本研究以旅遊文學的理論來探究李魁賢的旅遊詩。首先，筆者認為，「台灣」是李魁賢的「家的座標」，在離與返間建構「理想自我」，且此建構中的理想自我不僅為李魁賢自身，更是「台灣」本身；而在旅遊詩中，時常可見自我與異國景觀的對鏡疊影，李魁賢特別鍾情於「火」、「山」意象，「火」的能動性及「山」的穩固、堅定可說是李魁賢所認知的理想自我形象；再者，旅人在面對異國風景時常產生的「共鳴感」，在李魁賢旅遊詩中則是藉由在異國景觀中發現的熟悉感，以之表現與台灣故鄉在情感上的聯繫；最後，旅行過程將因「人我差異」而反映出旅人自我心中的匱缺或滿足，匱缺部分如李魁賢以對蘇聯解體後各民族國家相繼獨立的羨慕之情，來表現對台灣獨立的期許，反之，則在「中國觀察」系列中，表現中國未能保障人權、未能尊重個體自由的政治現況，在其他第三世界國家中也多表現其人道主義的關懷同情。

The aim of this study is to explore the travel poems by Lee Kuei-shien through the theory of travel literature. First, the researcher of this study believes that “Taiwan” signifies the “coordinates of home” to Lee, as he constructs “an ideal self” between leaving and returning. This ideal self is not only Lee himself but also Taiwan. In the travel literature, a mirror image is often found reflecting the self and the foreign landscape. Lee prefers using the images of “fire” and “mountain.” The dynamism of fire and the steadfastness of mountains are the ideal images for the self as conceived by Lee. Moreover, the sympathetic responses generated in a traveler when facing a foreign landscape is replaced by the familiarity found in a foreign landscape in Lee’s travel
poems, thereby presenting an emotional connection to Taiwan, his home. Finally, a traveler’s inner dissatisfaction or satisfaction is usually reflected by “the difference between the self and the others” discovered when traveling. For the dissatisfaction, Lee presents his expectation of the independence of Taiwan through his admiration of the independence of other nation states after the former U.S.S.R collapsed. For the satisfaction, in the series of “Observing China” Li presents the political situation in China that lacks the protection of human right and the respect of individual freedom. He also presents his sympathy towards humanitarianism in many third-world-countries.