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"dislocation" And "return"

Posted on:2010-09-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S B LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360278970502Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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As a poet, Wai-lim Yip is fed on the one hand in Chinese traditional culture; on the other hand, he grows up in the influence of modern western culture. Under the collision of Eastern and Western cultures, the poet Wai-lim Yip experienced from the exile, the dislocation to searched, and the return process, which manifested in his poetry. Simultaneously he used the poetry to express his anxiety during it. The poet Wai-lim Yip's mental journey was among three different politics culture circle, which were Hong Kong and Taiwan, Western and mainland of China, reflected the social culture phenomenon then, and it was culture exchanges and collision's reflection between Chinese and the Western counties.The first chapter mainly discusses the relationships between the poet Wai-lim Yip and Hong Kong and Taiwan cultures, who was exiled by the time. During Hong Kong and Taiwan cultural circles, he fully enjoyed pain of the dislocation. Then he kept on chasing in the colonized culture in Hong Kong, and was anxious about the modernism impact under Taiwan culture.The second chapter mainly elaborates the relationships between the poet Wai-lim Yip and the West cultures. In the Western mainstream cultures, the poet Wai-lim Yip used the poetry to analysis the culture circumstance of Western cultures at that time by the high sense of responsibility and penetrating idea. Homeland's losing, mother tongue's nostalgia, and the Western cultural dissociation and anxious let Wai-lim Yip fully suffer the suffering, so he has formed his unique culture "depressed". Simultaneously, he carried on the profound ponder to the Chinese culture future and the destiny.The third chapter mainly elaborates the relationships between the poet Wai-lim Yip and the Chinese traditional cultures. With anxious in the Western culture linguistic environment, the poet Wai-lim Yip was urged to seek "the root" unceasingly. His footsteps pervaded the whole world, but he finally seeked in entire Chinese culture with written Chinese. In this process, he expressed his feelings into the natural scenery and love, dispelled the loneliness in heart, and then the style of poetry also presented the symbolic transformation. He broke through the depressed emotion in the crevice, and returned to the Eastern cultures , which is the habitat of his soul and Taoism esthetics is the foundation of his life.In brief, with the poetry under the different cultural linguistic environment, the poet Wai-lim Yip expressed his mental journey and the creation course, which simultaneously reflected culture exchange, the collision and the fusion between Chinese and the Western countries at that time.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wai-lim Yip, dislocation, depressed, homesickness, Taoism esthetics
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