19 12 was admitted to Tsinghua University to study in the United States. 19 16 began to publish a series of reading notes in Tsinghua Weekly. 1in March, 925, I wrote Song of Seven Sons while studying in the United States. 1928 65438+ 10 published the second book of poetry, Dead Water.
Wen Yiduo's understanding of life has the duality of "freedom" and "moderation".
When the expression of life is irrational and the mind is close, his poetics is close to romanticism and modernism.
When the expression of life tends to be rational and realistic, his poetics begins to turn to classicism and realism.
From paying attention to falsehood to pursuing the true meaning of life, from opposing the interference of social problems to emphasizing that poetry is the product of society, from pursuing pure poetry to flaunting popularity, the internal contradiction of his poetic thought is only the different manifestations of his free nature and restrained will in different periods. Wen Yiduo's poetics embodies the poetic fusion of cultural modernity and aesthetic modernity.
The "culture" in Wen Yiduo's poetics is a whole culture, a cultural thinking with distinct dominant tendency, multi-dimensional and multi-faceted, a cultural thinking that casts personality spirit and returns to the true state of poetry; "
Aesthetics is a return to the original context of culture and literary theory. Wen Yiduo's poetics embodies the characteristics of three major changes in western formal aesthetics, artistic anthropology and historical poetics in the early 20th century, and is a pioneer in the modernization of China's poetics.
In Wen Yiduo's poetic concept, the profound China cultural tradition has actually formed a relatively stable core. His advocacy of the "three beauties" of new poetry is the development of traditional poetic theory in the aesthetic direction.