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Tang Dynasty is considered a prosperous time for Chinese poetry and Liu Yu-Xi is well-known for his poetry at that time. Bai Ji-Yi called Liu Yu-Xi as “the Notable and Liberal Poet”. Su Shi praised him as “No one can surpass him.” Liu Ke-Zhuang commented his poetry as “sentimental and leaving a pleasant aftertaste”. Most researches into Liu Yu-Xi focused on the appreciation and the artistic conceptions of his poetry. Therefore, this paper attempts to study his poetry from the perspective of language style, in hope to provide a new viewpoint based on syntax analysis.
Linguostylistics takes over the conceptions and methods of linguistics as a new channel to the study of literary classics. Some conventions still exist in the expressions utilized or created by poets and literators. With the analyzing techniques of ‘’Linguistic Stylistics”, poet’s expressions can then be critically described. This research will analyze the existing 167 seven-character-quatrains written by Liu Yu-Xi in use of the research institutes and methods. It is divided into six chapters:
Chapter 1: Introduction explains the research motives and research method, and confirms the version of poems.
Chapter 2: It briefly introduces Liu Yu-Xi’s background, political experience, value and contribution towards the world, based on the background of Mid-Tang Dynasty in order to have an overall understanding of Liu and his works.
Chapter 3: To study his style from the special rhymes utilizations such as the arrangement of the feet, the intonation displayed in verse, repetitions and same final’s repeating. For more specified to the unique structure of rhymes in Liu Yu-Xi’s seven-character-quatrains, the chapter records all verses and processing to statistics so that the characters of Liu Yu-Xi’s seven-character-quatrains will be declared in more scientific and practical way.
Chapter 4: To process the analysis on structures and utilities of the language with five expressions used in the poetry – “Repeating Phrase”, “Quantity Phrase”, “Color Phrase”, “Direction Phrase”, and “Phrase with Allusion” in order to define the style of phrases.
Chapter 5: To conclude the points mentioned in the above chapters, and to particularize the language style of Liu Yu-Xi’s seven-character-quatrains.
Key words : Liu Yu-Xi, seven-character-quatrain, language style, phonology and dictions
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