On DU Fu's Drinking Poems in Qujiang and His History of Being Drunken after His Retirement from the Court
During DU Fu's tenure as an official in Chang'an,he suffered inner distress due to being estranged.After retiring from the court,he often drank in Qujiang,and wrote many drunken poems.Among them,the"Two Qujiang poems",such as"back from the court from day to day,I pawn spring gown","before the tomb the stone animals lie at rest",and"It's rare to live to seventy since olden day",etc,are DU Fu's rare wild and drunken words in his life.As a result,it also formed a unique style of drunkenness in DU Fu's poetry.However,"back from the court from day to day,I pawn spring gown",but exaggerated expression of DU Fu's emotion of"too lazy for attending to the court"."Before the tomb the stone animals lie at rest"is a lamen-tation of Emperor Xuanzong in his later years based on the story of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty."It's rare to live to seventy since olden day"expresses the helplessness of not being able to"follow the dictates of his own heart;for what he desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right".His crazy state of drunkenness is reflected in the virtual reality,in drunkenness with truth,which figuratively reproduces the influence of the Tang Dynasty's prosperity and decline on his life.Although it is a different tone of DU Poetry,it is actually DU Fu's writing style in the history of poetry.
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