论刘禹锡与牛僧孺的唱和诗

On the Mutual Echoing Poems by Liu Yuxi and Niu Sengru

刘禹锡晚居洛阳时期的唱和对象中包括牛僧孺,这是两个有着难以化解的宿怨的"诗友"。他们既把唱和当作修补持续恶化的人际关系的一种必要手段,也把唱和视为暗中角力的一种方式。这样,他们的唱和诗就难免飘逸出不和谐的音符而别具韵味了。他们这种行为本身也就构成了一种与政治代码及性格基因相联系的独特的文化现象。

During his late years of life in Luoyang,Liu Yuxi wrote many echoing poems in response to other poets,including Niu sengru. The two were the 'poetic friends'who had unsolvable resentments against each other. They not only used the echoing poems as an essential means of remedy for their deteriorating personal relationship,but they also availed themselves of this sort of poems as a way of implicit ideological wrestling. Thus,their mutual echoing poems would inevitably release some inharmonious notes that were of particular artistic tastes. What they did in such communication itself constituted a unique cultural phenomenon which was closely related to their political codes and dispositional genes.