Liang Zongdai And His "Pure Poetry" Theory

As a representative figure who explored the future of new poetry during 20th centry, Liang Zongdai absorted, tiansformed, abounded and developped the late French symbolism theory of pure poetry. During the periods of 1920s-1930s, Chinese poetry was in a complex situation and poetry poems of inhererent characteristics suffered unprecedented impact. Liang Zongdai transformed the late French symbolism theory of pure poetry with horizon of expectations. "Pure poetry" was the product of Liang Zongdai combining ancient and modern, oriental and western. The thchnique of his combining work was skilled, harmonious without any trace of leakage, which attributed to his excellent understanding of tiaddional Chinese culture and seized the essence of the late French symbolism. Chinese classical pastoral poems are the predecessors of "pure poetry" if we track down the origins which corresponded with the "purity" of the late French symbolism. Liang Zongdai grasped the same points of these two cultures and absorted, transformed, abounded and developped "pure poetry" theory. Liang Zongdai predominated symbolism and "pure poetry" theory was based on holding the essence of symbolism deeply and aimed at outstanding problems of Chinese poetry. His understanding of the late French symbolism and "pure poetry" theory was beyond our imagination. "Pure poetry" theory was reasonable misunderstanding of the late French symbolism which was based on the horizon of expectations to link Chinese-Western poetics and merge ancient-modern poetics. We may see what he absortd, what he discarded, and what he transformed from the misunderstanding of symbolism.