A Case Study On Artistic Conception Similarities Between Chinese And English Poetry

Poetry is the crystallization and the highest embodiment of a country andnational culture; it is the precipitation of history and the era. Chinese and Englishpoetry embodies the comprehensive achievement of different cultural, artisticand aesthetic; they have differences in many aspects such as the style, structureand content. However, contrastive study, not only should have focused on findingout difference from the same things, but also should pay attention to findingcommon ground through different things. Finding differences in very similarresearch objects is important; identifying the commonalities in different researchobjects is also meaningful.After investigation the author concluded that there are few studies on thecreation similarities of the Chinese and English poems at present, and mostly arefocus on the syntactic structure and different translation versions. This thesis hasquestions to deal with as follows:(1) Under the background of the huge difference in thinking mode and culturebetween Chinese and Western countries, whether there may be similarity inaspects such as artistic technique, writing skill, creativity and creatingconception?(2) If the similarity exists, then whether the cultural similarities and differences have influence on it or not?This paper chose several sections of Chinese and English poetry which createdin different periods. The author attempts to find out the common rules and thesimilar techniques of expression on artistic beauty creation in different styles ofChinese and Western poetry by contrastive analysis. The thesis elaborated theargument of the author from four angles about the similarities on artisticconception of Chinese-English poem. The author reviewed the culturalbackground of Chinese and Western country at the beginning, and selectedseveral poetics which created in different cultural background as examples to dothe analysis in the following.Research found that there are striking similarities between Chinese andEnglish poems on their artistic conception and creation technique. Namely, bothof Chinese and English poets:â‘ use the same writing skill of turning abstractto real and utilizing verbs to depict impalpable object.â‘¡strengthen the artisticappeal with the striking contrast.â‘¢use movements to write calm scene andexpress dynamic scenery by describing static.â‘£humanize the substance anddescribe human as objects. The demonstration of the whole thesis is fulfilledwith the dialectical theory of antinomy and unification. Further confirmed thateven in different cultural background, Chinese and English poetry are roughlythe same on their artistic conception. The thesis will also enrich the theory ofwestern culture comparative research from the angle of aesthetics.This thesis aims to help English learners to enjoy the content of Chinese and English poetry and improve their interest and understanding of western culture.Poetry, as a cultural manifestation, plays a decisive role in Sino-Western culturalexchanges. The case study on similarities between creating techniques ofChinese and English poetry, not only reflects the commonality of Chinese andWestern culture, but also search out the common literary composing rules.Simultaneously, this study has certain help on EFL teaching: For our ChineseEnglish learners, it is always a big problem on understanding of English poetry.By learning the similarities between Chinese and English poetry, the learners cancombine their knowledge of Chinese poems to get a better understanding onEnglish poems. It will greatly improve their interest on English literature. It alsogives the key to open the door of understanding western culture background, soas to promote the exchange of Chinese and Western culture.Although the thesis intends to give several examples to show the detailsimilarities between Chinese and English poetry, the poetry selection wascompleted by the author independently. To some extent, there is certainsubjectivity on the selection of the original poems and the analysis of the poetrycreation techniques. Because time is limited, the quantity of selected poems asillustration is also limited; the analysis of this article may not deep and completeenough. If more poems have been selected to carry on the contrastive analysis,the results of the research will be more accurate and helpful.