Study On Realm In Niu Han's Poetry Theory

Niu Han attaches great importance to Realm. He empresses the idea that a satisfactory poem must be possessed with good Realm once again in his theories Poetics of a Dreamer and Album of Learning to Write Poems. In Niu Han's idea, a good poem must be given an excellent Realm. But what can be called an excellent Realm? First, it must embody the strength of profound, sublime, majestic characteristics of a poem. Second, there must be some majestic realm of human which is melted with the artistic realm of a poem. The two of them work together and join each other perfectly. It needs the poet to be open-minded, advanced in spirit and thoughts, and nurture his own human realm. Then, it has to be nature-loved, life-loved, upward and generous in mind, which is also Niu Han's Mongolia national spirit. Niu Han is both a poet and theorist. He improves the Realm theory further on base of Wang Guowei's. Niu Han's Realm theory dilutes the elegant, lulu, objective side of Wang Guowei's Realm theory, and put forward the sublime, cordial, and subjective much further.In the first part of this thesis, the prelude, it is the research background, the aim, the content and the meaning of this study to be discussed. It contains the concept of Niu Han's theory of Realm as well.The second part of the article analyses what are consisted in Niu Han's Realm. The most basic ones are social and historical contents of life; the leading factor is profound and true feelings of poets on base of his abundant experiences of life; the subjective factor is the majestic charm of the poet's personality should be melted in Realm. Human realm should live together with realm of poem. In addition, Realm should be created without carving of artistic skill and should object empty preaching.In the third part it is the openness and self-reliance of realm to study. The Realm of a poem must be given some unique characteristics, as well as a poet; and the Realm of a poem must be given some characteristics which express the spirits of the nation. Then, it should also be open-minded enough to face the excellent literary theories actively. It has to learn good theories from every nation in the world.In the forth part it discusses how Niu Han's Realm theory employs the Mongolia national spirits and how does it inherit and improve Hans'traditional Realm theory. Niu Han's Realm theory is blessed with Mongolia spirits such as liking of nature, free and upward, strong and generate. It wipes out the fragment beauty and improves the strong beauty of Realm. On these bases, Niu Han forms his own Realm theory, which has characteristics of Mongolia, and which uplifts as well as inherits Wang Guowei's Realm theory.In general, Niu Han's Realm theory contains strong sincere personal emotions as well as inclusive world-mindedness. It asks spiritual harmonious unification between a poet and his poem, and advocates a dynamic, optimistic, profound, emotional pursuit of aesthetics.