Research On Du Fu’s Parting Poems

"As always the romantic fear adieu the most". For thousands of years, literati and poets wrote numerous parting poems for the heart-breaking time. Thousands of years later, these parting poems are still touching. Du Fu lived in the riches-to-rags era of Tang Dynasty. He witnessed the flourishing and decline of the Tang Dynasty, witnessed the damage taken by the rebellion of An Lushan and Shi Siming, witnessed the miseries bred by the wars to the common. Parting is not unusual for people in war frequent years. Du Fu created many parting poems in his displaced life, as many as134. In different stage of Du Fu’s life, his parting poems have different feelings. Meanwhile his parting poems change the way of traditional parting poems which write in an abstract way, to write them in a realistic and concrete way. But the concern for his country and people in his parting poems never change. His parting poems inherited and developed the Wei Jin Dynasty’s farewell party poems, showing feature that different things and different feelings could be written into parting poems. Du Fu’s parting poems become a model of parting poems in the prolonged course of Chinese parting poem’s development.This thesis tries to conduct an intensive study of Du Fu’s parting poems:Chapter One discusses the relation between Du Fu’s experiences in different stages of life and his creation of parting poems, and divides Du Fu’s parting poems into four sections according to his creation of parting poems:first, wandering in the capital of the country; second, rushing to the whereabouts of the emperor and being a imperial court official; third, living in Cheng Du, fourth, roving in Kuizhou and JingXiang. After the sorting in this chapter, we can better understand the different contents of Du Fu’s parting poems in his different life stages and the consistent patriotism in his parting poems.Chapter Two is closer examination of parting objects in Du Fu’s parting poems, specifically divided them into three categories, namely, friends who are imperial court officials, relatives and monks, and take Yan Wu, Zheng Qian etc. who has a close relationship with Du Fu for example for specific analysis, in order to explore the different feelings expressed in Du Fu’s parting poems in his different stages of life when he bade farewell with person who had different identities.With the overall grasp of parting poems of Du Fu in Chapter One and Chapter Two, the third chapter tries to examine the content, forms and artistic features of Du Fu’s parting poems in the prolonged course of Chinese parting poem’s development, in order to explore the inheritance and development of the Wei Jin Dynasty’s farewell party poems. The first section is to sort through the development situation of parting poems of Tang and pre-Tang. The second section is the inheritance and development of Du Fu’s parting poems on the Wei Jin Dynasty’s farewell party poems. The inheritance specifically expressed in five aspects, namely, the specific titles, the specific characters, specific scene and its length; the development is manifested more genuine feelings and richer content.The fourth chapter is the analysis of the other features of Du Fu’s parting poems. Some parting poems of Du Fu put forward specific strategies of ruling the country which make them look like the memorials dedicated to the emperor, some narrate the stories of his friends fluently like biographies of his friends, some encourage his friends sincerely.The appendix is a list of Du Fu’s parting poems, Qiu Zhaoao’s Poems of Du Fu are used for reference.