JIANGHAN ACADEMIC ›› 2016, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 69-77.doi: 10.16388/j.cnki.cn42-1843/c.2016.04.009

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Du Ye’s Penghu Dream——Based on the Collection of Poems Penghu Dreams Have Spread Their Wings

ZHENG Zhenwei   

  1. School of Education,University of Macao,Macao JE33
  • Received:2016-06-08 Revised:2016-06-08 Online:2016-08-15 Published:2016-07-11

Abstract: Du Ye,a prolific poet born in Jiayi but regarding Penghu as his native place,has a special and unintelligible perception about Penghu. Penghu Dreams Have Spread Their Wings published in 2009 is a collection of his poems depicting Penghu. From his views about life and expectations towards himself revealed in his other writings,one can see that the poet feels extremely lonely and disesteemed;borrowing Bachelard’s material imagination of water,one finds that he imagined his posthumous life as a course of a journey. Loneliness seems to be connected to dreams and for the dreams the poet lives in the happiness of the world with Penghu as his spiritual paradise. His writings,however,also reflect his imagination of life as a labyrinth.In this depiction of a place,the writer’s intense perception of Penghu,a humanistic space,ostensibly comes from his deep affection for his grandfather,but interpreted by poetics of dreams,the poet,from the Penghu dreams,finds the freedom of a childhood dreamer and the childhood is awakened by sweet smells. Penghu in the dreams is forever young and gives the writer a sense of happiness;the poet finds the indwelling,feminine,immense comfort from the depth of fantasy.

Key words: Du Ye’s poetry, Penghu Dreams Have Spread Their Wings, childhood;dreams, labyrinth

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