The Cultural Comments And Research On Guo Moruo Against The Background Of Japan's Taisho Era

The 10 years which Guo Moruo spent studying in Japan shaped his literary outlook and he went on to become a great master of modern Chinese literature in a foreign land of diverse culture. "Goddess" established his status in May Fourth Movement. As with Lu Xun in his youth, he converted from being a physician, a rescue of the body to a litterateur, a rescue of the mind. His thinking was widely related to the Japanese culture in Taisho Era which in turn came from western modern thought. Japanese songs, haikus and autobiographies exerted a subtle influence on him. In addition, his marriage to a Japanese woman and raising five children with her bonded him with Japan.Until now some people still can't forgive him for deserting his Japanese wife and children, fleeing Japan to China and starting another family with Yu Liqun during the summer of 1937. Some people can't understand his self-denial at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. However, his relentless pursuit of literature and the fact that he represented the community of Chinese writers from the 1920s to the 1970s after all. In this point, research has shown a profound significance and value in his work.Although Guo Moruo studied in Japan for ten years, there are not many textual research papers about him except his autobiographical records. The lack doesn't match this great master's identity well because "thinking much of evidence but little of statement" is stressed in research. Hence the difficulty of this topic. Yet there is a certain value in tracing Guo's literature trail. In studying his literature forming process one can also discover a novelty from the angle of cultural relations in Japan's Taisho Era.This dissertation is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is "western art's enlightenment on Guo Moruo's early poetry".The creative style in Guo Moruo's early poetry constituted the latent components of free verse. He took in western literature based on thick Chinese ancient poetry culture. Immersed in the May Fourth spirit, Guo Moruo was filled with fantasy about the rebirth of Chinese society. He was inspired by Whitman advocacy of the liberation of the mind, democracy, freedom, romanticism and revolt against convention. Inspired by the vigorous, bold and loud tone, Guo Moruo broke away from the bondage of old-style poetry and wrote his own poems with a new awareness. Nietzsche's advocacy of evaluating all values, denying all traditions, and advocating individualism and self-awareness enlightened Guo Moruo. Hence in Goddess he presented the connotations of expanding strength, self-expression, and the emancipation of man's...