Imperceptible Influence of the Christian Spirit on Du Fu in His Poems on Geese

Du Fu is a great poet of China and of the world.He wrote a great number of realistic poems that reflected major events of the history and poems of leisure all his life,five of which are on geese.The best poems on geese by Du Fu are that the poet took himself as a target,which inspires us to seek the essence of his poems on geese,the reasons why the poems were written,and the relationship bwtween the poems and the truth.Martin Heidegger’s discussion on the relationship between the poems and the truth has provided us with a frame of reference for a better understanding of Du Fu’s poems on geese.It is a better way than ever to grasp the essence of Du Fu’s poems on people’s livelihood from a careful study of his poems on geese,as the two kinds of poems are the same in nature and show equal concern for the true state of life.The reason why Du Fu’s poetry reaches the top level of the world lies nowhere but in his times and living context.Christianity,as a state religion of Tang Dynasty,had an imperceptible influence to Du Fu that he absorbed the Christian spirit without change the system of his own discourse.That Du Fu had been under a great pressure of how to live on made him highly sensitive and allowed him,motivated by the Christian spirit,to concern for the existential state of his own,of the creatures around him,and of many other living individuals in the universe.This is the basic quality of Du Fu’s poetry,which endows Du Fu’s poetry with an eternal value cognitive and aesthetical.The cognitive value of Du Fu’s poetry enables people to see it is worth reading,and,people would never get tired of reading Du Fu’s poetry for its aesthetical value.