Symbolism And Modern Chinese Poetry

Symbolism, as a literary school, once swept over Europe and America and exerted a great influence on modern Chinese poetry. The affinity in artistic conception between the Western symbolism and Chinese poetry opens up and enriches the artistic horizon and artistic forms of expression of Chinese poetry. The introduction, influence and transmutation of symbolism in China is by no means accidental but the outcome of the literary collision and integration between the West and the East.This dissertation consists of five chapters: the chapter of preface, the chapter of symbolism and its poetics proposition, the chapter of symbolism in China, the chapter of symbolism and modern Chinese poets' cultivating, the chapter of modern Chinese poets case study in symbolism's influence, and the part of epilogue.The preface chapter has one major section, which introduces this paper's topic, significance, contents, methods, and innovative points.The chapter of symbolism and its poetics proposition studies the definition of symbolism, the symbolism literary movement, the symbolism's poetics system and its influence on modern Chinese poetry idea, the evolution clue of symbolism poetry, and the literary criticism circles' statement about symbolism.The chapter of symbolism in China studies the spread clue of symbolism in China for several decades. Studying the clue, we should grasp two basic characters. From society culture trend, symbolism comes to china with decadence and mysticism; from poetics point of view, the influence on modern Chinese poets is symbolism's taste and thinking mode. It's the first character. The second character is the symbolism's spread mode in China which is the combination of the same period of time and last a period of time. In the first phrase (1920-1927), almost all kinds of western symbolism trends and authors swarmed into China at the same time. In the second (1928-1937) and third phrase (1938-1949), the symbolism's spread mode in china represent the state of the same period of time and last a period of time's combination.The chapter of symbolism and modern Chinese poets' cultivating studies the symbolism's influence on modern Chinese poetry firstly the echoing of the literature theme and the resonance of the inner emotion. It shows the inner feelings and thinking of the disappointment to the society and human life. In such psychological feeling and thinking, rational criticism to reality and deep self-question is felt. Secondly it appears in the pursuit of pure poesy aiming at values, representing the noumenal meaning of the form of poesy by the beauty of symbolism, music, and languages. In the progress of accepting, Chinese poets have their own creativity. Studying the creativity is the most important task of the dissertation. The exploring symbolism deep connotation of modern Chinese poets reflected modern Chinese poetry treading to implicative and abstruse by pay attention to image, dreamland and idol.The chapter of modern Chinese poets case study in symbolism's influence selected several poets to discuss some important sides they represented in seeking symbolism poetry art progress. Li Jin-fa is the pioneer of Chinese Symbolism, his poems have two defects, one is too obscurity, the other is losing traditional character. Dai Wang-shu is deeply-rooted in Chinese traditional culture and national psychology deposition , he consciously sought to blend Chinese and Western culture in poetic creation and formed his unique style of symbolism in his poems in the process of his choice of symbolism . His defects is short of modernity deploitation. Bian Zhi-lin is a wit poet. Seeking to "theatrically place" made his poetry art present a kind of "thinking sentience" character. Fen Zhi devoted his mind to meditate in substances in the 40^th age which marked his "sonnet" representing a contemplative times. Comparatively, Mu Dan may be the most complicated poet. His poems represent a sort of transcendental symbol creation. Moreover, he pushes his sensibility experience and metaphysical thinking into symbol imagoes strongly. At the same time, his creation reflects the desire that modern Chinese poetry should transcend history and life.The part of epilogue summarizes the dissertation, and attempt to educe more valuable studying problems. For example, the decadence of the end of century emotion; Baudelaire's "Satanism" and ugly taste aesthetics view; the exploring human uniform of divinity and monster deriving from "Satanism"; the symbolism master's austere san and rational criticism for modern civilization; the religion and mythos in the composing of Baudelaire, Valery, Yeats, Rilke, Eliot and Auden; the religion and mythos in modern China literature; the modern Chinese composer's transcendent consciousness and their exploring for existence noumenon. All of them are fascinating problems. And those deal with many important contemporary literature fields. From the meaning of that, the dissertation of symbolism and modern China poetry is just a beginning of studying China contemporary literature.