The theme of unrequited love in the fourteen P'u-sa man lyrics（tz'u）by Wen Fei-ch'ing had been interpreted by the Ch'ing scholar Chang Hui-yen as an allegory of the frustration of the poet's personal ambition ─ an interpretation long ridiculed and attacked by later scholars . This paper , however , is in support of Chang's reading . Furthermore , this paper attempts to demonstrate that Chang's interpretation has shed new light on the stanzaic continuities , the sectional cohesiveness , and the dictional resonances of Wen's tz'u .