This study is about the Relationship between Poetry and Music in the modern Chinese poetry. Using a comparative literary study method, this research is based on the interrelationship between literature and other art, music. Many of the modern Chinese ...
This study is about the Relationship between Poetry and Music in the modern Chinese poetry. Using a comparative literary study method, this research is based on the interrelationship between literature and other art, music. Many of the modern Chinese poems are sung as music. After the new culture movement during 1910s and 1920s, for instance, the representative works of colloquial Chinese poets such as Hushi(胡適), Liubannong(劉半農), Liudabai(劉大白), Xuzhimo(徐志摩), Daiwangshu(戴望舒) were written music by composers, Xiaoyoumei(蕭友梅), Zhaoyuanren(趙元任) and others. In 1930s, the various marches, military songs, anti-Japan revolutionary songs and ect. were created by the left revolutionary poets and musicians, and Maozedong(毛澤東)`s works were sung as hymns. In this paper, I found the examples that poetry was sung as a music and analyzed the characteristics. In the process that the modern Chinese poetry was changed into music, I searched to distinguish the types of poems dealing with love for men and women, criticism for reality, revolution, anti-Japan and etc. Through this analysis, I identify that poetry are related with music closely and the musical component is the essence of it.