A Study On The Characteristic Of Poetry In Katherine Mansfield’s Fictions

Katherine Mansfield, who was born in New Zealand, is regarded as one of the greatest short story writers in the world. Instead of emphasizing the setting of plot and characters, her works mainly reflected the loneliness and disillusion of people in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Katherine learned the way in which poetry express, especially symbolic poetry when creating her own works, and thus earned her novels the name "poetic novel". The using of modernism in Katherine Mansfield’s novel is also a striking feature, which also made them the Pearl of the Modernist Literature.The appearance of Katherine Mansfield’s poetic novel was not by chance. It’s the result of literature form evolvement and affected by times and society as well. Poetry was the earliest form of literature. When novels are separated from poetry, they altered in both form and content, which differed from poetry. With novels stepping to a certain stage, especially when it was restricted by the realism, it became possible that novels backtracked to a more concise narration and sad expression of feelings. In the meantime, as industrialization processes speeded up, people felt hollow in mind, which brought to them the emotion of loneliness and disillusion, thus, leading to new forms of literature. While, objectively, Katherine Mansfield’s "poetic novel" was due to her high poetic accomplishment and passion for poetry.In her stories, there are many lyrical ways of expression similar to symbolic poetry. Katherine Mansfield employed repetition,change,cosmic synchronization and coordination to convey real emotion of the characters and thus sticking to its theme. The effect of poetry on Katherine Mansfield’s novel was also reflected in the featuring of the characters, including the poetic expression of implication and emotion. This helps to express the truest feeling and is of great significance to reveal people’s psychological conditions of that time. Katherine Mansfield learned from the techiques of poetrv. Facine the Indfference of the world, "poetic novel" attempted to review the past by memories and hoped to search for a better life. She used symbolism and depicted and atmosphere with more artificial emotion. Katherine Mansfield’s application of methods in expressing feeling to poetry indicates that modern literature pursued expressing the inner world of characters. Katherine Mansfield’s novel is of great modern significance.