Study On YE Xie's Poetic Theories

YE Xie is an important literary critic in late ming and erly qing dynasties. His Poetics theoretical monograph——Original Poem can compare favourably with LIU Xie's The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons in both systematicness and profundity. However, because of YE Xie's obscurity, and Original Poem's difference from widely accepted impassioned literary and poetic theories, his Original Poem was not attached importance to in a long time. In recent years, researches on YE Xie increased, but most of the researches are introductive and the discourse about his profound ideology is not enough.The study utilizes the method of intensive reading, combs YE Xie's poetic theories, finds the merits and drawbacks in his ideology, and compares with the eminences'poetic theories to seek the origins ofYE Xie's ideology.The study consists of four chapters. Chapter one discusses the change and succession. A poem learner should both succeed predecessor and to be creative, in order to form his own style. Chapter two is about the extraordinary of poem. On the one hand, writing good poems requires both industry and talent. on the other hand, there are not only dead methods but alive methods. Alive methods are ingenuity of poets. Write poets is unify of subjectivity and objectivity. The objectivity means theory, matter and affection, whereas the subjectivity means talent, courage, insight and power. Poets should insist on these standards. Only in this way poets can write good poems. Chapter three elaborates YE Xie's comments to illuminate his standards of good poems and the reason why poem died. Chapter four enumerates some poets and poetics'evaluation on YE Xie.