Abstract
Chinese Gui-yuan poetry usually employs either a female or a pseudo-female persona to express grievance about war, departure from friends, political failure, personal loneliness etc. Carolyn Kizer (1925) is noted for her accepted influence of ancient Chinese poetics. This article argues that Carolyn Kizer’s poetic creation largely lies upon her acceptance of Chinese Gui-yuan poetics by applying with Chinese-flavoured allusions and images. By doing so, Carolyn Kizer achieves the grief poetic tone to express the melancholy of the gendered self for women, which evidences the traces of Chinese Gui-yuan elements in her poems.
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