The Concept Of Lyric Poetry, Goethe Poetics

Trichotomy of epopee, drama and lyric is not created by Plato, this theory is formed in modern times. The concepts of lyric are different with each other in different times. In ancient times, lyric is poesy accompanied with lyre heptachord. In modern times, lyric means versicle used to express ideology and emotion, but not to describe circumstance. The different of compartmentalize principle leads to great change of concept and status of lyric, from be excluded to on tripartite confrontation with epopee and drama. The typical scholars who support this trisection system are Hegel and Schelling. Similarly, Goethe also divides poem to"three kinds of truly nature forms". They are narrative, poetry and drama. Consequently, from a historical perspective, poetics J-Teisai theory of Goethe belongs to modern time theories. Among these scholars, Hegel associates lyric with subjective things, such as soul, feeling and so on. Hegel thinks that lyric has absolute subjectivity. But in Goethe's opinion, literature must obey objective reality. This paper analyzes this problem by comparing poetics theories of Goethe, Hegel and Schelling: Firstly, Goethe's idea is an integral system, subjectivity and impersonality coexist with each other in his lyric, and have different status. Then, this conclusion is validated within two aspects, one is Goethe's lyric works, the other is compare of Yana Romantic lyric and Goethe's lyric. Finally, the paper draw conclusion as follows: Goethe's poetics idea plays a hinge role in poetics history. He inherits and exceeds predecessor, and his idea enlightens later scholars.