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Yu Guangzhong’s Poetic Imagination from Fruit

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2008, (16), pp.191-204
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2008..16.010
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : May 31, 2008

鄭振偉 1

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Candidate

ABSTRACT

This article is a study of ten “fruit poems” collected in Pomegranate, written by Yu Guangzhong. The sense of taste is not an inferior bodily experience or merely a sensation of pleasure;it often involves personal feelings. This article begins with a discussion of food and the sense of taste, in which Gaston Bachelard’s concept of material imagination and Erich Neumann’s notion of depth psychology are employed for reading these fruit poems. For analysis, these ten poems with an expression of praise for fruit are regarded as a unity. Beneath Yu’s poetic imagination from fruits borne by the earth, while uniting in the richness of fruit the sense of taste, memory, childhood, inner feeling, happiness, fecundity, femininity, the universe and regression, the poet reveals his passion for the soil of Taiwan and identifies himself with this soil.

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