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The Hometown Complex of Poets

Author: CaoRanXia
Tutor: LuShuYuan
School: Suzhou University
Course: Literature and Art
Keywords: hometown complex poet nostalgic poem ecology returning
CLC: I106.2
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract

“All arts themselves are all poems by their very nature’’said Heidgger“and the Bounden duty of poet are nostomania”, it seems to have a certain more natural and closer links among nostalgia, poet and poetry. Poet’s nostalgia is condensed to hometown feelings, which is universal mental consciousness and emotional intention of the human, and it is the motif for literature, and the main content to poetic expression. Therefore, it is very typical to research the theory generation, significance and aesthetic implication of poet’s nostalgia, made the poet and poetry as the pointcut.This article will make deeper analysis and research of poet’s nostalgia with eco-critical theory and method. The article includes the following three chapters: Chapter I will make a systematic explanation to the meaning of the hometown , following analysis of the underlying factors of geographical, psychological, cultural, historical, spiritual, etc caused poet’s nostalgia and the specific expression in poetry. In different countries and national literary history, nostalgic poetry has given readers unlimited aesthetic pleasure and touching.Chapter II will focus on analyzing the various rules of modern industrial civilization as well as the mental state of modern people under these rules, and our hometown has taken place alienation in this modern industrial environment, the poet can not find their spiritual sustenance to bailment. With the accelerated pace of modernization, we have to face this reality: environmental pollution, ecological damage, urban and rural opposition, individual alienation, the poet to escape, poetry degenerated, literary slump, spiritual void ... ... our hometown is no longer as bright and cordial as the past, poet’s gloomy mood is spread and nostalgic poems bring more sense of loss and morose to the people.Chapter III will analyze shortcomings from the the philosophy view of human culture at disenchantment times, pointing out that the human and the nature will be re-settlement, literature will return to the nature once again, that is the beginning of natural reenchantment, and that also is, the arrival time of Human Ecology. However the ultimate goal of this paper poetry is calling for the return of the literature spirit and reconstruction of the ecological human spirit by analysis of nostalgic significance.

The Hometown Complex of Poets

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