Modernistic Poetics Theory Of Liang Zongdai

The contemporary Chinese literature was born with the Enlightment, thus it is prone to realistic utility, which, to some extend, leads to the lost of the aesthetic meaning. In this way, the Chinese modern literature has always been in the tension of realistic utility and aesthetic meaning. The"Poetry Theory"of Liang Zongdai treats aesthetic meaning as one of valued principle based on rationalism of German classical philosophy and modernism. Liang's theory contains four areas: Pure Poetry, Symbolism Poetics, Poetry Form, and their aesthetic and philosophic basis. Pure Poetry sticks tothe pure aesthetic meaning of literature; The core of Symbolism Poetics is the"tally"theory which sets the essential task of poetry as the creation of an aesthetic language, meanwhile, the Symbolism was considered the origin of modern aesthetics; the Form Theory that Liang Zongdai put forward has therefore developed the form concept to monism that form and content is integrated. Pure Poetry and Poetry Form Theory are significant explorations to the aesthetic independence of literature. Liang's Symbolism Poetry and Poetry Form Theory have revealed the aesthetic features of modern trend of thoughts in literature, and also reflected universe consciousness of the German classical rationalism philosophy.