Gambaran Perempuan dalam Puisi-Puisi Li Bai, Wang Changling dan Du Fu

This final assignment discusses the representation of the women that consisted in the poems of Li Bai, Wang Changling and Du Fu. The author took four poems from the Tang dynasty that consists a lot of representation about women. The representation aims to give readers the meaning about the poet’s feelings. Not only the representation of women, the author also discusses the meaning of women in the four poems that associated with the meaning of women in the Tang dynasty. The purpose of this study is to explain the representation and explain the meaning of women that contained in the poems of Li Bai, Wang Changling and Du Fu. The analysis process included translation as a corpus of research, followed by an analysis the representation and the meaning that appeared in poetry. The meaning of women in Chinese poetry can express various things. Related to the representation of women in Chinese poetry which were rich of symbols, this study attempt to express the representation and meanings of women in the four poems of the Tang poets.
Keywords: the representation of women, Li Bai, Wang Changling, Du Fu, Tang dynasty