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A Comparative Study of Shao Xunmei's Poetry

Sung, Ho Yeon
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392984862

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2003, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, East Asian Languages and Literatures.
Shao Xunmei has been marginalized in the study of modern Chinese poetry because he established his own poetic world seething with decadence and replete with hedonism. To give a fuller representation of the history of modern Chinese poetry, it is important to elucidate the poetic world of understudied poets such as Shao Xunmei. Shao's collection of essays, Fire and Flesh and the essay entitled "The General Survey of Modern American Circle of Poetry" form the basis of Shao's poetics in which he shows his extensive knowledge of various foreign poetry styles. This extensive knowledge allowed him to create his own unique style. Shao Xunmei's own poetics is embodied in his preface to his collection of poems, Twenty-Five Poems. The influence of foreign poetics and his own knowledge of poetry are crystallized, and Shao makes several points in this preface. Shao highlights the "best order" the most because it denotes the achievement of a perfect union between the content and the form, blending traditional Chinese poetics with foreign poetics. Shao asserted that the subject and the language are inclined to change according to changes of the epoch with the advent of modern civilization. As a result, Shao further believed that a poet should participate in reforming mankind by portraying the new epoch with new languages. Shao's poetics can be represented by three of his individualistic collections of poems: Heaven and May, Flower-like Evil, and Twenty Five Poems. From the works of these three collections of poems, it is possible to draw three underlying themes concerning his views on poet, decadent love and Christianity. Shao stressed the duty of a poet in the new epoch in his poetics. Secondly, Shao also made a noteworthy point on the coexistence of the contrasting images of decadence and Christianity, each representing the terrestrial and the celestial world respectively. Even though Shao creates unique poetic world with exceptional images in his poem, Shao have formalist attitude in common with other formalist poets. Shao makes attempt to realize his form-oriented poetics by creating diverse forms ranging from sonnet to blank verse.
Kirk Denton (Advisor)
William Tyler (Committee Member)
94 p.
Asian Literature

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  • Sung, H. Y. (2003). A Comparative Study of Shao Xunmei's Poetry [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392984862

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sung, Ho. A Comparative Study of Shao Xunmei's Poetry. 2003. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392984862.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sung, Ho. "A Comparative Study of Shao Xunmei's Poetry." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392984862

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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