Thetragedy Of Existence And The Meaning Of Death

Hai Zi is the unique spiritual individual in Chinese contemporary literature history, his suicide has caused discussions and controversies on the question about what a poet should do, as time went on, Hai Zi's poem and ideal about poetics has been more and more concerned. First, the present dissertation starts with the characteristics of the age Hai Zi lived in, tries to restore the special spiritual atmosphere in which the poems were created, combines Hai Zi's poetry creation and the unique cultural context of 1980s, reveals the barrenness of his age, and then, in the dualistic tension of spirit and material, analyses the survival condition of the poet in the destitute time.Second, based on the text of Hai Zi's poem, this paper explains the writings about the tragedy of the existence of human beings presented in his poems from the angle of ontology. According to his ideal about poetics, Hai Zi argued that poem should"testify the existence", should present the survival condition of human beings by trying to contact the subject. Hai Zi went straight to the root of tragedy of existence of human beings by writing miseries of agricultural nations. Hai Zi believed that desire and death are actual manipulators of the fate of human beings, human can not transcend the tragic fate of final extinction, and this idea was no better revealed than in the long poems"Sun·Earth"and"Sun·Poetic Drama".The admiration of and concern for death is an important theme in the Hai Zi's poems, the last chapter of this paper explains the philosophy about death contained in his poem. Hai Zi doubted the theory of samsara in eastern race, played up the ultimacy and inevitability of death in his poems. In the long poem"Sun·But Water·Water", the poet reveals the merciless of the death while it destroys the meanings of the existence of human beings, and tried to reconstruct the value of existence of human beings by life-affirming, but because death deconstructs meanings, the poet was deeply despaired. In"Sun·Decollation", Hai Zi created a headless warrior and introduced"Shiva"in Hindu Mythology, to complete the spiritual revenge on death by praising great devastating power. But the devastating power could not get the poet released from the nihility and absurdity of ultimate meaning, finally the poet rest the hope of rescuing human beings on the calling for divinity, in"Sun·Messiah".Hai Zi's poem glows with tragedy because of its metaphysical inquiry about existence and death of human beings. This is a breakthrough in Chinese contemporary poetry, and Hai Zi's poem will finally gain more and more attention and approval.