Art Of Rhythm In Dai Wangshu's Poems

Dai Wangshu was well-known as a "Rainy poet". He was a leader in the modernist and a hot figure in the history of Chinese poetry. Dai Wangshu strived to explore the technique of expression for the rhythm of all his life. He made every effort to create the new poetry. They not only have the classical beauty as regulated verse, but also have the free beauty as free verse.93 poems reflect his practice in the rhythm art of Chinese& Western poetry.Dai Wangshu was greatly influenced by classical poetry and Western poetry. He applied different techniques of expression into poetry's creation. Poetry emotion fluctuated with the ups and downs of rhythm. This paper particularly studies the poetic theory and typical poetry. It explores the characteristics of the rhythm of poetry in the terms of speech rhythm, spoken rhythm, emotional rhythm and external rhythm. Therefore, the important position of Dai Wangshu's poetry in Chinese poetic rhythm history is obvious.Partâ… :Dai Wangshu was best known for the beautiful speech rhythm. It mainly manifested in several aspects:Regular breaks, symmetrical syllable, inflectional tone and harmony rhythm. To create such a phonological effect, Dai used reduplicative word, refrains, syllable and rhyme. The poetic emotion moved with music. The speech rhythm inherited and reformed ancient art of poetry.Partâ…¡:In the influence of Paul Fort and Franlis Jarnmes, Dai Wangshu began to break the barriers of regulated verse and ruthlessly deposed the musical beauty which had given him the crown of "Rainy poet". He organized oral language by using prose sentences, and expressed modern people's emotions by using natural rhythm of spoken language.Partâ…¢:In the inspired of early symbol poets, Dai Wangshu fully played lingual pictures feature and chord effect of image and imagery to achieve the cadence of emotional rhythm. This new approach is not only a heritage of traditional "Images for expression", but also a transplantation of Western Symbolism "Pure Poetry" theory.Partâ…£:Dai Wangshu devoted all his life to find the right expression for his poetry.It was called "the shoes fit for his own feet". The "shoes" of poetry was obviously the line condensed by verse. The uniformity of early poems was echoing to the ancient poetry and Wen Yiduo's "three principles", and cross-sentence was used mostly; since the "Rain Alley ", Dai Wangshu began to use enjambment to construct poetic line according to the expression of poetic emotion. The overall rhythm added to the image and liveliness of poetic content and emotion.