Poetization refers to an aesthetic trend of novel creation, which is mainly manifested in the writer's emotional analysis of artistic images and poetic description of social life. The main body of novel form is composed of poetic artistic conception and symbolic image thinking.
Poetic novels do not pay attention to narrative function, do not shape characters with plot conflicts, but pay attention to creating artistic conception. Either as a whole or as a poetic local description. With the metaphor, symbol and subjective emotion of poetry, time and psychology are integrated, the plot is diluted and full of poetic beauty of philosophy.
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Historical Origin of Poetic Novel:1Since the middle and late 9th century, a new novel, Poetic Novel, has appeared in Europe.
Grassland is a novella by Chekhov, a Russian writer. Ehrenburg thinks this novel "actually constitutes a long poem". Contemporary scholars trace back to the origin of the trend of Russian poetic novel creation at that time, and think that Turgenev's poetic prose, Hunter's Notes and other short stories, Spring Tide and First Love, are already "poetic novels".
By the end of 19, this so-called poetic novel had accelerated its development in the context of the prevalence of French symbolism, and continued until the beginning of the 20th century. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Proust's Memories of Time Past further expanded its influence and momentum.
This kind of "poetic novel" is different from narrative poems or poetic novels, telling stories and portraying characters in poetic language. From Homer's Iliad and Odyssey to Pushkin's yevgeni onegin, there is a great tradition in the history of European literature.
"Poetic novel" is actually a poetic novel. Virginia Woolf clearly declared in her The Narrow Bridge of Art: "We long for ideals, dreams, imagination and poetry."
Therefore, David Lodge, an English novel theorist, concluded: "Modern novelists find that they rely more and more on the creative skills that belong to poetry, especially symbolic poetry."