Laugh With Tears

Wen Yiduo is an important poet in the modern Chinese literature history.The humorous style is an indistinct clue that runs through Wen Yiduo's works.Wen Yiduo's poetry creating career can be divided into two stages,the earlier stage of True Me and Red Candle,and the later stage of Dead Water and Poems outside Poetic Collections.The humorous style of Wen Yiduo's poetry shows a transition from brisk and witty to heavy and dismal.It also can be described as a change from "naive humor" to "sad humor".The rhetoric devices of allegory,personification and paradox,the dramatization spoken language and the reversal structure are the main artistic techniques of Wen Yiduo's humorous poetry.To sum up,the last two techniques are the tensile structures of emotion that can be described as "internal seriousness and external humor","seriousness before humor" and "humor before seriousness".Wen Yiduo developed a manner of his own not only through outside influence but also through internal factor.The important reasons for Wen Yiduo's humorous style of works lie in his distinct fighter character and gentleman disposition.Owing to the fighter character,Wen Yiduo realized comedic transcendency to reality and himself and maintained the reverse way of thinking.As a gentleman,Wen Yiduo expressed true feelings in his poetry and upheld the idea of "the rationality controlling the emotion".These are the subjective reasons for Wen Yiduo's humorous style.