Abstract:
GUO Fen was a poetess in Qing Dynasty. And her poems described her harem’s life and expressed the sadness for departure. The sensitive artistic feelings showed the striking feminine features of her poems. Her imitations of males’ poems, her care for national welfare and the people’s livelihood, and the irony of the ways of world, all surpassed the bridle of the harem. Her creation of poems reflected the existent situation of all other poetess in Qing Dynasty: personal achievement characterized with striking family culture, creation in pursuit of expansion of horizon and breakthrough of styles, deep influence by male poets and poetic norms.