Symbolists pay attention to describing personal phantoms and inner feelings, and rarely involve a wide range of social themes; In terms of artistic methods, it denies vague rhetoric and blunt preaching, and advocates using textured images and hints, contrasts, contrasts and associations to create. Besides, symbolism pays special attention to musicality and rhythm.
The achievement of symbolism literature in the field of poetry is the highest. The theory and creation of American poet Allan Poe had a great influence on the formation of French symbolism. His Principles of Poetry Creation advocates the poetic viewpoint of anti-nature and anti-preaching, and also emphasizes formal beauty, suggestibility and musicality, which is the theoretical beginning of symbolism. The Flower of Evil, a collection of poems by French poet Charles Baudelaire, is the first poem with symbolic significance.
Paul verlaine, a famous French poet in the 65438+ 70' s and 80' s, advocated that poetry should have musicality first, which is fluid, hazy and clear. The choice of words requires the combination of fuzziness and accuracy; Color halo, not color; Don't use aphorisms and gags. His representative works include Three Years Later, Bai Yue and Prison.
Artur Rambo is one of the more radical symbolist poets in France. He brought surrealism to French symbolism literature, and his poems are famous for their gorgeous colors. His masterpieces include Drunk Boat, Vowel and A Season in Hell. Rambo became the originator of surrealist literature.
Stephen Malarme, known as "the symbol of symbolism", is a key figure in the development of symbolism. He was the first poet to systematize the symbolism theory. Malamei's Swan, Herod the King and Afternoon of the Faun are his representative works. Paul valery's works include Young Goddess of Life, Footsteps, Pomegranate, Fengling, Graveyard by the Sea, etc. Austrian Lai Na Maria Rilke is a representative of symbolism in German literature. His works, including Leopard, Sonnet to Orville and Elegy of Duinau, have established Rilke as a master of modern poetry. His style is obscure, which contains many existential views, systematic and abstract symbolic poems. The representatives of symbolism are mainly William Butler Yeats and T S Eliot. Ye Zhi's works include Odyssey, Sailing to Byzantium, Rita and Swan, Among Schoolchildren, and the theoretical work Second Sight. Eliot is a representative figure of English symbolism poetry. His masterpieces include The Waste Land and Quartet.