In the Liu Yu-his’s poems, there are two kinds of huai-ku poems. First, a meditation occasioned by a visit to an ancient site, the poet express his speculation on what the site had been in the past, but the center of the poem was inevitable the poet’s present: what he saw, what he felt, and what he imagined. In other words, rather than relate the facts of the past, the huai-ku poetry reestablishes a metahistorical relationship between the past and the present from the vision of the poet. The another kind of huai-ku poems concerning about those sites where he had never been visit to an ancient site, he described or reminded the historical events as if he have ever seen, . The center between lines was the poet’s subjective feeling, then he collected his imagination from the natural landscape. To put it more precisely, the second kind of huai-ku poems have more glamour than the first kind, In the most lyric tradition of Chinese iterature, the auther’s subjective participation, even if it possessed a more important part than the objective historical events. In this article, I discuss the different artistic presentation of the Liu Yu-his’s(禹錫)two kinds of huai-ku(懷古)poems.
In the Liu Yu-his’s poems, there are two kinds of huai-ku poems. First, a meditation occasioned by a visit to an ancient site, the poet express his speculation on what the site had been in the past, but the center of the poem was inevitable the poet’s present: what he saw, what he felt, and what he imagined. In other words, rather than relate the facts of the past, the huai-ku poetry reestablishes a metahistorical relationship between the past and the present from the vision of the poet. The another kind of huai-ku poems concerning about those sites where he had never been visit to an ancient site, he described or reminded the historical events as if he have ever seen, . The center between lines was the poet’s subjective feeling, then he collected his imagination from the natural landscape. To put it more precisely, the second kind of huai-ku poems have more glamour than the first kind, In the most lyric tradition of Chinese iterature, the auther’s subjective participation, even if it possessed a more important part than the objective historical events. In this article, I discuss the different artistic presentation of the Liu Yu-his’s(禹錫)two kinds of huai-ku(懷古)poems.