Analysis Of The Inheritance And Innovation Of Montale’s Poetries Of Female Figures In The Medieval Poetry

Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) was one of the greatest Italian poets of the twentieth century and the most famous Italian contemporary poet in China. He was known for his Nobel Prize in Literature. In more than 50 years of his creative writing career, Montale wrote a total of six poems, in which three types of female figures - Arletta, Clizia and Mosca to be the most classic.In Western poetry creation, female figures have always been an indispensable part in it.In the late 11th century, it was France where emerged the "knight literature",among which the poetry literature - knight lyric poetry can be seen as the source of Western poetry,since then, female figures have become the poetry of classical lyrical objects and are widely circulated. In this circumstance, this paper focuses on the analysis of female figures from Montale’s writing,relating the poet’s real life and its background, analyzing the source of female figures in Montale’s Poems as well as their symbolic meanings.As the first female figure, Clizia assumes a role like "visiting angel",which has a similar meaning with Dante’s Beatrice; the second female figure Arletta appears as a young girl in the poems, it symbolizes the youth of the poet as well as Montale’s willing to return to the past; the third and the last female figure turns out to be Mosca, of whom was Montale’s wife in the real life. Meanwhile, it also makes a comparisom with Dante’s classic female figure -Beatrice, so well as Giacomo Leopardi’s female figure - Silvia,trying to explore the inheritance and innovation of the female figures in Montale’s poems and explore the changes of Montale’s aesthetic spirit and poetic genre from the changes of Montale’s three types of female images.