英文摘要
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Chu Tsu-mou (1857-1931) wrote twenty-six Ci poems in the Wang Jiang Nan format, commenting on Ci poetry and meter reference books written by poets in the Ching Dynasty and offering certain unique viewpoints on Ci poetry and literary history. Chu's first Ci poem comments on Qu Da-Jun's Ci poetry and involves the three greatest writers in Chinese literary history, more than two literary genres and three types of attitudes of intellectuals toward the fall of their nations/dynasty. This poem is rich in meanings and thus has been chosen by the author for further analysis in this paper. The title of the Ci poetry format "Wang Jiang Nan" has been elaborated and annotated by other scholars while the content of this poem has been left unexplored with respect to its two purposes of reconstructing the history of Ci poetry and mourning for the fall of the nation and the family, which will be the focus of the discussion in this paper. In this poem, Chu Tsu-mou juxtaposes Yu Hsin (513-581), Chen Tzu-Long (1608-1647), and Qu Da-Jun (1630- 1696). Through the inter-textual references among the development of Ci poetry and the history of literature as well as repetitive questioning and inferences, Chu elaborates the personal writing styles of the three writers, the evolution of the genre style of the Ci poetry and the sentiments for their elapsed dynasty and personal life, in order to disclose the two meanings of the poem.
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