论俞彦的词学思想

On Yu Yan's Poetic Thoughts

俞彦的词学思想主要体现在其《爰园词话》中。俞彦认为诗、词、曲有共同的本源,词体是音乐文学发展链条上的一个环节,与诗歌一样,为"不朽之业"之一种,由于词乐散佚,词不能歌、不"便俗"而走向衰微;他指出北南宋词作为宋词的不同发展阶段,词风不同,各有其价值;并就词体创作中的立意命句、小令与长调的写法以及词中对句的使用进行理论阐述。俞彦的词学思想预示着明代后期词坛风气的转变。

The poetic theory of Yu Yan, a Ci-poetry theorist from the Ming Dynasty, is mainly presented in his Commentaries on Ci-Poetryfrom Yuan Garden, in which he claimed that shi-poetry, ei-poetry and qu-poetry had the same origin with ci-poetry as an indispensible developmental phase in literature along the musical aspect. He maintained that ci-poetry declined due to the loss of music for which ci-poetry functioned as the lyrics. He also demonstrated the different tastes of the Northern Song and the Southern Song Dynasties and examined the thematic approaches, styles and compositions in different forms of ci- and qu-poetry. It could be argued that Yu Yan＇s poetic thoughts signaled the transformation of poetic studies in late Ming Dynasty.