The Comparison Of Art Of The Poems Composed By Li He And Li Shan-yin From The View Of Aestheticism

Both Li He and Li Shan-yin are the critical figures in the middle period and late period of Tang Dynasty. The subject of this thesis is the comparison of the two writers'poems under the view of aestheticism. The thesis begins with a brief introduction of the word'Aesthetic'and the european athetic movement during the late nineteenth century. Then, it discusses their lives and its effects on their composition. Li He , an ambitious genius, dies young with regret. On one hand, his brief life enables him to sustain his fantacy which impose a luxious impression on the poems. On the other hand, his life is so short that he doesn't get enough time to make his writing skill mature. Hence the tough and rough characters of the poems. To the contrary, Li Shan-yin enjoys a relatively long life , which benefits his experiences , enhances his art about poetry and his thought about politics as well. Hence the harmony and the maturity. In the third chapter, it discusses the two poets'favorite genologies: Li He prefers Yue Fu, while Li Shan-yin is good at composing LÇœShi. Generally speaking, in Yue Fu, Li He's emotion fluctuates dramatically, which betrays his lack of logic. In contrast, LÇœShi likes an intense space where Li Shan-yin depicts his inner life. Because of its loose demand of coherence, readers are unawear of the poet's anti-logic thoughts. The fourth chapter leads to their inheritance and development of Chu Ci. Li He's poets boasts two merits. They are saturated with his anxiety towards death.. And the poet chooses the ugly things and endows them with the weird beauty. The whimsy and ghostiness originates from Chu Ci, which is the so-called'weird'in Liu Xie's critical masterpiece The Literary Mind: Elaboration. This speciality resembles the french poet Beaudelaire's writing style. The final chapter elaborates on rhetoric. According to the research carried out by Qian Zhong-shu and Tao Wen-peng, the pronoun, correspondence and the colour, it goes further into the art thoughts which underlie these three phenomenon. Li He's pursuit of 'weirdness'results in the Defamiliarize. What's more, the highlight of subjects'appearances means his intuition towards superficies. The pronoun and correspondence produces seperation and strangeness. It's an ancient Chinese classical version of Defamiliarize in the case of Formalism. Compared with the moder flavour in Li He's poems, Li Shan-yin's poems , both its rhetoric and rhyme, display an elaboration, sophstication and implication of Chinese flavour.