Climbing the Yueyang Tower

…The fourth period is the period up until his death when he left Sichuan. He again sings of melancholy during his wandering life, but his poems go beyond admiration for individual events to express a state of mind where he goes further and seeks to discover the sadness inherent in life itself. Many of his works, such as “Eight Poems for Autumnal Equinox,” “The Lonely Wild Goose,” and “Climbing Yueyang Tower,” are filled with a sense of intense pathos. Du Fu absorbed the results of his work since the “Book of Songs” and “Chu Ci,” and created new works in both the ancient and modern styles. …

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…第4期は四川を離れて死に至るまでの時期で，漂泊の生活の中で再び憂愁が歌われるが，個々の事象に対する詠嘆から，さらに進んで生きること自体がもつ憂いを探り当てようとする境地が表現される。〈秋興八首〉〈孤雁〉〈岳陽楼に登る〉など壮絶な悲哀感にあふれた作品が多い。杜甫は《詩経》《楚辞》以来の成果を吸収したうえで，古体･近体のいずれの形式においても新たな創造を成し遂げた。…

※「《岳陽楼に登る》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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