Study On Mudan' Poetry Language

This dissertation expounds the modernity in the language of Mu Dan's poetry from two aspects-language form and the way of language thinking.Chapter One explores the language characteristic of Mu Dan's poetry from three aspects:the renewal of lexical system, the poetic licence of the word combination, and the unique sentence structures. Lexis is the essential component in morphology. Mu Dan employed large amount of non-traditional words in his poem; used many words relevant to the human body so that the body gets the soul to think about life; endowed the words with distinct meaning so that they bear the uniqueness; intensively made use of the form words to change the poetry's language function so that it can display a fine and explicit description, express the subtlest feeling, fix word order and grammatical function, and thus form a clear and pithy poetry style. Mu Dan, meanwhile, employed quantities of function words indicating time, orientation and location which not only enable the modern poetry to realize timing, orientating, and locating but also strengthen the dimensionality and wholeness. The features of the word combination in Mu Dan's poetry are presented in the paired use of some contradictory words, the transformation of words' grammatical function, and the embedding of abstract and representational terms. The unique sentence structure in Mu Dan's poetry is realized by the only way for Chinese new poetry to modernization-Europeanization, which means more long sentences, the Europeanization of word orders, and the increasing use of subjects.Chapter Two elaborates the relationship between metaphor and the language in Mu Dan's poetry. Metaphor is the charateristic of Mu Dan's language meaning which is realized by image thinking. Metaphor, which shares many similarities with symbolism, image, and thought constitute the trinity. Complicated and contradictory as Mu Dan's experience in peotry is, it can only be thoroughly expressed by metaphor. Metaphor gives flesh and blood, abstraction, and ambiguousness. As a method to make the peotry context coherent, metaphor surpasses the definite boundary between rationality and irritionality, as well as logic and illogic, deviating the normal logic and thinking style, and combining the image and personal experience, hence it fulfills the unity of peotry and enables the complex elements of it to become a whole.Chapter three states the relationship between irony and the language in Mu Dan's peotry. Irony, a thinking style in Mu Dan's peotry, would undoubtedly be adopted by Mu Dan because of his identity as a fringe poet, personal experience, artistic pursuit, education. Mu Dan achieved irony via using contrast in content, syntax, style, and multilayer in structure. Mu Dan, following the style of other poets of irony, told his story in a calm way. When narrating and portraying Mu Dan used many neutral words which by no means are unemotional but imply Mu Dan's emotion preference and value orientation. By Irony, a rhetoric device, we get a language style in which the literal meaning is different from its real one. The irony from the thinking and philosophy brings about the ambiguousness and intellectual monologue in Mu Dan's peotry.Both the external usage of words and the internal achievement of language meaning in Mu Dan's peotry have been modernized, which means Mu Dan has broken away from the tradition and realized modernity and consequently represents a successful transform of Chinese modern peotry to moderntiy.