Abstract: Du Fu’s travel poems reveal more spatial displacements and time sequences, thus acquiring a more “narrative” style. Among the travel poems, despite the fact that Du’s autobiographical poems still had the characteristics of ancient Yuefu narrative featured with essential means of summary and vague plots, narrative elements had been greatly strengthened, as was seen in consistent actors (roles), plot development and flow of time in these poems. Those poems reflecting wartime chaos had the least emotional expressions, while adding to objective “narrative” elements, thus to some extent reproducing real life scenarios instead of direct emotional expressions. The so called “historyrecording poems” were simply results of seemingly objective and neutral expressions brought about by Du Fu’s successful adoption of narrative strategies in his poems. Narrative brought a brandnew aesthetic experience to Du’s poems. It not only provided an internal necessity for plain Tang poetry language and explored new ways of poetic expressions, especially through the creative usage of “external focus perspective” in such poems as Officials in Xin’an County, Officials in Shihao Village, Separation after New Marriageand Old Age Departure, but also laid a foundation for the prosperity of narrative poetry in the MidTang Dynasty. Key words：

Key words: narrative perspective, poetry, narrative, historyrecording poems, Du Fu