Analysis On Yip Wai-lim's Pure Poetry Theory

Originally, the pure poetry is an important concept in the Western poetics. Yip Wai-lim, as a scholar with rich life experiences and well understanding of the Chinese and the West cultures, treats the pure poetry as the bridge communicating the poetics between the two cultures. Based on previous research, the pure poetry theory of Yip Wai-lim was in depth analyzed from the following three aspects in this thesis:First, on the concept of the pure poetry theory. Generally speaking, there are two main points in his theory:on the one hand, as to viewing of looking and feeling things, it needs to remove the disturbance of intellectuality as much as possible; on the other hand, for the writing strategy, it needs to reject the narrative language and the deductive, analytical and declarative voice. But these two aspects are based on presentation of the right "the nature".Second, on the origin of the pure poetry theory. The origin of Yip Wai-lim's pure poetry theory is very rich:from one thing, it is influenced by Chinese traditional Taoism esthetics and Yan Yu's "theory of wonderful insight"; for the other thing, it saturates in the Western culture, and is inspired by the phenomenology and of Eliot's "the compression method". He is a scholar, and as well as a poem. Besides exploring pure theory, he also successfully attempted it in his own poetry creation.Third, on the value assessment about the pure poetry theory. Exploration and discussion about the Chinese classical poetry images and language by Yip Wai-lim are a therapy to rectify the bad phenomena which blindly follow the West and neglect own nation traditional culture in present the poetry creation practice. He favors Wang Wei's poems, and his theory also permeates the traditional Taoism esthetics. Regarding this, some scholars raised the questions, and pointed out his theory biased. But he endeavored to well unfold the esthetics state of the Chinese classical poetry of "harmony of man with nature", and consistently pursued to regain the spirit of the traditional poetry. He deserves our deep respect.