On The Artistic Spirit Of Mudan's Poetry And The Historical Construction Of Chinese New Poem

This dissertation has three chapters. Mudan's social identity is discussed in general in Chapter 1. In the 1940s, Mudan, who was a clerk on low pay, more than a cultural figure, was located at the edge of cultural networks. This situation made a conscious writing standpoint of Mudan. His art of writing which is a holistic concept was discussed in detail in the following part. It includes not only themes and lyricism, but also translation, other literary types and modifications. The analysis on Mudan's poetry shows that he paid much attention to personal experience, and thought more about Individual and the Times. He advocated that one person should be devoted into the times with a positive attitude. At the same time, he always kept a proper distance from the times to maintain the personal independence, which enabled him to have a unique lyricism in his poetry. His writing of several other literary types, especially translation, is also intrinsically linked to poetry writing. Because the goal is to rejuvenate the Chinese art, Mudan shows a conscious recognition and a positive identification with the process of Chinese new poem. In short, the different types of writing have mutual revelation of each other's existence.On this basis, my dissertation advances a new concept,the Artistic Spirit of Mudan's Poetry. The concept not only affirms the individualism of Mudan's writing, embodies the spirit of the times and shows his artistry, but also emphasizes his self-awareness, and the unique continuous artistic quality of his writing. Besides referring to Mudan, the concept refers to the entire Chinese literature of the 20^th century.Chapter 2 is a research on the relationship between Mudan and the historical construction of Chinese new poem. Starting with details, on the topic of poetry resources in the West and Chinese new poem, my article analyses the college education of Mudan and the school of poets from the National South West Associated University. Their writing had an important impact from classical poetry. As for the classical poetry resources and new poem, I think, because of a special historical sense, Mudan and the other poets' evade tradition, which is a deliberate behaviour. Tradition influences upon their writing, but the relationship between them and the tradition is more like a moral inheritance. In the field of Chinese modern literary tradition, through the comparative analysis of Luxun and Mudan, my thesis highlights some secret, subtle and personal factors. My article emphasizes that only with these prominent factors, the tradition of Chinese modern literature is a rich tradition of spiritual vitality. As for the language of new poem, my article analyzes its characteristics of being like prose poems and colloquialism, and indicates the unique experience in dealing with language of Fengzhi, Mudan, Changyao etc. The theme about land by Aiqing and Mudan as a core will be discussed. Through the discussion about five themes, a few important topics in the history of Chinese new poem have been discriminated while the artistic spirit of Mudan has been further strengthened.Chapter 3 is an inspection of Mudan poetry's communication in 1940s. The purpose to set up this chapter is to emphasize Mudan's effects in the source of history. The issue involves topics such as: the creation of the criticism space about Mudan in the 1940s; Mudan's image in the 1950sm, and the change of Mudan's image since the 1980s. Extensive newspaper articles, journals, related publications, literary history, literary anthology, school history, chronology, reminiscences and other materials are used in this chapter. All kinds of dominant and recessive elements of the times are inspected. It shows a very clear and constantly changing image of Mudan. In fact, this analysis shows up not only the change of the historical image of Mudan, but also the change of the concept and principles of literary history. Therefore, this is another path to inspect artistic spirit of Mudan's poetry and historical construction of Chinese new poem.