閔怨詩,是指作家用女性的口吻,間或以旁觀者的角度,透過男女成情的表象,抒寫女性在情愛上的渴望與挫折,如寂寞、惆悵、憂愁、哀傷、懊悔、憤恨、怨怒等負面情緒。詩緣情而發,征婦閨怨詩的怨情細緻曲折,一般而言,情成表現較直接強烈的多帶「憤」、「怒」、「悲」、「愴」的情緒,而較含蓄的則與「哀」、「愁、」、「傷」、「憂」有關。另外,情因事而生,怨情的產生是由於兩地分離,而在戰亂頻仍、充滿入邊地求功名思想的唐朝,造成分離的原因則是戰爭及求功名。此外,情成須藉由文字語言的交織建構才能呈現,征婦問怨詩多藉由時空的交感、夢境的使用、情景的勾勒等方法將種種幽微細品致的怨情勾勒而出。
Boudoir poetries were written by using women's turns of expressions or onlookers' views. These poetries describe women's aspirations and frustrations of love by using the appearances of the affections of lovers. These affections include some sorrowful emotions such as loneliness, melancholy, worry, sadness, regret, disconsolateness, resentment, angry and soon. Poetries are written according to these affections. These affections are so exquisite and complex. Generally speaking, these affections can be cataloged into two parts. Some are strong and straight such as regret disconsolateness, resentment and angry. The others are not such as loneliness, melancholy, worry, sadness. Else, parting sorrows trigger these affections. Lovers leave apart for a long time due to warfare and fame seeking. It is because that wars spreading in the border and people are willing to join these campaigns for high official positions and riches in Tang density. Moreover, these exquisite and complex affections are depicted by interlacing time, space, dreams and circumstances.