Abstract
The poetic theory of Yu Yan, a Ci-poetry theorist from the Ming Dynasty, is mainly presented in his Commentaries on Ci-Poetry from Yuan Garden, in which he claimed that shi-poetry, ci-poetry and qu-poetry had the same origin with ci-poetry as an indispensable developmental phase in literature along the musical aspect. He maintained that ci-poetry declined due to the loss of music for which ci-poetry functioned as the lyrics. He also demonstrated the different tastes of the Northern Song and the Southern Song Dynasties and examined the thematic approaches, styles and compositions in different forms of ci- and qu-poetry. It could be argued that Yu Yan's poetic thoughts signaled the transformation of poetic studies in late Ming Dynasty.
First Page
177
Last Page
185
Recommended Citation
Yue, Shuzhen. 2015. "On Yu Yan's Poetic Thoughts." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (5): pp.177-185. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss5/14
