THE AWAKENING AND TRANSFORMATION OF SENSATION IN PU SONGLING’S ILLNESS POETRY

Abstract

This article takes Pu Songling’s illness poetry as research subject to dig out his illness feeling about the five perceptions of the eyes, ears, tongue, and body. From deeply reviewing his four sensations in his poems, we have found the transformation of his life from sadness to glee. Due to the disease of his legs around his forty, he had spent much time lying down on the bed but he had strong feelings of the seasonal changes through his vision, hearing and touch to create a cold and lonely world around himself. After his sixty years old, the illness of his teeth had brought more severe transformation of the feeling of taste and touch. Finally, Pu Songling had accepted all of these sensations and lived with the painful feelings. The plentiful experience of feeling of illness and the fading desire for imperial examination had made huge transformation of Pu Songling’s sensations. The author would review these sensations item by item and through the real characteristic of describing the illness feelings in his poems to analyze deeply the emotional connotation of Pu Songling.