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A Study of the Poet Lu Xun

Woo Kwang Jung 1

1숙명여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to illustrate the aesthetic characteristics of Lu Xun’s poems, especially focusing on his classical poems, and the prose poems in Wild Grass 野草 excluded. Lu Xun played an important role in the development of classical Chinese poetry during his lifetime, writing not only some eighty surviving poems but also different styles and forms. His artistic achievement is superb and has a special significance in that his poems reflect the spirit of the age. This study also focuses on analysing three aesthetic characteristics that appear in Lu Xun’s poems, and therefore this contains three parts, together with introduction and conclusion. Part One examines his unique poetic characteristic that his poems are full of not only sincere and guileless sympathy for the oppressed compatriots but also his ardent patriotism. Part Two explores his second aesthetic characteristic that his poems symbolize his rebellious spirit against the facing reality, through which his poems can achieve a successful shape and very effectiveness. Part Three analyze his third aesthetic characteristic that his poems use lots of satiric and witty expressions for conveying his merciless socio-political criticism, and this third aesthetic characteristic is a hallmark of Lu Xun’s poems.

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