| Virginia Woolf, a major novelist, essayist and critic, was one of the leaders in the literature movement of modernism in Britain. During her life time, she wrote The Mark On The Wall, Kew Gardens, Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Between The Acts and many other important novels. Her works not only enrich the art gallery of modern western novels, but also put a fresh steam into modern western novels by her special theory of poetic novels. At the same time, her description of inherent truth and instantaneous experience makes us feel the writer's attitude towards life and realize her life consciousness.I only want to discuss her "poetic novels" from her important novel The Waves, and also hold a flowing wave from her life river.Woolf always pays attention to inquiring into man's existence state, and life significance during her works, especially in The Waves. In other words, The Waves is basically a powerful movement of life.First, The Waves is Woolf's key achievement in which she realized her poetic novels' theory.The Waves is though "inherent monologue" and "poetic novels" to emerge figures' soul, depict characters, create the artistic conception. By one after another inherent monologue, we can observe the procedure of time and life from macroscopic view of poems .The lyric poetry lets the readers deeply feel that the writer's feeling and analysis the whole universe and human's fate is beautiful, careful as well as profound, which attract the readers to involuntarily think about the significance of life and the state of existence. This exactly shows us her creation theory: the novels can be the same as poetry. They are separated from the direct dependence on life, but they will make the readers excited by its own attraction.Before every chapter of The Waves ,there is introductory remarks which is like an essay. Together with the formal passage ,they make up a harmonious entirety. These introductory remarks acting as symphony, shows us the procedure of life. Sunrise and sunset ,the tides of the sea, and growing and withering of the grass symbolize the birth ,growth, mature, decrepit and death and suggests a cycle of birth and death is becoming the tools of creating characters. This is another outstanding characteristic of Woolf's poetic novels.Second, strictly speaking, there is no key figure in The waves. The whole passage is made up of six characters' separate inherent monologue. We can explore the six figures' soul by this means. This novel reflects the writer's life consciousness: real life and struggle fetter her own life and only putting the heart into nature can help us find the significance of the life and go back to the life origin.The times when Woolf lived experienced the First World War and then the Second World War. This unheard-of calamity killed thousands of millions of people and persecuted billions soul. Traditional morality, sense of value and present social order were bombed into pieces. People lived in a confused and funny world ,frightened. The Waves disclosed vividly that after the first World War, in Britain society, there was serious pessimism and skepticism deep in people's mind. After experiencing the unprecedented destruction and calamity, the common people in Britain, especially the youth had confusion in their mind. They were not only disappointed at the reality but also puzzled at value of their disordered society. They loved life , longed to mix with the world ,but the reality was so puzzling and disappointing therefore they wanted to get out of the real life. Woolf was in her fifties when she was writing The Waves .Her life experience made her have a clear and deepgoing thoughts about reality. So in this novel, she used the six characters to express this kind of conflicts between reality and dreams.During all her life, Woolf continued to seek the sense of existence. In real life ,she thought life was full of tragedies. As a daughter of middle bourgeoisie, she received good education and became a famous wri...
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