Comparative Study On Wen Yiduo And Xu Zhimo Poetry

In the Chinese New Poetry development history, Liang Qichao was the first one to raise the problems existing in the poetry field and loud shout out the slogan "poetic revolution" under the banner of political revolution, but he did not really integrate the spirits of the times to poetry. With improvement of self-cognition, poetic creation has changed and flourished. At this moment, Hushi firstly stood out to publish some new poetry of early days in vernacular Chinese with amounts of advanced intellectuals. With the efforts they made, vernacular poetry of early days has formed their own style and characteristic-the original form. In the trend that people pay more and more attention to find themselves, new poetry began to show a different attitude towards life and aesthetic ideas, which became a base for the forming and developing of all kinds of poetry genres, such as crescent poetry, lake poetry. In many poetry genres, crescent poetry sets up a new banner, which contributed to the new poetry and established the new standard. Thus, the penman focused on the poets’concrete works of crescent poetry and combined with personal experience, paying the attention on the representatives Wen Yiduo and Xu Zhimo to do the comparative study on their poems. This essay aims to study the poems with differences in similarities and experience the poet’s different aesthetic personality. This essay has four chapters:The first chapter introduced the development of new poetry. Poetic creation cannot isolate from the times and backgrounds of society, so this chapter presented the development of new poetry from the proposition of poetic revolution to vernacular poetry of Hushi, then participation of the ambitious people, the establishment of the new poetry and different poetry genres. It wound focus on introducing crescent poetry and its rationale, especially the "three beauties":music beauty, painting beauty and architectural beauty, which would put the basis for preparative study on the poems of Xu Zhimo and Wen Yiduo.The second chapter emphasized on analyzing the differences between the poems of Wen Yiduo and Xu Zhimo, who both are the representatives of crescent poetry, but their poems demonstrate great differences which show their themes and pursuits of "three beauties". From the themes and contents, Wen Yidu’s poems mostly are patriotic, expressing the passionate love for country, which seems to be a soldier’s sincerity; while, Xu Zhimo’s mostly are love poems, depicting the tender and romantic sentiments, which show him a bel-esprit with amorous feelings. If we say Wen Yiduo takes the poems as a way to satire the real society and reach out his ideal, Xu Zhimo is the one who create poems with his life. Specific to the "three beauty" artistic pursuit:in music beauty, Wen Yiduo’s poetry rhythm is bright, syllable in order, and the voice is strong; but Xu Zhimo preferred the beautiful melody of fresh and pure rhythm. In the painting beauty, Wen used rhetoric to create magnificent but dignified picture which made his poems a western oil painting; Xu loved to put feelings on daily things so as to build a kind of deep message of artistic conception, which made his poems a Chinese free sketch painting. In architectural beauty, Wen pursued symmetry, making poems like a piece of toufu, square founder; Xu paid more attention on the change ups and downs based on the order, giving readers a flexible feeling.The third chapter would analyze the reasons of their different styles from the Ideological orientation, literary view and ideality of life. On the whole, Wen Yiduo’s poems show his strong love for motherland and calm thinking of the real world which strictly abide by "three beauties" the real problem. Xu zhimo’s poems are mainly to express spirit, the pure belief of religiousness, and eagerly pursuit for love.The fourth chapter mainly stated and affirmed the conclusion of the above analyses and self understanding of the two representatives’poems.