Poetic Construction Of Everday Life

Everyday life has been an important dimension of Wang Anyi. Paying attention to Shanghai, Wang attaches great importance to relationship between imagination and cultural memory, depicting a variety of marginal figures in everyday life, showing their survival predicament and spiritual struggle. Throughout Wang’s12novels,"I" turn into general public. Its transitional period comes from "Everlasting Regret"(1995) to "land of Lawrence"(2005), which was selected as research object. From figures’ poetic life, Wang’s identity anxiety is excavated, her humane care and ideal care in the modernization is explored.Around everyday life, Wang built a poetic Shanghai composed of ordinary people. In this paper, the starting point is Wang’s poetic pursuit, then narrative strategy behind everyday life is explored. As everyday life is personal basic survival fact, Wang used a lot of scene description, which led everyday life as a "role". At the same time, Wang refined worldly poetic spirit and gave everyday life idealized features. Under the care of poetic everyday life, Wang cancel the dramatic structure of the novel, so that everyday life leads marginal figures wondering in the city, which highlighted rootless status and lonely memories. Through poetic construction of everyday life, Wang shows personal real experiences in the modernization process. Her poetic description of ordinary people is a method of fighting against writing myth from Shanghai.