A Comparative Study Between The Chinese Poetries Of Anti-Japan War And The Japanese Poetries Of Invasion War

Based on the Sino-Japan War, the creations of the war poetries both in China andJapan have been showing much comparability. However, we are still short of thecomparative study of these poetries when comparing with the abundant achievementswe’ve got in the field of Chinese anti-war poetries. This determines what this articlewants to achieve is to make a comparative study between the Chinese anti-war poetriesand the Japanese invasive poetries which created by the Chinese and the Japanese poetsduring the war time as the followings. Chapter One: to maintain the aim and theacademic value of the research, to give an overview of the poetries and to define thestudy object. On the basis, the author divided the paper into two parts. PartⅠ: whichmainly discuss the poetries about War writing and “the others”. the former: to concludethe differences and similarities of the poetries on the basis of different descriptions ofthe war (patriotic war to Chinese and “holy war” to Japanese); the latter: an analysis ofthe image—“the Others” which refers to the invasion image of Japanese in Chinesepoetries and also refers to the image of China in Japanese poetries, to deepen theunderstanding of the Japan’s “Pen force”, then lead to the study of the subject (thepoets). PartⅡ: which mainly study the differences of poetries from the angle of thepoets. Chapter Four: to discuss the concepts of “Home” and “Country” through thecomparison of the poets’ consciousness. Chapter Five: an analysis of life awareness(which includes the survival consciousness and the life value consciousness) reflected inthe Sino-Japanese poetries. Chapter Six is the conclusion of this paper.