From The Pure Belief To The Thick Mission

Wen Yiduo is a poet, a scholar and a democratic soldier of great renown in the Chinese new poetry history. His life is full of glory, although the course of his life is not very long, his theory was thick , numerous and diverse. Looking over the path of Wen Yiduo's life poet's life, we may see the development vein of his literary theory clearly, at the beginning, from aestheticism to nationalism, then arrived to patriotism, developed into the final democracy. From his development course of literary theory, we may observe the change characteristic of the poet's emotion path and winding development course, and we may know and feel the poet's inquiry and think, concern and asking, understanding and resonance to social reality. At the same time, we may also see the huge patriotic zeal, the bright democratic individuality, the intense realistic mood and the rigid society dream in his theory. If, the aestheticism in the poet's preliminary thought were only his pure belief in the arts, then at the last stage of his theory development, his democracy theory had become a kind of undertaking and thick mission to the social reality. Furthermore, it was a direct reflection of surpassing and promotion of his literary theory.