On the Imagery of Ancient Chinese Poetry in Wai-lim Yip's Comparative Poetics

LIU Yabin

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236206

Volume 6 Issue 2

Jun. 2023

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LIU Yabin. On the Imagery of Ancient Chinese Poetry in Wai-lim Yip's Comparative Poetics[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 96-107. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236206

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LIU Yabin. On the Imagery of Ancient Chinese Poetry in Wai-lim Yip's Comparative Poetics[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 96-107. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236206

LIU Yabin. On the Imagery of Ancient Chinese Poetry in Wai-lim Yip's Comparative Poetics[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 96-107. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236206

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LIU Yabin. On the Imagery of Ancient Chinese Poetry in Wai-lim Yip's Comparative Poetics[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 96-107. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236206

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On the Imagery of Ancient Chinese Poetry in Wai-lim Yip's Comparative Poetics

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236206

LIU Yabin^,

Zhejiang International Studies University

Received Date: 2023-03-26
Accepted Date: 2023-05-15

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Imagery is an important subject in the study of Chinese traditional poetics and aesthetics. Meanwhile,in the writing practice and poetic theory of modern Western poetry, symbolism, imagism etc. have also been influenced by ancient Chinese poetry, which has made imagery a hot topic in comparative poetics again. As a scholarpoet, Wai-lim Yip writes poetry under the influence of modern symbolism in both China and the West,and has a preference for ancient Chinese poetry,its imagery and its techniques. At the same time, Wai-lim Yip makes a profound study of the poems and poetic ideas of Ezra Pound,who was the leader of the Imagist movement. Imagery is situated in different language systems in China and the West,especially within the framework of grammatical comparison. The poetics of grammar and the cultural "model" advocated by Yip reveal the characteristics of structuralism. The differences between Chinese and Western grammar demonstrate the flexibility of Chinese language, and the spatial,static and visual effects of poetic imagery are known for their direct presentation of natural phenomena,which differs from Western translations in emphasizing time,logic,narrative and various artificial grammatical rules. In fact,the imagery of Chinese poetry has temporality,aiming to break through the limitations of spatiality and locality, transcend history and space, and express the universal emotional and spiritual demands of humanity in the unity of time and space. The content created by self-contained images includes the narrator, events and behaviors. In ancient Chinese poetry, the combination of dynamic and static, the coexistence of virtuality and reality, the unity of scene and action are integrated. Meanwhile events and actions are Ariadne's thread for readers to enter the aesthetic world and understand imagery and emotional expression in the poetic context. Although traditional poetics tries to convey feelings and meanings with imagery, it also uses finite conjunctions for creating scenes and presenting pictures. As a matter of fact, Wai-lim Yip's grammar poetics should move towards imagery poetics,clarify the characteristics and essence of Chinese poetry from the perspective of traditional culture, and present the global value of Chinese poetics.
- Wai-lim Yip,
- Comparative Poetics,
- Ancient Chinese Poetry,
- Imagery

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