The Use of Self-addressing Terms in Li Bai's Poems and Its Literary Significance
Self-addressing terms appeared around four hundred times in Li Bai's(李白)poems,and he used self-addressing terms more than all the other poets from the Early to the Heyday of the Tang Dynasty.His clever use of self-addressing terms emphasized his subjectivity as a poet,enhancing the connections of his self with the real society,the myriad existences in nature,and the ideal world.And this clever use also embodied an elevated sense of subject spirit.Specifically,this paper will focus on four points.First,through a juxtaposition of"I"and various types of"grand words"(大言),this paper presents the poet's intention to take the initiative and reconstruct social order.Second,this paper argues that Li Bai broke off the relation between the subject and the object with the use of self-addressing terms,and infused his self-emotion and inner vitality into the outside world,thus realizing the dominance of the object by the subject.Third,by means of repeatedly addressing his self,Li Bai broke the boundary of the other world,resolving the contradiction between the limitedness of the subject life and the endlessness of the object universe,thus fulfilling a transcendence of life.Fourth,by introducing the usages of self-addressing terms from Wen Fu(文赋)into poetic writing,Li Bai broke the boundary of genres,which demonstrated his creative self-awareness of"breaking the boundary of genres and letting them joining in each other".
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