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This study intends to explore the writing phenomenon of three kinds of Compound-Poetry in Tang dynasty. By inspecting the perspectives from the lyricality and pragmaticality, this study investigates the influence and meanings of these Tang poetry. The “Compound-Poetry” refers to the poems combing the “poetry” and the “prose with accurate function”. This kind of poems reflected the awareness of “mixture between genres”, especially the “mixture between poetry and prose”. We investigate why would the poet choose to write the works by combing the poetry instead of choosing the proper prose with accurate function. The writing phenomenon of such Compound-Poetry includes the forming factors behind the creation, in which the meaning is worthy to find out. The thesis includes five chapters. The introduction includes the research motivation, literature review, research methods and the overview of chapters. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chapters discuss the writing phenomenon of three kinds of Compound-Poetry─Sanzhuan Shi (poems of a biography), Daishu Shi (poems of a letter) and Aiji Shi (poems of condolence), respectively. Each of these chapters starts with the definitions of related genres, and then discusses the relationship between the characters in the poems, as well as the features and forms of the poems. Then, we investigate the lyricality and pragmaticality shown in these poems. We inspect the Compound-Poetry comprehensively from the five aforementioned approaches, as the analysis starts in focusing on the “formal and linguistic perspectives of the mixture phenomenon”, it ends up with the “essence perspective of the mixture phenomenon” in these three chapters. The conclusion chapter aims to clarify the Compound-Poetry on the scale of lyricality and pragmaticality. From the perspective of the poet (the author), the Compound-Poetry is a new choice that can better express emotions while it also inherited the function from the prose. From the perspective of “the humanity relationship”, the Compound-Poetry is more applicable for describing close relationship. The lyricality from the poetry also makes the prose with accurate function in establishing the humanity relationship. The Compound-Poetry shows the diversity of “mixture between genres”, and it demonstrates its importance in the genre developmental history. |