英文摘要 |
Many writerswrote ocean-themed poemsin every dynasty of China. In these poems, Cao Cao(155-220)’s “Guan Cang Hai (“Gaze the Endless Sea”)” and Yang Guang(569-618)’s “Wang Hai (“Look Over The Sea”)” are “traveling and watching” type poemsand their contents reveal the kinghood. When it comes to studying ocean-themed poems, these two poems are worthy of beingdiscussed together.However, Cao Cao is a key figure of Jianan Literature, while Yang Guang lived in the period just before Tang dynasty. Both of them lived in the periodsor just before themthat wereimportant in Chinese poetryhistory.The styles and themes that they used, as well as the characteristics in describing the ocean are full of intensions of pioneering and succeeding. This paperexplainsthese two poems’ backgrounds when they were created. The methods include analyzing the structures of images and the usages of phrases to realize Cao’s kinghood of “watching the universe” and Yang’s imagination’s structureinimmortality, as well as analyzing theirstyles and rhymes to reveal the importance of two poems in Chinese poetryhistory, thereby provingthe aesthetics of “Guan Cang Hai” and “Wang Hai”in the transformations of politics, society, and literature during their authors’ periods.To sum up, both poems belong to Chinese traditional poeticcategories of “describing nature” or “editingarticles.” Amidthe influence of styles and contents, two poems’ kinghood has been revealedas “full of strength” or “subtle and elegent,” To be sure,these two poemsinclude different types of information of kinghood, as well as reveal the variationsof ocean descriptionsin traditional Chinese poetry. |