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XU Zhimo's Poetics: a Speech on the 2nd China(Haining)Symposium of XU Zhimo's Poetry Festival

XU Zhimo is an excellent poet and an original poetic theorist. He holds that poem is the soul of poet and the singing of
poet's spirit. Poem is the highest level of language. And the soul of poem is musical. Poetry writing cannot do with only inspiration, it
needs artistic consciousness as well. Nature endows man with sight, hearing and feeling for observation, listening and thought, and
imagination as a latent realization is also important. With all these abilities can a poem be successful.   

  1. Literature Federation of Yunnan, Kunming 650031, China
  • Received:2012-10-25 Online:2013-01-15 Published:2013-01-15

Abstract:

XU Zhimo is an excellent poet and an original poetic theorist. He holds that poem is the soul of poet and the singing of
poet's spirit. Poem is the highest level of language. And the soul of poem is musical. Poetry writing cannot do with only inspiration, it
needs artistic consciousness as well. Nature endows man with sight, hearing and feeling for observation, listening and thought, and
imagination as a latent realization is also important. With all these abilities can a poem be successful.

Key words: XU Zhimo, poetic theory, imagination

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