The impersonal proposition of poetry mainly includes three meanings.
First of all, judging from the relationship between the poet and the tradition, it is impossible for any poet to have all his meanings without the tradition of poetry.
The poet belongs to the tradition of poetry, and his works exist in the whole organic chain of poetry, even the most personal part of which contains traces of predecessors, who strongly show their immortality in his works.
However, the poet did not blindly follow the previous generation and stick to the traditional rules, but participated in the construction of the whole traditional order of poetry with his own works.
The concept of tradition understood by Eliot contains profound historical consciousness, that is, tradition includes not only the past, but also the existence of the past.
Poets should look at tradition from the perspective of modern people, understand and explain the modern significance of tradition, and combine the permanence and modernity of tradition. When a poet writes, he not only has the background of his own time.
Moreover, we should feel the coexistence of the whole literature of Europe and our own country since Homer, which has formed a synchronous situation, so that the poet can be keenly aware of his position in historical time and his relationship with tradition and modernity.
In this way, the poet's writing is no longer a purely personal act, but has a universal traditional significance.
Therefore, the importance of a poet and our criticism of him are actually discussing the relationship between him and previous poets and his works. It is meaningless to evaluate him and his works alone or in isolation.
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