Salvation Of The Soul: The The Mudan Poetry Religious Connotation

Major:chinese modem and contemporary listeratureSpeciality: chinese modem and contemporary literature and chineseand foreign cultureTutor:Prof. chen Ben~Author:Zhang DemingMudan is an outstanding P~et in the 1940s. In his Peoms religious emotion is a `wry impt,rtantspiritual connotation. The dissertation is to e4~und systematically the relationship betcwen Mudan's fx,ems and religions esP. Christianity, the religious emotion ` s manifestation in his P,ems and itslocal colorism.This dissertation consists of three Parts.Part I "hungry soul" and the therapy. Mudan, a mcdem intellectual, as the dissertationanalyses, Possesses double Personality quality that connects" self - suffering" uith "suffering oth-ers". By Pondering for the reality, he sharply found that Chinese had a bad spiritual disease namedas "hungry soul". The disease cms resulted j5t~m the cultwul transition that the traditional wluessystem had been broken dau..n and the new has not yet been built up. By contrasti'w research in Chi-nese and foreign culture, M~dan found a thempy, the Christianity. The therapy that M~dan foundtws in aider to realise both " self ?sa'ting"and" sawig others". At the end of the Part, the disser-tation Points out that, because of the double responsibility of looking for self?spiritual ?home andconcerning about national misery, Mudan found the spiritual disease named as" hungry soul" thatspread all awr the country and kescribed a medicine that ~ws Christianity to cure it. This is a spe-cial spiritual connotation of Mudan' s Poems.Part II: the dewloPrnent of IVkidan `s religous concePt. By tracing back to Midan ` s life andthe career of ~etry, the ptzrt thou~ the detelopnent of Mudan ` s religious concept that is from an-titheism to Pantheism to Christianity.Part Ill: the religious feeling and its local colorism in Ivludan' s Poems. The religious feelingin Mudan ` s ~ems is similar to the outlook on life of Christianity such as "the suffering from be-lief', "the thirst for regaining childhood", "Praying and repenting" and so on. Meamtiiile, be-cause Mudan is a typical Chinese intellectual, his religious feeling in poems shact.ia `wry distinctrwlocal colorism such as "to exfress personal belief in collectite Patterns", "based on the reality, toblend the reality ttith transcendent ~wrld" and ~rj on. The local colorism tells us a close relationshipbettteen Mudan ` s ideology of uniting self - sa'cing and sa't~ing others and his Poems.