A study of Yu Guang-Zhong oceanic poetry (1948-2008) / 余光中海洋詩研究(1948-2008)

碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 海洋文化研究所 / 99 / From 1949 afterward in Taiwan, Yu Guang-Zhong has been a distinctive poet when referring to the history of modern poetry. Epochs wax and wane throughout his creation process. Virtually, he has undergone all the developments of contemporary Taiwan poetry and by all means has had a significant role to play.
Of all Yu Guang-Zhong's literary work, the accomplishment in poems is the most widely known. As Huang Wei-liang said, “Yu Guang-Zhong has an origin from Chinese literary tradition. Moreover, he adopts western concept of art. His contribution in New Poetry parallels that of Du Fu, who created the regulated verse Lushi.” From 1948 to 2008, Yu Guang-Zhong published 19 poetry anthologies. The creations on modern poems have surpassed one thousand, ranging from nostalgia, love, dear ones, historical culture, environmental protection, ocean, and so on.
Navigating on the risky sea of Taiwan’s modern poetry, many vessels have been swallowed by the monstrous waves because the steerers fail to operate the rudders. However, Yu Guang-Zhong's creation style, like a light house , illuminates the dark sea and leads the way for the stray ships. He elaborately brings his work into existence without playing the nihility in writing, for his knowledge of East and West enables him to innovate resourcefully. In his marine poems before 1974, the sea symbolized not only hope and illusions for the future but also faltering and baffling for the loss of directions. After 1974, the dwelling in sea-bordering Hong Kong and Gaoxiong infused the poet the marine reality, in which the real-life touch of his ocean poems were inspired. The Gaoxiong phase, above all, was the time Yu Guang-Zhong returned to realism. As was shown in the depiction of Taiwan’s southern ocean, whether the oceanic portrayal or the maritime illustration, the marine poems were enthusiastic eulogies that spoke for the tangible existence.
The author admires Yu Guang-Zhong’s lifelong creation in that his nautical characterization vividly mixes the implicit yearning of the time with the amusement of the seascape. Such is the case of this study, aiming to cause more public attention to Yu Guang-Zhong’s marine poems.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/099NTOU5274005
Date January 2011
CreatorsHsin-Fen Chen, 陳杏芬
ContributorsChih-Hsiung Wu, 吳智雄
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format222

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