The Road Of Life And The Song Of Facing The Abyss

In the early 1980s,when dim poems representative of new poetical tide plunged into predicament, many younger poets fixed their eyes on the old Chinese traditional culture. In order to rejuvenate anew, they dug down into the sedimentary rock of the Oriental cultural tradition to mine the spiritual nourishment whereby they could accomplish the historical mission of reconstructing national cultural psychology. As far as their techniques of expression, they tended to the form of expression of modern epic devised by western modern poets Eliot and Elitis, however, the rich poetic tradition and national arts offered their poems very nostalgic nature. In this way, a generation of young poets devised and constructed the exclusive poetic landscape with their rare talents and lofty artistic aspiration. By analyzing the representative poets such as Jiang He and Yang Lian, the thesis would attempt to expound and prove conclusively the subjective implication and creative characteristics of "epic poetry" by historical and esthetic research means. Facing the same old and profound traditional culture, Jiang He and Yang Lian's artistic treatment are utterly different. Beginning with the call of heroism and other deep, firm and strong feelings, Jiang He gradually changed his theme into the modern transformation of the archetypal spirit and his poems began to grow broad-minded and moderate in the external appearance and texture. A new kind of poetry derived from his poems was characterized by tranquility and harmoniousness and followed by later wholist poetry. Nevertheless, Yang Lian expressed his theme of the history and culture from the inner world of life. By transforming the passionate concern over the realities into the realization and comprehension of life, he conveyed bleak, wild and tragic state of life in primitive civilization and praised man's resoluteness, steadfastness and transcendence when they were confronted with suffering and hardship. The new kind of poetry characterized by quest for the primitive virility of life carried on by later poets Liao Yi Wu and Hai Zi to a new height.The "epic poetry" has haven their own artistic creativity on the foundation of classic epic. In content, it sought for the extension of the special structure so as to meet multimensional esthetic needs of modern people; In the form, it represents pluralistic artistic style and features. In this way, It has established the model and type of epicpoems.In addition, the thesis generalizes and analyses a series of relations between modern epic and primitive epic form, style and model and content levels and enumerates several main practical significance and historic achievements. Combined with the suggestions put forward at the thesis hopes to detect even more elegant prancing figure under the future artistic sky in China.