Study Of Schlegel’s Romantic Poetics Theory

At the end of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century,the romantic movement was very powerful.To study romanticism,we must pay attention to Germany.Germany is the hometown of romanticism.Romanticism is the most characteristic here.The early German Romanticism,also known as the Jena School,refers to Jena as the center,the Schlegel brothers,Schleiermacher,Novalis,etc.as the representative figures,and the "The Temple of Athena" as the main publication.Romantic school.As the earliest practitioners of romanticism,Jena members made great contributions to the development of German romantic theory and practice.Among them,Schlegel’s contribution is most prominent.As a "legislator" of German Romanticism,Schlegel developed many philosophical and aesthetic programs for the romantic school,which had a profound influence on the romantic movement and its subsequent literary movement.Studying Schlegel’s thoughts also helps us to see the whole thing and see the whole German romantic movement from his theory.E.Schlegel’s life has experienced many major events,such as the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars,the restoration of the feudal dynasty,the rise of German classical philosophy,the rise and fall of romanticism,and he himself also experienced a change from the Protestant Reformed Catholic faith.Therefore,his thoughts have undergone various changes and even contradictory points.This has caused certain difficulties for future generations to study.However,it also has a unique attraction that attracts us to find out.This article starts from F.Schlegel’s theory,tries to sort out the process of change of his thoughts before and after,and takes his theory as the starting point to study the whole German romantic movement.A kind of literary movement,the production of a literary theory is bound to be closely related to the historical environment at that time,and will also be influenced by the philosophy and literary creation of that era.The first chapter starts from this angle and discusses the background of the Schlegel theory.The first section explores its historical background,including the unrealized reality in Germany,the great differencesbetween Germany and France after the French Revolution,and the reflection of the German literary world on the French Revolution.The second section explores the theoretical basis,mainly pointing out the influence of Fichte’s knowledge and Schelling’s natural philosophy.The third section discusses the influence of literary trends of thought,mainly the arrogance and suddenness movement and the influence of Goethe and Schiller.Friedrich Schlegels first thought about art thinking and proposed that art thinking should be changed from rational thinking to poetic thinking.The first chapter of the second chapter points out the difference between poetic thinking and rational thinking,and reveals the connotation of poetic thinking through this way of comparison.The second section discusses the divine characteristics of this poetic thinking.The third section discusses the realization form of poetic thinking.This realization not only manifests itself in specific literary works,but also manifests itself as a poetic life through poetic thinking.Friedrich Schlegel also established new aesthetic standards for romantic poetry.The third chapter discusses the unique connotation of ontology of romantic poetry in his unique romantic aesthetic system.The first section points out the infinity of romantic poetry through the analysis of Schlegel’s personal ideological transition.The second section points out that romantic poetry is a progressive summary poem.The third section illustrates the freedom of romantic poetry by explaining the special form of romantic criticism,namely fragmentation.The fourth chapter starts from the concrete literary practice and points out Schlegel’s artistic creation ideas.The first section discusses the creation principle of romantic poetry-irony.The second section discusses the creative power of romantic poetry-imagination.The third section discusses the unique genre of romantic poetry-the novel.The fourth section discusses the unique perspective of romantic poetry,especially Schlegel and others’ strong interest in Indian culture.