A Comparison of Empathy between English and Chinese Poetry

Since ancient times, literati and poets have often endowed natural scenery with human action character, life and thoughts and feelings in their poetry creation, so that natural scenery can reflect the beauty of human and social life. This is what aesthetics calls "empathy" in poetry creation.

Empathy can be seen everywhere in poetry, especially in China's classical poems. From China's earliest poetry collection "The Book of Songs", we can appreciate the extremely rich and perfect "empathetic" poems that can be seen everywhere in China's ancient poems. For example, "government officials heard about this change and came back on vacation temporarily. In less than twenty-three miles, kurama's sorrow was destroyed (Peacock flies southeast), The horse lingers, but the car doesn't turn (Poem of Sorrow by Cai Yan, a poetess in the Eastern Han Dynasty), The bird misses the old forest, and the pond fish misses the old source (Tao Yuanming's Returning to the Garden has no vulgar rhyme), and "The south wind knows what I want and dreams of the west." Alone on a tall building, you can see the world all the way "(Yan Shu's" Butterfly Loves Flowers ")," In spring, there is no owner, and the cuckoo cries, and tears are stained with rouge rain "(Chen Zilong in the Ming Dynasty" Little Red Lips? Spring breeze melts rain "), and so on. Materialism holds that any consciousness is a dynamic reflection of objective things in people's minds. Therefore, we can think that the "empathy phenomenon" in poetry creation is the result of the dynamic and creative reflection of human consciousness on objective things.

In this paper, the author intends to discuss the "empathy phenomenon" of poetry from three aspects in order to teach generous families:

First, the "empathy phenomenon" caused by "association"

In the rich and complex thinking activities of mankind, those concrete and vivid associations can produce "empathy" more than those simple and abstract rational associations. In poetry creation, the association generated by the poet's time perception, space experience or similarity can often promote the "empathy phenomenon".

(1) The so-called perception of time refers to the poet's ability to turn his thoughts and wisdom into the inner experience of life by virtue of time in the process of creation, that is, by virtue of time, he can realize the poetic feeling and the perception of life existence. "The feeling of time can be said to be a very sensitive and thoughtful antenna of China's poetic artistic thinking. Dig deep into the inside story of life. " (Hu Xiaoming's "The Spirit of China's Poetics" Jiangxi People's Publishing House) In the perception of time, poets often connect appearances in a unified way of time, thus generating association in time sequence, and further promoting the emergence of "empathy phenomenon".

Spring is a season full of vigor, beauty and beauty, and poets are particularly full of natural beauty and self-sufficiency. Therefore, the "empathy phenomenon" caused by spring association is more common in poetry. For example, Zhang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a lyric poem "Flowers on the Spring River in jathyapple", saying: "It's a pity to wander upstairs and under the moon, leaving someone to make up the mirror. I can't be wrapped in the curtain of Yuhu Lake, so I have to smash it on the anvil and return it. " Due to the application of "empathy", the objective scenery in the poem is endowed with human touch. Yue Ming expressed deep sympathy for the lonely heroine in front of the dresser upstairs and could not bear to leave. This poem is an excellent combination of truth and scenery, and it is worthy of being a typical work of "thinking well and thinking together". Another example is Wang Changling's "funeral march" in the Tang Dynasty: "Young women in boudoir don't know how to worry, and they put on their makeup in spring. Suddenly I saw the willow color on the stranger's head and regretted teaching my husband to find the marquis. " The poem describes a young woman in a boudoir, who dresses up in spring and goes to the Cuilou. Suddenly, she saw the verdant willows on the road, which produced many associations about early spring, so she was worried about her husband's deep yearning for the war and secretly regretted that she should not have let her husband join the army to seek fame. Because of the conciseness and jumping of the poem, the association of the young woman suddenly seeing the strange willow color in the poem is not much to talk about, so that readers can imagine and supplement it. When readers appreciate it, they can imagine the changes of young women's thoughts: from willow color to spring, scenic spots, sunshine,