| In the early1940s, as "China’s most outstanding lyrical poet", Feng Zhi has published a book using the sonnet form creation of poetry, called The Collection of Sonnets. Both in Feng Zhi’s personal poetry creative career, and compared with many poets at the same time, this collection of poems is different. The main reason is that western culture resources he had made a significant impression. Trace Feng Zhi’s poetry writing course, after the Traveling North, Feng Zhi fall into the dual crisis of the spirit and the creation, five years experience in Germany and extensive contacts of German literature, making the sonnets show a completely different poetic character and artistic style. Throughout the sonnets, there is no difficulty to find the profound thinking, such as the situation of human survival. The first is the existence of individual awareness and understanding, people should be independently assume their survival, but also share with each other, to expand and deepen the life of the individual. This is mainly derives from the concept of existentialist philosopher Gerkegaard and Jaspers; The second is that Feng Zhi’s attitude towards death is ifferent from the traditional Chinese concept of death, but it is very similar to the concept of the existentialism’s "Facing Death", especially similar to the concept of Rilke. Feng Zhi’s construction of existence awareness makes the sonnets become a combination of poetry and thought, obtained a transcendent poetic character, which is Chinese poetry has always been lacking. As for the art of poetry features, The collection of Sonnets shows a strong modernism poetry style, which directly benefits from Rilke and Goethe’s artistic resources. Finally, the creative transformation of sonnets is also a highlight. |
