seclusion and separation from kins and friends . The third part relates and discusses the artistic features of his QiLU in even line rhymes, tone, structure and style . The fourth part deals with the developments of QiLu , the state of the late Tang Dynastys poetice creation and his adopted poems in the Tang Dynasty poem selections . Based on the above description, his literary posi- tion and influence of his QiLu are expounded and given special attention. At last, the thesis concludes that XuHuns QiLu have the following antistic features wide subject matters, profound contents , mature tonal patterns andprecise thpoes.Xu Hun did his contribution to the maAnt, JoveloPment and perfec-tion of the and he was well established in the TangDynasty poetry. His in-fluence is deep and wide and he is wOmp of a celebrity among the QiLtiinthe Tang Dynasty.