The Romanticism Study Of Dai Wangshu’s Poems

During the May Fourth Movement,the literary circle paid much attention to individual freedom and the humanistic spirit of subjective expression,which was highly compatible with the social reality and cultural needs at that time.It also has a certain relationship with the spread of Western romanticism.Around the 1930 s,under the interaction of enlightenment and salvation and revolutionary literary thoughts,the“individualism” emphasized by romanticism gradually disintegrated,and then merged into the new quality of reality,forming “revolutionary romanticism.” Individual romanticism emphasizes the life experience of the individual,while revolutionary romanticism focuses on the grand narrative of the nation in the era.Dai Wangshu embarked on the path of poetry creation when his individual romanticism was “unlucky”.Therefore,studying Dai Wangshu’s poems with romanticism can not only understand the process and reasons of his transformation from individual romance to revolutionary romance,but also help to understand the development and evolution of Chinese romantic literature.From the small ivory tower of melancholy and freedom to the bright and expansive torrent of times,Dai Wangshu has never concealed his romantic sentiment,which creation has always been based on “sincere feelings”.Romanticism,as an open aesthetic trend,emphasizes subjective ideals and aims to express oneself.“Emotion” is its core and its magic weapon for victory.The poetry of My Memory,Wangshu Grass and The Years of Disaster not only demonstrate Dai Wangshu’s subjective spirit and lyric expression,but also permeated the poetic character of self-transcendence of “the soul of the muse”.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,the main body of this thesis is composed of three chapters.The first chapter mainly focuses on the poems My Memory and Wangshu Grass as the main body,exploring Dai Wangshu’s individual romanticism.As the poet’s first collection of poems,My Memory expresses the melancholy feelings of the subject’s self and is the origin of his sentimental romantic poetry style.The following Wangshu Grass,with love and ideals as the main melody,subjective spirit freely,the romantic lyrical content has changed and evolved into melancholic romantic lyric.This chapter is divided into two sections,from poetic sentiment to poetic image,taking specific poems as examples to analyze in detail the characterization of individual romanticism in Dai Wangshu’s poems.The second chapter mainly takes the poetry collection The Years of Disaster as the research object to explore Dai Wangshu’s revolutionary romanticism.Based on the lyric content of poetry,this chapter divides “The Years of Disaster” into two sections: “Express romantic patriotism and affection” and “Into the revolutionary romantic poetry”.In the first section,Blessing of New Year’s day is a sign of the change of its poetic style.Before it is the lingering sound of loneliness,and then the national singing.The second section is the key section of this chapter,which refers to adapting to the needs of the times.Dai Wangshu’s poems integrate the two romantic aesthetic categories of “individual” and“revolution”,from three aspects of “passion shouting chapter of the era”,“the close integration of the individual and the era” and “the spiritual clogs of the era” to perform analysis.The third chapter explores the aesthetic significance of Dai Wangshu’s romantic poetry creation and transformation in the development history of modern Chinese poetry.The first section focuses on the aesthetic connotation of his poetic development,which is a comprehensive view from three aspects: the beauty of poetry image,the beauty of poetry sentiment,and the beauty of poetry context.The second section compares it with the four poets He Qifang,Ai Qing,Li Jinfa,and Mu Dan in the “romantic context” and “modern context”,from which we can see Dai Wangshu’s path of “harmony without difference”,highlighting its unique romantic creation characteristics and aesthetic significance.