Shape Of The God Of Melancholy And Depression

As a leader of modemist school in China's poetic circles, Dai Wang-shu's poem is dense of melancholy as a result of influences of classical cultural sentiment as well as foreign poetry currents, especially French symbolism. The melancholy, which was displayed in his poetry, is sincere, touching, tender as well. It is not only incessant chatter of soul which was full of twist and tums, but also sentiment in dim dreams.This article take Dai Wang-shu as object of research, pay much attention to his melancholic emotion in poetry and probe into Its cause, speciality, and expressional manner. The article is composed of three chapters. The first chapter explore the cause of melancholy by means of unstable social situations, dejected experiences of love, heavy-hearted and sentimental classical feelings, and dejected feelings of foreign poem trends. The second chapter concentrate on characteristic of melancholy on the grounds of affection, beauty, and nihilism. The third chapter, the last section, lay emphasis on embellishing melancholic emotion by dint of skillful strokes such as unique imagery groups, repeated sentences with sighs, modifiers which contain deep feelings, and desolate atmosphere.