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Lu Xun's Prose Poem "himself", "weeds"

Posted on:2011-04-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L B ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360308980320Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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China has a perfect tradition of poetry. With its mature form, rich cultural heritage, solemn and quiet aesthetic connotation and powerful function, the Chinese classical poetry coheres and creates the spiritual quality of the Chinese and supports super-stable cultural structure. However, the Chinese modern poetry is showing a different kind of state, and it encounters a complex chaotic socio-cultural environment, where occurred a fierce battle between culture of origin and the west different cultures. An extremely complicated battle and integration between original perceptual and external ideologies gives birth to a new productive mechanism about new poetry and a new poetic tradition.It caused a significant shift in the socio--cultural ecology of literary evolution, and provided a space for modern Chinese poetry by newspapers, the rise of modern media and their powerful spreading function. In the meanwhile, with the becoming of modern Chinese intellectuals and fulfilling their enormous energies, a coming room for publishing the New Poetry founded, Lu Xun has a ground-breaking performance on the formation of modern Chinese poetry."Speaking to himself" and "Weeds" are personally exploring in the Chinese modern poetry discourse by Lu Xun. He creates a strong enough stand--alone art world, which is based on his understanding perfectly this modern poetic style and incredible grasp of the prose spirit.These two poetries match a certain consistency between the art philosophy and form structure. They embody the modern aesthetic consciousness, feelings, the way of imagination and inspiration. In these two texts of poetry, Lu Xun explores actively the ways how to create a rich quality of modern poetry in order to fit perfectly with the expression of the inner universe with the prose poem, and then makes the modern Chinese authentic speech come true. First of all, by highly private re-naming towards meta-poetic elements, reversing of classical poetic image or constructing a brand image, he rebuilds the mysterious relationship between humankind and the world. Secondly, the poet breaks conscious picture, seek to the inner universe of people and creates a subliminal text, where makes dreams, hallucinations, schizophrenia, died in survival as the main purpose, so that modern people's emotions, experiences can be more excellently expressed. Again, in the texts, Lu Xun creates the sophisticated modern "lyrical subject", giving up the style of hero writing, but turning to the true of human life, and measures extensive use of symbolism, metaphor, paradox and irony to show people's nightmare, sick, aging, decadent, frustration and a sense of wilderness. The negativity in human life is highlighted as the aesthetic content.In the text "Speaking to himself" and "Weeds", Lu Xun pays a high attention to voice, and deals with the voice for local conditions in place. With Soliloquy of life, "Speaking to himself " unfolds the complex inner world of the poet, and then constructs a writing posture to reveal a line of fragmented and mental visions. In the text "Weeds", the poet creates such a great "silent" world, in which the lyrical subjects speech only in meta-poetic elements'voices, or they speech only voices of their illness.While in a specific language environment, others have strong voices and speak eloquently, yet the lyrical subject is only a very weak speaker and his sound is full of interference noises and inconsistent loudness without a strong prop for confident identity. Accounting the voices of illness and the occurrence of the damaged, the poetry indicates the difficulty in modern human speak, shows modern people's repression and harm suffered, the deterioration of life itself and repair difficult, which strengthens the sense of modern life as well as the writer's meta-poetic voice. Setting clever "dramatic discourse" to insert the poet's own voice out of the text, they achieve multiply levels and the complexity of implication, so that the texts tend to multi-meaning, polyphonic, creating for few and presenting literary excellence.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lu Xun, Prose-Poetry, "Speaking to himself", "Weeds", Speaking voice
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