The Spiritual "Monologue" In The "Modern" Aesthetics World

Among the numerous poets in the history of Chinese modern literature, He Qifang is called "dream-drawing poet", and his poems and proses are classified as "monologue"style. As an important writer in the "modernist school", He Qifang had shown his distinctive aesthetic feature different from other writers'of this school in his early poems and proses in 1930s,especially in the choosing of imageries and the structure of their theme content. The most important and nuclear imagery in He Qifang's poems and proses is the "dream", and to enrich this abstract imagery, there are lots of imagery series: first, the character imagery series which can be further divided into maiden imageries, the aged imageries and self-imageries; Second, the nature imageries, among which the water imagery ranks the first place. Moreover, there are many plant, animal imageries and imageries of ancient cities with deserted streets and castles with destroyed buildings. There are different time imageries. The summer in 1930 is the boundry, before which they are mostly autumn and dusk, after it, winter and night. In a word, the imageries in He Qifang's poems and proses experienced a course from fragrant plants and beauties to the ancient cities and deserts. By systematically classifying and prototype understanding his imageries, we can discover there are different themes between lines, that is: striving perseveringly for love and beauty; deep survey of the dream and fact; ultimate pondering over life and death. It is the poly-structure of the theme content that makes He Qifang's poems and proses gained a prolonged artistic life and charm. He Qifang on the one hand inherited the styles and features of Chinese classical poems, on the other hand absorbed the essence of western literature, and had successfully brewed a misty and dreamlike mood in his poems and proses. With his both factual and imaginary artistic methods and a good combination of Chinese and western element, he had drawn pieces of splendor poetic pictures for us, and built one and another poetic space which is like flowers in a mirror and the moon in the water. From them, we deeply savour wisps of lone and mournful poetic pathos under or around the picture and space. He Qifang joined the circle of poets under the influence of the "new moon"style. So at first, his poems are strict to "new moon"prosody, but soon, he gradually cast off the glorious shroud of the "new moon", and stepped into "modern"prose style. Almost at the same time, he began to "write in non-divided lines", that is to compose proses. And these proses have distinct poetic features. So in general, his proses embody a kind of thorough comprehension and coherent aesthetic character. There are inner factors and external influence sources that make HeQifang's proses into the spiritual "monologue"in the "modern"aesthetics world. His innate temperament, character and the experiences of his early life are the main inner causes of his "monologue"style poems and proses. Nurtured by Chinese classical poems including the Sao style created by Qu Yuan, rhapsody cultivated from Han Dynasty and poem style in the late Tang Dynasty, He Qifang was also influenced by the western Romanticism, Symbolism, the style of English and American modern school, the master pieces of poets and writers at that time. A general survey of He Qifang's early proses between 1930 and 1937, has in ideology shown the long and rugged "Road in dreams"taken by a larger number of liberal intellectuals at that time, and has stated clearly that the Chinese new poem and modern prose has come to its nature period finally after the development in 1920s. Every tributary of Chinese modern literature has converged at last into a vast and mighty spring river flowing in the sea of world literature. And He Qifang's poems and proses are just a stream of spring water in this river of art.