杜甫の馬・鷹の詩について

Abstract

From many points of view Tu Fu's poetry may be said to be rich in creativity. In this study, the author has selected those poems of Tu Fu which deal with horses and hawks, and attempted to discover what is new in Fu's treatment of these themes. First it may be noted that the themes themselves are comparatively new in poetry (shih). Though they were often treated in works in the f u or rhyme-prose style, there appear to be few poems on the subject before Tu Fu. Tu Fu, however, wrote many poems on the subject, employing a variety of forms, e. g. 7-word folksong style, or poems to accompany pictures. A second point to note is the extreme vividness and realism of Tu Fu's descriptions and the subjectivity with which he handles the theme. In this respect his work differs from the impersonalized descriptions characteristic of the few poems on the subject by earlier writers. Tu Fu not only describes his horses and hawks with striking realism, but injects his own emotions and responses into the scene. The author concludes with a consideration of what connection the theme of horses and hawks might have had with Tu Fu's personality and thought.