On Yu Dafu's autobiographical poetic writing in Poems on the Broken Family
Before the publication of Poems on the Broken Family,Yu Dafu added annotations to the series of poems,expressing emotions and narrating through annotations.The combination of poetry and prose complements each other.At the same time,the content of the national calamity and the marriage crisis are intertwined,forming a set of sorrowful and touching autobiographical poems.Yu Dafu created Poems on the Broken Family by using old style poetry and recorded many details of the family destruction with annotations,which is not only a manifestation of his"self pity"personality,but also an instinctive choice of Yu Dafu as a"bone lover"who uses poetry as his tongue and accompaniment.Poems on the Broken Family is a first-hand document for understanding the"Marriage Incident of King Yu"and also an important document for studying Yu Dafu's old style poetry creation.The autobiographical writing in Poems on the Broken Family has promoted the development of old style poetry and autobiographical poetry.
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