The Comparative Study On The Poetics Between Wang Fuzhi And Ye Xie

Classical culture of China came into the period of self-summary with its own logic in the early and middle Qing Dynasty. Wang Fuzhi and Ye Xie were the representative figures in the Comprehensive study on the poetics within this period. This thesis has been written to make a comparative study on the representative figures in the field of poetics during the Qing Dynasty, in order to improve the understanding of the poetic features of this period, therefore, achieve the importance of the comparison.This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter One presents the analogies of poetics between Wang Fuzhi and Ye Xie. First, although the main concerns of Wang Fuzhi and Ye Xie are the sentiments and changes respectively, the final inclination of their poetics is towards the return of Confucian poetics. Then, both of them surveyed the writing of poems in terms of the author-subject and the world -the object, which forms the primitive theory of the subject and object. Furthermore, they acknowledged the fact that the pursuit of truth is the inner true characteristics of the poems, which urged them to pay great attention to the styles and personalities of the poets. Finally, images and imaginations are the natural features of the poems in terms of the aesthetic standards, which have contributed much to the development of poetics.Chapter Two is an analysis of the causes of the analogies of the poetics between Wang Fuzhi and Ye Xie. First, it is the factor of times that leads to the deeply rooted notion of Confucianism poetics. Then, because of the background and climate of academy, they just held the representative positions in respect of summary, instead of the creative reform. Finally, the inclination to the theory of Li Xue based on the noumena Qi. determines that it is on the opinion that their poetics are partly realistic and the flying flag of moral philosophy.Chapter Three demonstrates the different points of the poetics between Wang Fuzhi and Ye Xie. In the light of argumentation, the difference of the fundamental styles of their poetic works,lies in their different argumentative way, the macro-argumentative way and the micro-remark way. Wang Fuzhi centered on the idea of "poems expressing sentiments subject to the moral philosophy, from the angle of the noumena of poems. Ye Xie focused on the law of the Development and Changes from the angle of the cosmos and the historical poems. The standards of the values of poems differ. Wang Fuzhi built on his critical standard of poems by the Book of Poems and the Sixteen Ancient Poems. Ye Xie measured up the high performance in the poem by the standard whether it conforms to the values of the Six Books and whether it reaches the magical situation resulting from the changes. The literal developmental values of them are tradition oriented and changes focused respectively, the object of the poems therefore, has transferred from the poetic sentiments to concerns about the nature of law, the existence and the phenomena.Chapter Four shows the different causes of the poetics between Wang Fuzhi and Ye Xie. The outline of Wang Fuzhi's books is that the Six Books makes demands on him to create a new age. The feature of Ye Xie' books is that his obligation is to form his own unique theory. The aesthetic taste of Wang Fuzhi is the style of the Jin and Song Dynasties which is featured of writing poems in a very subtle, delicate and implicit way while that of Ye Xie is whether the primary concern of poems is consistent with the law of the Six Books and the nature. The difference of the subject from authors, results in their different aesthetic tastes. Comparatively speaking, the taste of Wang Fuzhi is pure and traditional while that of Ye Xie is wide and popular.Chapter Five is of importance to make the contrast of poetics between Wang Fuzhi and Ye Xie. First, the notion that the Tang poems are highly praised by Wang Fuzhi and the Song poems are highly valued by Ye Xie seems to have other new explanations. Wang Fuzhi didn't cherish the Tong poems highly and Ye Xie didn't a...