從《夢土上》到《寂寞的人坐著看花》，隨著生命歷程的推進，鄭愁予的詩歌也發展出不同的面貌。產生變化的關鍵之一，是詩人一九六八年赴美後，經過長時間的沉潛，相隔十二年才有新作問世，其創作生涯也因此區分兩個階段。如要對鄭愁予的詩歌進行全面的研究，並釐清不同階段作品的差異務必得掌握前後期作品的特色，才能加以比較分析。有鑑於此，本文擬先對鄭愁予旅美前的詩作進行研究，首先探討當中的核心主題，並對意象的組成模式進行分析，再藉此掌握其詩歌語言的特色，綜論整體藝術風格的表現。期望經由本文的分析，能有助於彰顯鄭愁予前期作品的藝術特色，繼而作為全面研究鄭愁予詩歌的基礎。

Cheng ch'ou-yu is one of the most well known Taiwan poets around today. The critics praised his poems pretty highly. Since 1951 he started to publish his creations in newspapers and periodicals. Before he left Taiwan to America in 1968, he had written three volumes of poetry for 15 years (1951-65). Then, he did not publish new poems until 1980. When his book was in print again, his poems were written in a different style. This report is a study about Cheng ch'ou-yu's poems, which only fbcus on the early phase before he went to America. The first part will describe the themes of Cheng ch'ou-yu's poems; then, analyze the images, grammars, and rhymes...etc. The final section is to generalize the style from the instance of his poems and discover the value of Cheng ch'ou-yu's early poems.

鄭愁予;主題;意象;語言;風格

Cheng ch'ou-yu;Theme;Image;Grammar;Style;