In less than three months, Li Jinfa wrote his second book of poetry, Dining Car and Bad Years. At this time, on the one hand, he deeply studied Schopenhauer's philosophy, and on the other hand, after reading the works of Goethe and others, his poetic style changed and he lost some mystery. Six months later, Li Jinfa wrote the third book of poetry, Song of Happiness. Judging from the inscription and translation of this collection of poems, there are works by German romantic writers such as Goethe and Heine, French Hugo and chateaubriand. It can be seen that the tendency of Li Jinfa's three poems is more and more obvious: romantic sentimentality permeates under the overall characteristics of symbols. Although Li Jinfa's influence is complicated, the most prominent thing in his poems is the expression of death and ugliness and the smoke of despair, depression and sadness that always hangs over his head.
Li Jinfa's two poems have been criticized by people: "If leaves splash/blood stains our feet,//life is a smile on the lips of death." In Li Jinfa's view, "death" is the ultimate destination of mankind, and it is not terrible. "Death! As beautiful as spring, as loyal as season. /If you try to escape,/Oh, there's no need to cry in horror. /He still loves us warmly after all. " ("Death") The terrible thing is that it actually exists. De geiger believes that death can "free oneself from ordinary people" and make people get rid of anxiety and sinking troubles at one time. Secular life brings people endless depression, anxiety and disgust, which makes people have a strong sense of smallness, loneliness, weakness and fear. (27) It creates a universal "neurotic personality". How to eliminate these basic factors? Li Jinfa believes that only death. Here, we find the root cause of the poet's praise of death, which lies in the complete despair of the ugly social reality, or that the most powerful curse of existence is completed by death.
Li Jinfa's reference to French symbolism poetry is not technical, but in his bones. This is manifested in the isomorphic relationship between his poems and Baudelaire's poems. In Li Jinfa's poems, some suggest the nothingness of life (such as pity for hope), some suggest the wandering of the soul (in the car in Lyon), some praise death to complete the most powerful curse of survival (life), and some suggest that the soul of future generations is overwhelmed (unfortunate) after the death of God.
There are many differences between Li Jinfa's poems and Baudelaire's poems in expressing the theme of death, but the similarities between Shi Li's poems and Bo Shi's poems are the main ones. In terms of the theme and object of poetry, Baudelaire highlighted three themes in Flowers of Evil: death, dreams and love. So do Li Jinfa's three poems.
There is little aesthetic psychology of ugliness and beauty in traditional China's poems. Our nation affirms the value of "life" and has the cultural characteristics of "happiness in poverty" and "contentment in happiness", which weakens and paralyzes the bitterness, sadness, ugliness and ill feelings of intellectuals. On the level of artistic expression, they have created the psychology of not complaining about suffering, not talking about poverty, being ashamed to talk about suffering and being ashamed to talk about poverty. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the thought of "human consciousness" had an influence on this kind of values, but it failed to become the main force dominating China people's souls. The strong desire and belief in life, life and life highlights the significance and value of individual existence, and then affirms the value of individual existence in the form of negation. This is the modern consciousness of modern people or modern people. The significance of finding ugly beauty in tragic smile lies in facing up to the bitterness caused by the spiritual life gap, life gap and fate gap. Writing "ugly and beautiful" works should have three levels: (1) "ugly situation" in life; (2) Psychological ugliness; (3) The expressive image of the poet. "Ugliness" is transformed into strong ugliness in subjective psychology, but the formation of artistic expression images needs specific cultural psychology. Li Jinfa's world-weariness, being far away from the crowd, decadence and magic thoughts formed in Paris are mainly the result of the influence of foreign evil flowers, not from nationalities and traditions. For example, Li Jinfa and Baudelaire show striking similarities in praise of "death" and disgust of "life". They are all infected with the "disease of the century", and they all have one morbid "evil" flower in their hearts. Their themes and even the objects they write are very similar. They took an inexplicable interest in stillbirth.
Dreams and love are also safe havens for symbolists to escape the pain of "life". Secular life makes people have endless troubles, and death smiles at people everywhere. Of course, death is a relief from the troubles of life. In the eyes of symbolist poets, there are dreams and love besides death. Many of Li Jinfa's poems are about his pursuit of love till death do us part, such as If I die. This poem assumes that he is dead, and his ghost approaches his lover at night, gives him a kiss and caresses, and shows that his love will "rule" his lover's whole youth and life. There are two kinds of fantasy worlds: one is heaven and the other is dream. The happy people who sing for happiness belong to the former, while the illusion of a light rain and a cold night belongs to the latter.