2003•Journal of Zhejiang Shuren UniversityRequires access
A Preliminary Study of ZHU Shuzhen's Love Mindset in Her Poems
Huang Ya-qing
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Abstract
ZHU Shuzhen, a great female poet, lived in Song dynasty later than LI Qingzhao. Her poems about love are fresh and gracious. As she was not satisfied with her marriage, there is much grudge and enmity in her poems and ci (a Chinese poetic gentre), which reflect her true feeling. ZHU Shuzhen, expresses in her poem and ci her illusions and expectations about love as well as depression and resentment about her unfortunate marriage. The female poet had a gnawing regret to the end of her days a lonely and despairing condition. We can truly sense her emotion process of her whole life from her poems and ci.