Outline of the Story of Guo Moruo's Goddess

The outstanding artistic feature of Goddess is its strong positive and romantic atmosphere. In Goddess, the poet describes life not according to its true colors, but according to his own subjective imagination, ideals and enthusiasm. The fanatical pursuit and praise of ideals and the future is more than the calm and meticulous portrayal of the dark and corrupt reality. However, the romanticism in Goddess is not divorced from reality, but rooted in the soil of reality. Its sturm und drang spirit of destroying everything and creating everything fully expressed the thoughts, feelings, wishes and demands of the people during the May 4th Movement, especially the awakened young intellectuals. If Lu Xun laid the foundation of China's modern novels with his battle Scream, then Guo Moruo opened a new world of China's modern poetry with his rebellious and creative Goddess. In terms of expression, Goddess uses romantic techniques such as bold imagination, ingenious conception, strange association and extreme exaggeration to express the poet's volcanic passion and beautiful ideal. In terms of language, it not only uses colloquial language, but also uses ancient and modern Chinese and foreign words to describe people. It is determined to innovate and has strong subjective feelings, so the language of poetry is not only extremely rich, but also very vivid, colorful and expressive. In order to express warm feelings, the poet also uses sentence patterns such as overlapping sentences and parallel sentences to form a fast rhythm, thus forming a high style of poetry. In the form of poetry, the poet made many bold creations. In order to break all the old poetic forms and reflect new ideological content, the poet successfully created an eclectic free poetic style. The poet also created a poetic drama combining poetry and prose, lyricism and narration, which opened up a new field of poetry creation. In a word, the positive romanticism in Goddess is influenced by western positive romanticism and China classical romanticism, and it also shows Guo Moruo's unique artistic personality, that is, the romantic passion of loving the motherland and pursuing light is closely combined with strange expression techniques such as imagination, metaphor and exaggeration, forming an unrestrained artistic style.