Abstract:

LI Shang-yin's untitled poems kept in his poetic collection mainly include two categories: eight eight-line poems with seven characters to each line and three four-line poems with weven characters to a line, respectively attached to his two romances probably labeled as Record of the Blue Bridge and Record of the Green Bird.The implications and sentiments of those untitled poems are quite in harmony with these stories in his romance writing.In addition, there are five short poems with five characters to each line and one eight-line poem with seven characters to a line, which are in accordance with the story of Han Yi.Examining relations of LI Shang-yin's poems without title to his lost romances is importantly cocerned with how to view literature during the Tang Dynasty on the whole.

Key words: poem without title, Tang romances, lost text of romance, LI Shang-yin