Ekphrasis in Robert Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi”

As an ekphrastic poem re-created from the painting Coronation of the Virgin,“Fra Lippo Lippi”lacks adequate scrutiny from the perspective of interart poetics.With regards to the core concept of ekphrasis,this paper makes an in-depth analysis of the features and functions of ekphrasis in the poem.The former lie in the poet’s identification with the painter,and his imaginative supplementation in“the verbal representation of visual representation”.The latter are embodied in the revelation of the invisible in the painting,namely,the desires and value of human beings,as well as the power of beauty and truth.Browning enriches the poem with both philosophical and artistic contemplation,thus strongly conveying the thematic implications of“know thyself”and the persistent pursuit of beauty and truth.It is hoped that this study can shed some light on the studies of Robert Browning and the poem itself,and contribute to the development of the interart poetics.

The Impersonal Theory of Poetry in “Tradition and the Individual Talent” by TS Eliot

Eliot,an important poet,playwright,and literary critic of the nineteenth century in the United States,was the founder of Western modernism.He pioneered the modern poetic criticism.His practice of modernist poetry is the transition from traditionalist poetics to modernist poetics in the 20th century.His famous poetics theory declaration“Tradition and the Individual Talent”is an immortal classic in the field of poetics theory,in which he proposed the concept of“Traditional,”the theory of“Impersonal”poetry,“Objective Correlative,”and so on.All had a profound influence on the 20th-century poetry creation.This paper aims to analyze and discuss the important“Impersonal”theory from the three aspects of its connotation,the relationship between“Personality”and its intertextuality with New Criticism,so as to further understand Eliot’s poetic concepts.

On Chengzhai Poetic Style and Shu Culture

Yang Wanli,a renowned poet of the Southern Song Dynasty(1127-1279 AD),has left an indelible mark on the history of Chinese literature with his unique artistic style.He pioneered the Chengzhai Poetic Style,a unique approach characterized by simplicity,naturalness,freshness,and liveliness in poetic creation.This style marked a turning point in the development of Song poetry and exerted a profound influence on the subsequent trends of Song poetry.As such,he was hailed as a“Leader in Poetry”by his contemporaries.The Chengzhai Poetic Style was gradually formed during Yang’s creation course,under the influence of several important factors,including the Bashu culture and its aesthetic taste represented by Zhang Jun and Zhang Shi,the Zen philosophy that emphasizes liveliness prevailing in the Shu area,and the view that the“Chinese Yi-ology has its roots in the Shu area.”Meanwhile,in the Collected Works of Chengzhai(Chengzhai Ji),there are many poems and essays about the Bashu area,which have provided valuable feedback to the Bashu literature and enriched its content.

On the Significance of Poetry in ChatGPT Era

ChatGPT is essentially a technical tool.However,unlike the previous technical tools,it is more anthropomorphic and can be taken as another deepening of application of digital technology in human life.Its advantages are beyond all doubt.Its deeper limitation and possible harm lie in that it will alienate natural people’s thinking and psychology of receiving world information,to certain extent.To overcome the new split between rationality and sensibility brought by ChatGPT,we need stronger and more independent natural creativity of human beings,and poetry is the best way to cultivate this creativity of human beings.There are three ways for poetic thinking to strengthen human creativity:creatively understand and use content of the dialogue with ChatGPT with poetic thinking;integrate poetic thinking and machine thinking;have to create a new way of thinking in the era of ChatGPT,by transcending machine thinking through poetic thinking.

Thinking on the Artistic Conception Creation of Plant Landscaping Design in Chinese Style Garden

In modern Chinese style garden, the designer could express the emotions in garden creation to produce artistic conception with landscape plants, which could make the sightseers desire to integrate with the nature and led to sympathizing with the concept, thereby motivating and arousing people＇s emotion to return to and close to nature. Through the 6 specific characteristics of ＂shape, color, aroma, shadow, sound and art＂ of landscape plants, some ways to build artistic conception in Chinese style garden were introduced in this study to provide references for the creation of artistic conception creation through senses in the future landscaping design.

Artistic Classical Chinese Gardens and Construction of Poetic Images in Modern Landscape

With regard to the artistic features of classical Chinese gardens,its ubiquitous poetic scenery is represented through the aspects of spatial sequence,landscape layout,hill piling and waterways dredging,plant configuration,architecture creation as well as various elements in classical garden.Emphasis is given to the close relationship between it and the traditional Chinese poetry and drawing,as it is resulted from the cultural feature of artistic classical garden and as art-and conception-centered as poetry and drawing.The connotation of conception is also analyzed,that is,inter-dependence,imaginary-real design,and correlation.Moreover,reality-and conception-centered methods in classical Chinese gardens are also introduced along with other conception creating methods such as configuration,view borrowing,empathy and symbolism.On this basis,discussion about key elements in conception creation in modern landscape design is carried out while emphasizing the understanding of environment,practice,experience,and method,so as to demonstrate the sense of place and create spatial artistic beauty through wider means.

从《艺术作品的本源》管窥海德格尔后期艺术思想

"诗意栖居"是海德格尔后期哲学思想的主旋律,而《艺术作品的本源》则从文艺美学的角度对其做出深度的呼应。通过文本分析,我们认为后期海德格尔建构了"诗艺一体"的存在主义艺术观;同时,语言符号的神圣性在他的艺术阐释语境中复归并承担起构建"存在之家"的"诗话"功能。

生命的诗学——从《水仙》看华兹华斯自然观及其诗学理念

威廉.华兹华斯是英国19世纪浪漫主义诗人,他崇尚自然,并以其清新、质朴、自然的语言开创了一个崭新的诗歌时代,冲破了18世纪古典主义用诗歌语言描写贵族生活的桎梏。其作品《水仙》通过描写大自然里的风光及诗人在自然风光里的感受,充分表达了他的自然观及其诗学理念:以人为本,返朴归真,回归自然,才能天人合一,净化情感,提高人性,达到和谐。

Decoding the Homosexuality of Western Culture in Archetypal Approach

Homosexuality is a special part of western gender studies, which has been studied by western intellectual ever since it was born. Owing to the different attitudes of various cultures in different spatial-times, it was more depressed rather than accepted, but as an objective being in histor）; it shows itself a static state accompanying the whole human history. Today homosexuality has been one of the mainstreams in western intellectual movement and it is vitally important for us to give it a reasonable, precise definition in order to build up a harmonious society. This article tries to break through the bondage of material determinism and economical monism. It will be guided by the principle to delve into the human sub-consciousness to find the same essence between homosexuality and heterosexuality, to trace back to the origin of homosexuality in archetypal approach in order to reveal the anxiety of the legality of human existence and its poetic construction, which is hidden behind the cultural phenomenon.

Petersburg＇s religious myths in Dostoevsky＇s Crime and punishment

Many Russian scholars have expounded Dostoevsky＇s religious outlooks, which are embodied in Petersburg＇s religious myths. Dostoevsky describes the fantasy of Petersburg in the hands of the devil, and he also adds a lot of mythological colors in his diction. This article expounds the above idea from the angles of both mythological atmosnhere and mythological poetics.

The Manipulation of Power Discourse on Religious Translation Both in the West and in China

As a cross-lingual, cross-cultural, cross-time-and-space communication, religious translation has inevitably been stamped, from the very beginning, with the brand of ideology and has, more or less, been restrained by political factors there and then. The translated version, very often, cannot truly mirror the essence of the source text mainly because translation is manipulated by the power discourse in the target culture.

On Sound Symbolism in Alfred Tennyson's Poems: A Phonological Study of English Poetry

Generally, linguists categorize sound symbolism into two major types: direct sound symbolism and synesthetic sound symbolism. In English literature, Alfred Tennyson is a great Victorian poet adept in sensitive uses of the musical qualities of words to emphasize his poetic meanings and sensations. By analyzing his two famous short poems("The Eagle" and "Break, Break, Break") from a phonological perspective, this thesis intends to probe into how sound symbolism, especially the synesthetic sound symbolism, is applied to express his poetic emotions.

On Montrose's Perception of New Historicism

Louis Adrian Montrose has addressed literary,historical,and theoretical topics and issues concerned with New Historicism.He elegantly demonstrated how language and literary imagination shape cultural value;belief,and understanding;social distinction and interaction;and political control and contestation,thus significantly shaped contemporary studies of poetics and politics of culture.He refuted the oversimplified polarization of language and society of J.Hillis Miller and Edward Pechter's misunderstandings about "New Historicism" and stated his own understanding and expectations of New Historicism.From a detailed analysis of his ideas,the author points out the weakness in his arguments and advises researchers in this field to dialectically view the school of New Historicism.

Registers Study and Poetic Language

Poetic language is distinguished from other roles of language by its creativity in linguistic uses,among which register deviation and register mixing are the most conspicuous.A register study of poetic works is therefore beneficial to our understanding of the works in case.The present thesis adopts a Hallidayian Functional approach to analyze two short poems,illustrating this feature of poetic language and demonstrating a register study in a poetic context.

语篇衔接之于诗歌主题的表达--对乔治·赫伯特诗作《美德》的文体学分析(英文)

George Herbert's poem,"Virtue",conveys to us a theme that all material things in this world,however shiny they are on the outside,are flashy on the inside;only the spiritual sublime virtues that human beings possess remain fresh forever.Linguistically speaking,the discourse cohesion of this poem contributes to the expression of the theme of it.Based on the stylistic analysis,this paper argues that the expression of the poetic theme is realized through the overall layout of cohesion of this poem,manifested in rhyme scheme,lexicon,structure and logic.

Transformative Learning in Language Arts as a Method of Guidance and Counseling

Our voluntary project ran in different groups of adults （healthy, depressed, schizophrenic, and clients with anxiety disorders）. The study is based on analysis of personal counseling experience, where literature was used as a tool to disclose client＇s personal meanings. During our sessions, clients were observed phenomenologically, and their speach was written down. Reflecting on the qualitative data of transformative learning in language arts, we developed techniques for facilitation and disclosure of personal meanings. Grounded theory was used for data generalization： Personal educational insights and its comparison with other researchers＇ theoretical insights were the basis to develop the methodical system for psychological guidance and counseling and to explain it. We revealed that focus on personally important meanings during discussion after literature reading has influence on the mental state of personality and deepens the interactions with the literature art, so we suggest a spiral model to explain the methodical system of our method. Transformative learning in language arts as a method of guidance and counseling can be understood as spiritual motion by spirale. It has three levels： （1） art level （interaction with the literature）; （2） psychology level （counseling）; and （3） art level （interaction with the same peace of literature as in the beginning of the session, poetic summary of the session）. Levels （1） and （3） mean interaction with literature art, but at the third level, this interaction has new quality, because personality has better perception of Self and more ability to connect personal meanings and literature wisdom. At the first level, we have direction from literature to Personality. At the third level, we have direction from the Self （Speaking from Within） to literature. Disclosure of personally important meanings is a key to self-understanding and poetical thinking; our developed methodical system reduces emotional tension and strengthens interconnectedness between inner and outer world and improves poetical understanding. In this paper, the methodical system of transformative learning and guidance is discussed.

Noun-Inspiring Theme in Poetic Translation—On Noun Translation Governed by Theme of Classical Chinese Poetry

The presence of poetic noun is very common in classical Chinese poetry. And the absence of preposition and conjunction leading to noun juxtaposition is one of the poetic aesthetic features. At present, most researches of poetic translatio on n base individual impression and perception, fail to comprehend the nouns of source text in categorization, and critical analysis on the translated nouns is not interpretable and verifiable. This paper, taking a perspective of poetic theme relevance, categorizes the poetic noun from the indicative, descriptive and symbolic dimensions, proposes a poetic translation strategy called"aesthetic reproduction of poetic theme", and proves its necessity and rationality.

No Self——An Interpretation of Gary Snyder's Poem From A Chinese Perspective

Gary Snyder applies Zen philosophy and Tang nature poetics to his Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout.His diction and use of sounds create a calm context for a journey to the spiritual condition of no self:from the speaker’s self within the landscape to renunciation of his social identity,then to the unity between his self and nature.Thus Snyder shows how the speaker expands his self through sympathy with nature and searches for the ultimate truth.

A Formalistic Analysis of Poe's Poem-"Annabel Lee"

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few writers in the history of American literature who develops not only good novels and poems but also excellent critic theories.In Poe's criterion,the poem should be short,and produce a feeling of beauty in the reader."Annabel Lee" is a perfect illustration of Poe's poetic theories.The essay analyzes the poem in detail from the formalistic point of view.

An Eternal Quest for Poetic Dwelling: A Comparative Study of the Eco-Ethic Thoughts in Silent Spring and Wolf Totem

This thesis is aimed at conducting a comparative study of the ecoethic thoughts in Silent Spring and Wolf Totem. It points out that Carson and Jiang's eco-ethics are relatively complete, ideal and objective. Moreover, the most shining features are that they not only unfold the grim fact of ecological crisis before the public, but also instil confidence and hope in each and every reader.