Analysis:
Wen Yiduo is an intellectual with national bourgeois political inclination. His life can be roughly divided into two periods before and after the Anti-Japanese War (1943-1944). Wen Yiduo is a liberal or a democratic individualist, as * * * said. Generally speaking, his early thoughts belong to the category of liberal world outlook and literary view, but there is a sincere "patriotism" that is absolutely different from the right-wing bourgeois intellectuals at that time. Wen Yiduo made great progress in his later period. Politically and ideologically, he became the left wing of liberal intellectuals in Kuomintang-controlled areas at that time. He was a strong democratic fighter and showed a positive trend of moving closer to * * * *. The development clues of his world outlook and literary view are: from liberal patriotism to patriotism supporting the new-democratic revolution led by * * * *; From an aesthete who can't forget the dark reality to advocating literature and art to serve democracy. This view of the author shows a new cognitive trend, which corrects Wen Yiduo's past ideological development research, which was too obsessed with abstract patriotism and "starting with anger", and replaces it with a comprehensive study of political thought, literary thought and academic thought, in order to reply to Zhu Ziqing's understanding that Wen Yiduo was a poet, scholar and democratic fighter all his life at a higher level.
The development of Wen Yiduo's aesthetic thought can be divided into three periods: before, during and after. Before and after studying in the United States in July, 1922. The aesthetic thought of this period is close to the simple materialistic aesthetic view and tends to social utilitarianism. From the middle period of 1922 to 193 1, Wen Yiduo has obvious aestheticism tendency on abstract theoretical issues such as the essential characteristics of beauty, the ideal of beauty and aesthetic analysis. But he also emphasized the relationship between art and life, art and politics, and his poetry creation theory and practice tended to materialistic aesthetics. There are obvious sharp contradictions in Wen Yiduo's aesthetic thought in the middle period. Yu Wen's dichotomy (pre-,mid-and late-period) can highlight the profound contradiction and personality characteristics of Wen Yiduo's aesthetic thought development more than the previous dichotomy (pre-and late-period). The uniqueness in the process of ideological development and faltering are the * * * commonness of outstanding thinkers and writers in modern China, and the task of academic research is to constantly and fully reveal and explain this * * * commonness and "individuality".