| Abstract |
“A Peacock Flies towards the Southeast” is the longest narrative poem in Chinese classical literature, composed by an unknown writer at the end of the Tong-Han Dynasty. In content, the poem possesses high value because it reflects the deep people’s wish to pursue happiness in the disordered time; in art of form, it involves intricate plot, vivid characters, realistic description, and especially strict structure which explained as so-called “systemic and completed”. Thus, we attempt to study the complicated structure in the poem and find that: the first level structure (narrate-comment) displays the obvious theme of accusing feudal etiquette, and the second one (abstract-concrete) reveals the hidden theme as eulogizing inflexible love. At last, we annotate the aesthetic of the main structures in the poem in order to show the diverse aesthetic of the structure in the poem. |
