Wilderness, The Garden Of Eden, Orchards,

Rilke's and Mu Dan's poetry are respectively in the mature period of modernism poetry in West and China, the similar age background they lived and the similar spiritual plight they faced urged them to reveal the state of human existence, think about the world origin and human nature to pursue the ideal home of human being. Though their poems are different, more or less in contents and forms from each other, they all use symbolism to imply the real and ultimate status of the world---the "Center" which endows this state with strength. The "Centre" in Rilke's and Mu Dan's poetry is the origin educing some other things, the foundation to maintain the integrity of life and the forces endowing the world with order. If the "Center" is reclusive, the world will become a wasteland, the age will be poor. So the poets imply the image what the world should look like by metaphorical expression of the Eden by the name of God and the gods. However, deep denial is in the recognition of this illusion. When the poets deny God and their own deceptions, they returned to the human and nature itself, expecting to establish an orchard by revivification of language and the relationship between life and death, through singing the praise of natural, humanchildhood and love. In the orchard, human life and all things are growing in the same traction of the "Center" as trees. Though the "center" is just another one illusion of the poets in the confused era, the poets'thinking of the existence and the pursuit of the ideal not only have raised the banner for the spiritual world of mankind, but also have reflected the duties that the poet is the sacred claimer in the dark ages just as Heidegger said.