Yoshimi Takeuchi - Yu Dafu

Yu Dafu

In his graduation thesis, Takeuchi discussed Yu Dafu. He concluded:

Yu Dafu--he was an agonal poet. He pursued self-agony with a sincere manner and brought abnormal influence in the Chinese literary world by coming to light in bold expression. Because his agony sums up his young contemporaries' agony.

"Not (accommodating oneself to external authority) but (digging down self-agony). Yu Dafu did not reign over the people but was connected with others' agony. Takeuchi described his style as 'art of the strength that devoting oneself solely to weakness'."