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GREAT TANG POETS: DU FU (721-770) Du Fu's Genius: Poetic Language and Ambiguity |
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Robert Oxnam :: Du Fu's genius lies in his use of the Chinese language and its complexity of meaning. Paul Rouzer :: One of the main characteristics of Chinese poetic language is it's ambiguity. Most of the poets before Du Fu did not exploit ambiguity quite to the extent that he did. They tended to assume a fairly basic understanding of the various words that they used, so that there was no possibility of misinterpretation or multiple interpretations. Du Fu, however, played with Chinese poetic language. For example, he would take a word that was normally used as a noun in Chinese poetic language, and create a sentence where it could be functioning as an adjective, or as a verb, or as an adverb, leaving it up to the reader to decide how the line was created. |
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