杜甫の秦州詩

Abstract

There is a great difference between Du Fu's poems of the early and the later period. This change occurred in Huazhou, when after being demoted by the central government he voluntarily resigned from his government post. At that time, he had already given up trying to realize his ideals through politics. After he had left Huazhou, he went to Qinzhou near the western frontier. In Qinzhou he searched for a new way of creating literature, and found it in the new point of view where he perceived himself to be in a symbiotic relationship with nature, which differed from the writing based on righteousness typical of the previous period. Du Fu left Qinzhou and subsequently wandered in the Sichuan and Jiannan regions. This travel resulted in many excellent poems of the later period which are characterized by the new point of view on literature created in Qinzhou.