Three Primary Colors Of White, Yellow, Red: Pure Poetry

The pure poem theory in the 1920's and 1930's in China, as pursuing ultimately to poem, played a positive role to development of the vernacular poem. Facing the situation of lacking poesy in the initial state, some poets Represented by Mu Mutian Wang Duqing Liang Zongdai and Dai Wangshu attempted to draw lessons from the western pure poem theory to look for and built the possibility to construct Chinese vernacular poem poesy. Their pursuit was a"accept poem and poem filtration"course.Though pure poem theories in China can mostly find its western theory origin,face the complicated situation of strong radiation and realistic society of classical literary heritage, poet who recommend pure poem were impossible to move western characteristic of poem directly to Chinese vernacular poem. They need to choose the appropriate poem form and poem standard, so that the masses of readers of China can accept such brand-new poem. In addition, China's particular social environment makes these poets who recommend the pure poem have enthusiasm of a kind of revolution, development of the pure poem theory is full of contradictions of aesthetic and practicability all the time. We can symbolize the western pure poem theory through the way that white, signify through the way that yellow that classical that studies the origin in traditional poem, symbolize poets ideal enthusiasm to politics through the way that red. The pure poem theory of China, just develop here vigorously under white, yellow, red the Three Colures guide. Finally, this paper draw lessons from in the 20th century western theory resource also, until high view come to scrutinize the pure poem theory in the 1920's or 1930's again, have carried on the discussion to essential question, form question, content question of the pure poem separately.