Type·Aesthetic·Transcendence

There are four types of the time consciousness in the Chinese modernist poetry. Symbolist poetry in the 1920s and Dai Wangshu, He Qifang in the 1930s affected by the tradition show the linearity time to lament the passage of time and transience of life. Bian Zhilin affected by the theory of relativity and the stream of consciousness shows the relative time in the poetry texts. Fei Ming deeply immersed in the Zen Buddhism realizes everything about the outside and inner of world by quiescent time. Feng Zhi and the nine famous poet influenced by Rainer Maria Rilke, Eliot, Yeats and other poets of Western modernism pursue the integration of past, present and future.There are four main aspects of the aesthetic appreciation of time consciousness in the text, structure, form of the modernist poetry. Characteristics of water similar as time makes it the most common image for time. As different characteristics of water, the cultural meanings indicated by the water imagery are different. Memory of past and current forms an important prototype structure in the Modernism poetry:comparison of "present-past". Li, Dai, He, Bian, etc emphasize the "different". Feng Zhi, Mu Dan, etc stress on the "same". The ways of rebelling physical of time as a ideal aesthetic time include jumping and deformation. Spatialization of time includes spatialization of memory, spatialization of time image and spatialization of text temporal structure.The comparison of time eternal and ephemeral makes the ancient and modern poets anxiety for time and the pursuit for eternal. The perception for meaningless of reality time makes the modernist poets more attempts to pursuit the eternal. The way of surpass time of Chinese modernist poets includes religious, philosophical, aesthetic and realistic. However, there are pains, wandering, contradiction, and struggle in the process of surpassing. It is a important profile for heart silhouette of modern intellectuals.