Abstract
Poetry and fu (prosy ode) both flourished during the Tang dynasty, and thus with the mutual infiltration and development of poetry and fu, there was a phenomenon of using poetical lines in the title of fu, which influenced its content and purport. This phenomenon also reflected similarities and differences of poetry and fu in expressions and characteristics, and clearly revealed the trend of confluence of poetry and fu in the development of literary styles during the Tang dynasty. This article lists all the works in The Complete Fu of the Tang Dynasty that used poetry in titles and analyzes their intention and writing techniques. Some of them had the same purport as the original poetry, while some decontextualized the original for new purposes. By combining the writing techniques of comparison (bi), affective image (xing) and exposition (fu), these works simultaneously had the lyrical quality and artistic conception of poetry, and exhibited the strengths of fu in exposition and discussion. When the title of fu was a poetical line that described the scenery, fu extended unsaid content in the original poem by means of exposition, and at the same time established new space and tension through reasonable imaginative extension. This kind of fu exemplified fu's approach to poetry during the Tang dynasty, which reflected the vigorous vitality of the authors in exploring the feature and limit of literary styles.
First Page
110
Last Page
119
Recommended Citation
Tang, Haoyu. 2019. "An Analysis of the Phenomenon of Titling Fu with Poetry in the Tang Dynasty." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (4): pp.110-119. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss4/2
