Abstract
The concept of "flavour" develops into an important category of Chinese ancient poetics, during the process of which poetry commentaries in Song Dynasty played an important role in enriching its connotation. The paper divides "flavour" into two categories in light of its application into genres. In one category, flavour is used to comment on the times and poetry style in general. In another category, it is used to comment on specific texts from four aspects of reason, emotion, context and object, and investigate its connotation. The paper has also explored the aesthetic characteristics of "flavour" from the perspective of its relation with other factors such as implicitness, plainness, and language, and claims that "flavour" is a kind of aesthetic quality implicitly conveyed in simple, accurate and expressive language in poetry.
First Page
49
Last Page
56
Recommended Citation
Huang, Aiping, and Xun Sun. 2012. "On the "Flavour" in Poetry Commentaries in Song Dynasty." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (5): pp.49-56. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss5/10
