| 英文摘要 |
Demotion and Exile are common in Chinese History. As early as in the era of Yao and Shun, Chinese Classics have recorded people who were expelled from the royal court and put into extreme frontier. From then on, demotion and exile were officials often experience. This paper examines the relationship between the official intellectuals and their poetical works and emphasizes that the demoted official often used poems to express their sufferings during their time of exile. They narrate their thinking of their family and the hardship of travel in their writings. Shen Ch’uan-ch’ I and Sung Chih-wen are the forerunner of demoted poet in T’ang dynasty whose poems are typical in the sub-genre of demotion and exile. First, they use poems to show their mental pain and suffocation. Second, they entrust their thinking of the emperor to the poems. Third, they write about their melancholy in their lyrical works. |