简析古典白话小说中的文字游戏诗

文字游戏诗是以汉字为基础,游戏笔墨的诗歌体式,在古典白话小说中体现为数字诗、藏头诗、字谜诗、回文诗、双关语诗、顶针诗等多种艺术形式。这些诗以多种方式与小说具体的内容相结合,通过恰当的艺术处理能起到辅助情节、渲染背景、描写环境、刻画人物等方面的文学功用。

On the Word-play Verses in the Chinese Classical Vernacular Stories

In the Chinese classical vernacular novels the word-play verse,based on the Chinese characters,present themselves in such artistic forms as numeric verse,head-hidden verse,word-riddle verse,palindromic verse,pun verse,thimble verse,etc.The verses are combined with the specifics of the novels in many ways.Through appropriate artistic treatments the verses can be adopted to help plots,render backgrounds,describe environments,portray characters,and so on.