Ai Qing, Dai Wangshu Comprehensive Theory

Both Ai Qing and Dai Wangshu are very famous poets for their modern poetry in 1930-1940's in China. Their highly yielded poetry and solid poetic theories, not only set up significant models in their era; but also produce a far-reaching effect on today's poets. There are so many similarities and differences between them in poetic creation and theories, for both of them draw lessons from western symbolists to write modern poetry, so studying them comparatively is a very valuable and great practice.This thesis intends to entirely evaluate the two poets from culture orientation and taking artistic nutrition of Chinese and western cultural resources. First, the outside and macroscopic study includes poet's cultural orientation, with ideological orientation, literary orientation, social orientation as its contents, and accepting influence between Chinese and western poetry. The poet's culture orientation may decide the different personal attitude and value to the relationship with country, society and nature. The study of influence is to realize their traces of social ideology, formation of literary concepts and the choice of different poetic tradition. Under the similar background, there are so many differences between them on modern concepts and in spiritual contact with native or western literary tradition because of different cultureorientation.Second, according to the analysis above, the thesis intends to develop subtle and specific study in literary language stratum, literature images stratum and literary connotations stratum, which belong to internal aesthetic structure of texts. On the one hand, the author wants to study their differences and similarities of lyric poems from choosing images, designing artistic conceptions and expressing implications; on the other hand, by grasping their similarities and differences of lyric poems in poetic patterns, symbolic skill and language style, the author wants to uncover the internal aesthetic attitudes and individual features of them.At last, on the basis of the comparative analysis above, the author wants to draw a rational conclusion from their cultural ideologies, literary concepts and historical positions.Fang Runze(Chinese modern literature) Directed by Ren Guangtian...