Redemptions Of Poems And Redemptive Poems

Zhu Xiang, a tragic writer in modern Chinese literature history, died young. Lu Xun once called him Keats in China and many other renowned Chinese scholars such as Shen Congwen, Su Xuelin, and Liu Wuji wrote articles and comments about him. In today's cultural context, we can get new perceptions and feeling about Zhu Xiang and his poems if we look at them from today's perspective. Zhu's practice of writing poems and construction of his poetry is a great treasure that can offer us lots of experience and lessons. Zhu Xiang experienced a tragic journey of life, which was a real reflection of souls of Chinese intellectuals of his age and a continuation of tragic fate of all Chinese intellectuals since ancient times. On the basis of text reading, this thesis attempts to give an in-depth analysis of Zhu's poems from two perspectives of arts and life.The thesis is made up of two parts.Part One: psychic part. This part mainly discusses Zhu's unique way of redemption as a poet. As an unconscious successor of Hu-Xiang Culture, Zhu has a psychic resonance with Qu Yuan, an ancient patriotic poet. Their poems have many things in common: patriotic sentiment and Jin-shi Thoughts, desperation of living and redemption of poems, and transcendency of souls and return of death. But their poems still have distinctive individual features and unique historical content. By comparison and analysis, we can better understand Zhu's psychic world and salvation of his soul.Part Two: artistic part. This part probes into the arts of Zhu's poems from the angle of redemption and expounds how he tries to achieve a balance between traditional Chinese poems and western poems and pursue his own aesthetics in his poems. With reference to the poem texts, I will give a detailed analysis of the four aspects of his poems diachronically and synchronically: concepts, contents, forms and images...