The Research On Allan Poe’s Aesthetic Thought

Allan Poe chose “sacred beauty” as the core of his aesthetic thought.The beauty isdetached from the other side of the reality, to combat the evil in the reality. But the desire andthe pursuit of beauty is from human instinct and the soul of man. The highest goal of theliterature is to inspire people to divine desire and the pursuit of beauty. So the artistic effect isin the core position of Poe’s creation. In his specific creation practice, he follows the basicprinciple and the aesthetic concept. Depression and weird are two main aesthetic styles. Theformer mainly displays in poetry, the latter performance in the novels, essays. But Poe’sworks are not only the two aesthetic styles, but many aesthetic styles coexistence. Poe’s workis divided into five themes, and according to subject matter respectively to illustrate the mainaesthetic style. But these five genre, respectively, show the beauty of melancholy, ideal ofbeauty, beauty of horror and weird fantasy beauty. So Poe’s works of different themes, bringreaders aesthetic feeling is also different. Compared with the works of Eliot, Edgar Allan Poepursued the perceptual components accounted for more. By contrast with aestheticism writernamed Wilde, we can see that the beauty of art is beyond the real beauty, but the beauty of artis generated based on the real beauty. Although Poe thought the same truth in life has littlerelationship with the beauty of art, but it close to the true of art. Beauty Which Allan Poepursued is different with the traditional noble beauty has certain moral height in their works,but he also does not preclude moral ingredients in his works. Compared to Wilde’s creation,the form of literature is on a less important position in Poe’s creation. It is to go for theultimate artistic effect, to show its transcendent spiritual beauty services. By comparing AllanPoe with two other writers, we can see the unique of Allan Poe’s aesthetics more clearly.Therefore, Allan Poe on later writers had produced huge influence. Especially in his laterdetective, mystery novels, detective novels slope was created when the aesthetic keynote untiltoday still has not changed much, Poe’s aesthetic thoughts have produced main effecting toWestern and China detective novels. Chinese horror writer reference and imitation Allan Poecreated fear in the novel aesthetic style, many Chinese mystery writers will also Allan Poe works beauty and death by combining the use of image to their works.Allan Poe’s works had a lot of influence to the beauty of melancholy and the grotesquebeauty of western novels especially the modernist novels.Almost all western modernistnovels are similar to the blue or grotesque aesthetics style. Instead of Allan Poe focus andshow people the beauty of the soul, so that the slope is described and show the inner world ofdepth exceeded greatly before the writer. He also created a psychological horror fiction. Asthe time passed, western novels also have started to pay attention to the inner world of man.Western modernist novels often occur in large space of characters’ inner activities of the show.Allan Poe’s creation takes effect, the artistic effect on the creation of the core position. Theartistic effect of the method with the previous work is very different. He tries to show is aspecific environment or atmosphere, arouse the readers a feeling or emotion. Unlike thetraditional novels so carefully set up a complex storyline and the shaping of personality, theimage of the character image. This approach has also been the novel after the reference andimitation. Allan Poe’s pursuit of beauty is different to the traditional sense of the beautifuland sublime beauty. The pursuit of aesthetics and aesthetic ideas are just adapted to thedevelopment trend of modern aesthetics. Through the study of Poe’s aesthetic thought, notonly can make us understand the Poe’s work is widely and lasting spread the deep-seatedreason. It is also can help us to understand the variation and change between traditionalaesthetics and modern aesthetics from one side.