Abstract
"To Be a Poet in The Spare Time" was a verse from Han Yu (768-824), and he praised Xi Ba with this verse. From North Song Dynasty, some people made it as an independent topic to express their own opinions. And some people even add their own understandings to Han Yu, which lead to the confusion about quoting and annotating. They had two explanations about the verse, poem was less important than essay, or poem was less important than government affairs and moral integrity. The former reflected the poetics of Ou Yangxiu (1007-1072) and others, and the latter continued traditional values of ancient people. The action which attaching importance to the allusion and annotation was the important reason of misunderstanding real intention, and it also ignored the original mean of this verse. Additionally, in the process of borrowing this verse to create new poetry, the later generations continued the poetic expression when they used this verse, and it more closed to the original intention of Han Yu.
First Page
32
Last Page
39
Recommended Citation
Xiong, Xiang. 2017. "On The Misunderstanding and Reception of "To Be a Poet in The Spare Time"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 37, (4): pp.32-39. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol37/iss4/7
