说闻一多“诗唐”说

On Wen Yiduo's View of the Poeticized Tang Dynasty

闻一多"诗唐"说的含义要从唐诗的创作、流布和欣赏以及诗人的社会地位等诸多环节去诠释。唐人创作诗歌,处于一种完全自觉、"不写诗,无以言"的状态。而唐诗的流布和欣赏则是社会化了的,在此基础上,诗人为全社会所拥戴。"诗唐"说有巨大的理论启示意义,其一就是促使我们重新评估晚唐诗。以"诗唐"的观点,初唐是诗歌由齐梁到唐的过渡期,盛唐是诗歌的全盛期,中唐是诗歌的中兴期,而晚唐则是"诗唐",即唐诗社会化的完成期。

Wen Yiduo's view of the 'poeticized Tang Dynasty' should be interpreted by taking into account many factors, such as writing, spread and appreciation of poems and the poet's social status. It was absolutely out of self-consciousness that scholars in the Tang Dynasty wrote poems owing to their established maxim 'having no way of expression but writing poems'. And the spread and appreciation of poems was totally socialized, and poets were widely respected by the society. The view of the 'poeticized Tang Dynasty' is of great theoretical implication, which facilitates us to reevaluate the poetry of the late Tang Dynasty. From this view, the poetry of the early Tang Dynasty marked the transition from the Qi and the Liang to the Tang Dynasty, the poetry of the prosperous Tang Dynasty indicated the pinnacle, the poetry of the mid-Tang Dynasty stood for a phase of revival, and the poetry of the late Tang Dynasty represented the very phase of the 'poeticized Tang Dynasty', that is, the period of time when the socialization of poetry was completed.